[Captain Mench]

There is actually a way to set the modifier amount in one of the preference setups. I’m not there right now, but if you hunt around you might be able to find it.

This way you can change Shift-Arrow from default 30 to 10.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Try Option-R.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

There are basically 4 ways to capture on the DVX and ALL FOUR go to tape as 29.97. It’s what happens before that you need to think about.

1) 30fps Interlaced — nice video look
2) 30fps Progressive — nice progressive look with no pulldown frames
THEN…

3) 24P… Gives a FILM LOOK while maintaining 29.97fps. Acceptable to broadcasters as the pulldown cadence is 3:2:3:2… the chips were recording 24 clicks a second but before it went to tape the little accountant mice inside the camera were adding frames together and combining them to give you a total of 29.97fps on tape.

4) 24PA… For use when your final version is to be 24fps DVD or Film. In this case the “camera still clicks away” at 24 per second but THIS time the little accountant mice add a different pulldown a 2:3:3:2 cadence called ADVANCED. This looks ugly when played back at 29.97 — interlaced/combined fields come at odd times to the eye. You want to get it back to 24 frames per second somehow. To do that, FCP will remove the ADVANCED PULLDOWN CADENCE on the fly during capture… or you can even do it later.

IF you shot 24P and still want to go to 24 fps for editing all hope is NOT lost. Bring it into Cinema Tools and have that remove the 3:2 cadence.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

The way I do this is to do the following:

Select timeline…

File
Export
Quicktime Movie
Dialog box comes up…
Make sure it says Quicktime Movie in the export and change the format below to BROADBAND HIGH

then,
Click the OPTIONS button
Click on SIZE and adjust the size to match the aspect ratio.

Close
Close

Let it go for a bit… will take a while. This gives you the h.264 format which is beautiful and at 480x??? will be about 3.5 megs per minute.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Sorry — I’m backing out of this thread… I’ve never recorded to DAT synced to video before so I’m in over my head.

Help is on it’s way I’m sure.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Interesting… Thanks. Didn’t know.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Throwing a broadcast filter on a nest is the most popular only because it is the easiest. It is FAR from being usefull. If you are worried about how the show looks as a whole you’ll need to get to each shot and adjust… making sure you are matching across shots. Slow and painful.

Or just nest and toss on the BS filter.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Keep in mind that there aren’t frames in Sound. Only samples per second for digital.

One second of sound will be one second of sound regardless of what your frame rate is going to be.

Good luck,

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

I assume you mean D5 as in HD video?

Well… what? If you shoot it in PAL 25fps then it will sit there in 25fps until you do something unnatural to it like send it thru some sort of standards conversion.

What?

Man, I still don’t understand your question.

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Ah. Bet it has a better chance of being real time too.

CaptM