Chad Brewer
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You could just export the whole sequence as a self-contained Quicktime and then you will have one video track and however many audio tracks you have married (linked) as one file.
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Where are the analog outs from the Blackmagic card going?
Also keep in mind if you’re capturing via firewire you won’t hear the audio going through the card while capturing because you’re not going through the card.Chad Brewer
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I do have a suggestion on this. Sorry it is days later, but still I hope it helps you in the future.
If your FCP sequence is having dropped frames while editing to tape under a fully rendered sequence, it may be because your system is not able to process an effect or a filter or a transition or what have you at that point while editing to the machine. To solve this in the future, export your finished, rendered timeline as a self-contained Quicktime and put it in a new sequence with the same settings as your exported file. Proceed to edit to tape as I described before and I bet you won’t suffer any dropped frames.Chad Brewer
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Green/Grey screen blips? Don’t know. Are you dropping frames during edit to tape? Is your sequence FULLY RENDERED? Under render settings, check everything to render.
As far as overmodulated audio, you need to understand the difference between digital audio (in FCP) and analog audio (your BetacamSP deck).
Outside of giving you a lengthy discussion about about the differences between digital and analog audio and how they correspond to one another since you’re in a pinch, adjust your audio in FCP so that your peaks on the BetaSP deck’s VU meters are between 0 and +3. Make your kilohertz tone in FCP for -20db which should land at or near around 0db analog on your deck. Average loudness on your analog deck should be around -3db to 0db analog with peaks not going over +3db for broadcast, but broadcast acceptability changes every day.
Adjust your audio in the viewer until it checks in correctly on the analog deck.
Hope this helps.Chad Brewer
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You should be selecting edit to tape, not print to video.
Stripe your tape with black/code that precedes the in-point of your sequence.
In the edit to tape window, set the in-point as the starting TC of your sequence.
Before any of this though, with the Blackmagic Extreme, like you said, set your downconversion processing in the BMD controls in your system preferences. Then change your video output in FCP to either 8 or 10-bit NTSC despite the sequence being HD. Also, make sure FCP’s device control is for 29.97 NTSC so that it will properly communicate with the BetaSP deck.
Print to video in FCP is primarily for outputting to DV devices.
Let me know if this solves your issue.Chad Brewer
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Or,
It shouldn’t have anything to do with your graphics card, but it could have something to do with your capture card, e.g. AJA, Blackmagic, etc. These cards have settings for black IRE setup and some input processing that if are not set to 7.5 IRE for black and other input processes are turned off then you could be seeing discrepancies.
Or,
Shane is right again.Chad Brewer
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[Audrey Villiard] “And on top of this, I would like this program to be free.”
I’m glad I was sitting down when I read this. If I was standing up, I would have fainted. Our company does a wide array of captioning and subtitling. FREE subtitling software? Do you know that there are thousands of companies whose only services are subtitling and captioning? Did you expect that Final Cut Pro and the Mac to run it on would be free too?
How do people these days expect to do high end work without making the investments for the high end tools to produce the high end results?
Free? I see days of FCP’s text tool in your future.Chad Brewer
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Matt,
Either commit $5000 to $25000 for doing this on your own or call us.
We can do the encoding for you and ftp the MPEG2’s to you. This is one of the many things we do that save our clients big headaches and big money.Chad Brewer
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Todd,
You can do point-to-point video with fiber optics.
Many TV stations and larger broadcast video houses like ours have VYVX (or a similar fiber provider’s) fiber lines installed. You can playout video at such a facility and it can be received at another facility that has a fiber line.
If you are looking to provide live video from a remote shoot though, you’ll need a KU-Band equipped truck (like the ones you see outside of sporting events, etc.) that will bounce the signal to a satellite and then back down to it’s end transmission point. Thus, it depends on what type of live video scenario you require. I know there are post houses here in Chicago with dedicated fiber lines so that you can shoot at their facility and feed it live via their fiber. There have to be places in California that have the same setup.
Hope that helps.Chad Brewer
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Sorry. Silly me. I meant the log & CAPTURE window follows the canvas size, not the log & transfer window. I believe the log & transfer window is always that small with all the inspection/status screens going on all at once. But alas, I could be wrong again. Being wrong is fun sometimes, other times, NOT!
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