[Charlie Key]

I hear Clipwrap is useful for this

[Charlie Key]

For your own ease and sanity I would edit in the native format of the majority of footage (dv ntsc?), export in this format, then convert the final quicktime. Hopefully its all anamorphic dv so you have no aspect issues.

[Charlie Key]

Thanks Shane,

Sounds a bit of a pain to be honest and with four of them working constantly serving 6 editors and making 100’s of hours of programming a year i might pull my hair out! The tc issue and the clips over 20 minutes are particularly worrying…

We are now looking at the jvc gy-hm700e which shoots xdcam in mov files right onto the sd cards / hard drives, very appealing.

Just out of curiosity, what does clipwrap do exactly?

Thanks for the feedback.

[Charlie Key]

Brody,

Maybe you should go on an FCP course before condemning it. I wouldn’t like to pick up Vegas and just hammer away like I do in FCP because it obviously wouldn’t work the same. You need knowledge of the program and knowledge of the relevant workflow to get the maximum out of said program.
The title of your thread is hostile and misinformed ‘FCP vs Sony Vegas.. you’ve got to be kidding.’ There is no ‘vs’, thats why all these platforms and programs co-exsist, different strokes for different folks. To do a general comparison based on your particular needs is childish and as adults we really dont need this conversation. If Vegas works for you, stick to it.

Good luck with your projects.

[Charlie Key]

“If you rip a DVD you should be getting an standard file. Pal or NTSC, should play fine in MPGStreamclip. “

Thats what confused me, it plays OK in DVD Player app, but not in MPEG Streamclip. Otherwise, I would just chuck it in the bin!

Do you think i should just rip at 29.97 fps to NTSC Pal?

[Charlie Key]

That would assume that one is using tape wouldn’t it steve? And a conversion on capture is a simple prospect. I asked a different question about quicktimes and how that works.

[Charlie Key]

rigt click> send to> motion. then you can bezier mask and dupe the image underneath, thus gaining total control

[Charlie Key]

Hi Walter,

What exactly do you mean by this?

“The BEST way to do this is through a capture card such as the AJA Kona LHi or Kona 3. We do all day, every day going from 720 to 1080 or 1080 to 720 as needed. It’s a perfect broadcast quality conversion.”

Do you mean re-caputring from tape? Or doing this from a quicktime? I would use Mpeg streamclip / Compressor, but am curious to know a better way!

Also, does 1080i to 720p actually work? Does it create 25 individual fps from a bunch of interlaced ones?

Sorry if this is basic, just getting my head round it!

All the best,

Charlie

[Charlie Key]

right click> send to> motion

Much better smooth cam in there.. add a motion tracking behaviour (stabilise) and change the mode to zoom. highlight scale, rotation and the third option (i forget) and this will all the program to give you a much better result.

save, go back to fcp.. simples!

plus it gets one into roundtripping and using the whole suite with all the lovely features it offers

[Charlie Key]

BUMP! No one knows of a fake motion blur for final cut?