Chi-ho Lee
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Dave,
I see where you’re coming from but I gotta agree with Gary on this one. But alas, I’ve also been conditioned to wear clothes in front of people, chew with my mouth shut, and not fart in front of other people.
CHL
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Emma,
There is nothing I would LOVE more than to shoot and edit at 25! I wish we can all shoot and edit at 24P actually!
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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It’ amazing how people come here and EXPECTS all the other professionals in the world to give them a 3 page details answer to their questions. And often times, they are not regular contributors here.
Here’s one…
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I need to composite a gorilla on my 1945 VW. I have Final Cut Pro and Motion and a rubberband. Please give as much detail as possible.
——–And not even a Thanks!
It’s time to make this a paid forum. Even something as little as $30/yr will weed out a lot of leechers and immature/rude filmmakers.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Are you using the latest version of FCP? Because FCP should be smart enough to adjust for this in the aspect ratio parameter of the motion tab should you forget. If you adjust aspect ratio to -12.5%, it will turn your logo back to circular. Again, FCP will usually adjust for this if you forget to make the adjustment in Photoshop. It has always done it in my experience.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Just to be clear, only the sections with effects require rendering right?
Short of getting the fastest mac, there is not much you can do to speed up rendering. Though you should only need to render at the end of the edit. You should lower the RT quality so you can edit and experiment with effects without having to render.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Do you mean render time for effects? Or do you need to render for just regular cuts only playback – if that’s the case, then your editor doesn’t know what he’s doing in FCP since cuts only playback in XDCam is always real time. Effects will be longer to render since XDCam is mpeg2 format like HDV.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
The frame where the edit ends after your Extend Edit is only long enough to make a 1 frame dissolve. Don’t extend so far and your dissolve can stay at 20f.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
[bruce alan greene] “There are a few issues:
I would like to shoot at 23.98 FPS for lighting/flicker reasons.
I have suggested that the footage be captured via firewire to external hard drives and downcoverted to mini dv for dailies simultaneously by a post house.
Why downconvert at all? DVCPro HD is a easy format to capture and edit in natively via firewire capture.
I think the editor would ideally like the sound recording (when shooting double system) to have the same time code as the captured footage. What is the best way to do this as I believe the Varicam always uses 30/29.98 timecode even when shooting at 24/23.97 FPS. If we shoot at 24 or 23.97 what timecode will be on the captured footage?
Double check with your rental house but I believe your audio recording should run at 29.97 since your final video footage will be 23.98. This is an easy question for your rental house to answer. On another note, why double system? You’re making it a lot more work for post with double system. You can feed the audio to the camera as well as an external recorder. Use the external recordings/DAT as a back up. HD Audio can be record as 24 bit these days – just as good a DATs or Devas.
The current version of FCP will accept BWF. This may help your situation with timecode.
FCP can capture 25fps fine via FW but 23.98 is your best bet for NTSC and PAL outputs.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Is your playback set to High? Full frame rate?
Experiment with Frame blending. I sometimes find frame blending off yield better result than with it on.
Good luck.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Install it on another partition. That’s the best way to go. Avid is always a bit late adapting to new QT and OS updates (not their fault, they just don’t get advance notice).
But if you install on another partition, it works fine.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com