[Dan Riley]

Chuck,

That’s not the way to do mulitclips.
Assuming you don’t have similar timecode,
just go to each clip and pick a similar start point of reference,
like someone saying something or a musical note or whatever.
Mark those points as in points. Write down the timecode number.
Maybe back up from there 30 or 60 frames so you have handles.
Then make your multiclips from those inpoints.
You don’t need to do what you did. More work than necessary.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

32k sampling definitely is of lower quality and will result in a production
of lower overall audio quality. Of course sometimes you gotta do
what you gotta do, but in general I would hope experienced
video professionals would spend just a little more time giving
audio it’s due.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Let’s take this a step a time.

Your six channels of audio in your sequence can easily be made
into 4 channels. Go to sequence settings, audio outputs.
select 4 channels. Tell it whether you want dual mono or stereo.
Now go to the audio tracks on your sequence. Next to the track
in the grey area mouse click holding down the control key.
You then select where you want that audio track to go.
You can select any channel to go to any of those four audio channels.

DO NOT record 32k audio on a DSR 11. This is voice only quality at best.
It’s not to be used in a professional situation. It’s for low quality work.

DigiBeta can record 4 channels directly from FCP but you need a
video card from AJA or Blackmagic or Aurora.
Panasonic’s DVCPRO 50 deck can do it via firewire.
https://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=71646&catGroupId=14595&surfModel=AJ-SD93

Quicktime can have 8 channels of audio if you want
and an exported sequence from FCP can do this.
If you only need four that’s fine.
But you need to ask the dub house how they are going to
play back your quicktime file. Are they going to load it
into an FCP sequence?

If I were you, I’d call around to the post houses or dub houses
to see what your options are for bringing in a quicktime file
from FCP. If one says they do this, try a test file. Take it in to them
to see if it does what you need. Compare using this process
to renting a DigiBeta deck or a DVCPRO 50 deck.
It all depends on what tape your client is asking you to deliver on.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Well, making multiclips from subclips is not something I would do.
FCP and subclips are usually kind of iffy. In my opinion, you should have
logged each fight separately, not captured one big tape and then
made subclips. FCP is good at many things but media management
is not one of them. And when you make multiclips from subclips,
you are already asking FCP to follow your clip down extra levels of
media management. This is not necessary if you log each clip
separately then make the multiclip from your original clips.
This may or may not be what caused your errors
but why ask for trouble when a little better logging will
make your sessions much smoother overall?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Not sure I know what you are doing.
You don’t edit multiclips. You load a mulitclip into a sequence and edit the sequence.

If you are saying you edit a sequence that has one or more multiclips used in it,
then you nest that sequence into another one, then edit that one,
now you are talking trouble. I would not recommend doing that.
And why would you do that? Just edit the sequence itself and copy it
into whatever other sequence you want to create.

Nesting more than once is not advisable.
Nesting is fine for effects or added a filter to an entire sequence at once,
but for general editing, it’s not a good idea.

Am I not getting what you are doing?
Dan

[Dan Riley]

It’s called CatDV.
It’s only $79 for the standard edition and it’s Mac/Intel and Windows.
It’s pretty much exactly what I need.
Of course it does MUCH MORE than I need for this application
but so be it. With this, the client, on his PC can either import
downloaded files into CatDV or I can burn a
CD or DVD full of h.264 files, FedEx it, and he can import them all at once.
I has JKL control too.

It also has scene detection and logging.
I can export clips to h.264 too, and add a timecode super.
Not that I wanted it for this, but it’s nice that I don’t have to have FCP do it.

Overall, the entire evening was beginning to be a big waste of time.
I thought I WAS NOT going to be able to solve this problem of
people being able to see clips with timecode WITHOUT window burns.
But now I’ve found a great new tool.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I just downloaded that one an hour ago.
I loaded a DV file and it too does not display timecode.
It starts all files at 00 00 00

All my files were captured with FCP.
They all show timecode if I open them in the Sebsky tools player.
Are my files unusual?
Do others see actual file timecode with the above mentioned player
and with the Quicktime player?
This is driving me nuts.
All I want to do is allow my PC client to view my FCP-captured files on his PC without
having to do a burn. Do I have to buy Premiere for him?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

No it does not.
Try it.
It says 00 00 00 00

I’ve always known how to see the video and audio track info from
show movie properties. I need it to display while playing back.
Only Sebsky player does it as far as I can tell, and that’s not Windows.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

It’s a Live monitoring tool AND a recording tool.
Excellent quality audio performance.
Anything that puts out audio in you Mac can be hijacked
and played out for monitoring and recording.
Try it. You will love it. I think it has a free trial too.

As for the guy who needs a processor, I played around with another one
that works better for his use, the AUDynamicsProcessor.
Set it to HARD.

dr

[Dan Riley]

Walter,
Look into SuperDuper. Works great for auto backups.
I have it set to look at my media RAID at night, to see what
needs to be added to my firewire drive backup. Use Smart Backup
to only add the new stuff.
It only backs up from one source to another at a time though.
But for me that’s not a problem.

Also, you said 1TB of stuff took only an hour to transfer from your
LaCie to your new RAID? It takes me about 90 minutes per 100 gigs
to transfer, and that’s using SATA RAID to 800 Firewire.
But I’m on a G5 2.5 dual. Is your Mac Pro that much faster at transfers?

Dan