[Dan Riley]

Really dude..
we’ll help you out if there is an issue but you’ve got to do some
of your own work first. Read your manual.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Forgot to mention,
my shows are 4 or 5 camera multicam (simultaneous timecode)
and I’m capturing at DV for the offline.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I’ve used the multicam feature for three 1/2 hour shows now.
I start out by digitizing at DV level. I make my multiclips
and do my offline that way. I also used clips that aren’t from
multicam studio stuff, they are just regular clips.
Then I uprez to 10 bit uncompressed
to output to DigiBeta. Media manager works ok as long as:
-you don’t have speed changes, including reverse.
-you don’t have many still frames. I say “many” because
sometimes they come through on the uprez and sometimes
they don’t and you have to redo them. A pain.
-you don’t have any nested effects. Media Manager don’t lilke them.

Dissolve, wipes, DVE effects come through fine too.
But not if you have added a matt fill. Media manager
can’t seem to keep track of that. So I’ve stopped doing
many effects in the offline line. I just uprez sooner.

As far as the multiclip angles etc., I haven’t had any problem
with Media Manager picking the correct footage. Make sure
you check the box that asks if you want to uprez all the
angles or only the one you used. I only uprez what was used
in the offline. This box will come up when you doing the
Media manager process.

As for loading in 10 bit clips for use in multiclips, it would
probably be ok for two cameras. Maybe more. I’ve never
used FCP that way. I use a dual 2.5gig G5 and a 4 drive
SATA RAID with the Sonnet 4+4 card.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Michael.
That did the trick

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Bogiesan,

Why not bring the exported clip into an uncompressed sequence?
Wouldn’t that look better than rendering it down to DV?
Wouldn’t the export to DVDSP would look better?
Is there some reason it’s better to go to DV in this situation?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

I tried it today. Worked great.
I put a slug, 10 frames before the end of the segment,
on a new top layer v10 and put a 10 frame dissolve on it.
I took all the other dissolves off all the other layers.
This did exactly what I wanted. The whole
shibang dissolves down together without seeing
through any DVE boxes to the background.

Learn something new everyday if I’m lucky.
Thanks all for your help.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

so instead of putting my next event (studio camera) up on top,
and doing an down/up dissolve to that, I put a slug up there
and dissolve to that and out of the studio camera which would be on V1.
Sounds reasonable. I’m not at work right now but will try it
tomorrow. Both ideas I like much better than nests.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

We have five machines. We use a batch panel to give the AVID
or FCP control of which ever machine we want. But two
machines looking at the AVID or FCP at the same time?
Isn’t there a back and forth going on between where the
machine is and where FCP thinks it is? I mean it’s not just
FCP telling the DigiBeta what to do is it? Isn’t it also
asking the DigiBeta what it’s doing? And if so, how could it
know what machine to get to do what it wanted it to do?
I don’t think FCP has protocols for that.
At least this is the way it used to work with our CMX and Sony
computer editing suites. Each machine was rolled and locked
independently, then a frame accurate edit could happen.
Otherwise it’s just roll and hope for the best.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

cool, I like this idea. I wanted to find a way I didn’t have to nest.
Nesting is problematic for me because my offlines are pretty
involved and they always are uprezzed at some point.
Media management is trouble enough without adding nests.

Most of the time my situation is ending a commercial where
the tag screen is 9 layers of video, titles, backgroud,
credit cards, etc. Then I want to go down to black and
up to the next segment. I could put my next studio segment camera
on V10 for a few seconds and then drop it down to
V1 on the next camera change. That would work perfectly.

Thanks Matt.
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Walter,
It will roll and sync both machines to FCP…frame accurate?

Dan