[Daone2007]

https://www.flip4mac.com/

for wmv into and out of FCP

[Daone2007]

A couple things.
1. you can bring a .swf file into FCP no problem.
2. You said you hand regular NTSC 720×480 footage. You need to work in the frame size of you smallest size media.

So what I would do is:

1. capture the HDV footage natively (make sure it’s set to anamorphic) create a matching seq and put it in.
2. then create a 720×480 NTSC seq (non anamorphic). Put your p30 in there, and drag the HDV SEQ into the NTSC DV timeline.
3. bring stills into the timleine.
4. make flash at 720×480 (make sure to compensate for title safe) and bring it in also (.swf or .mov)

hope this helps

[Daone2007]

Also try searching for a program called “spindown fix” it will stop your drives from auto sleep when they are idle… Ive had dropped frame print to tape sessions when a edit has 80% of the media on one external and 20% on another. If the 20% drive falls asleep, it wont power up fast enough for FCP to access the data.

[Daone2007]

First off… what frame rate did you record to tape in?

[Daone2007]

double-click it. it should open in the viewer.

[Daone2007]

Actually I heard, especially to get clean crisp text (if you used FCP for titling) …. to export to Quicktime and select uncompressed 10-bit. Even if you edit in a NTSC DV timeline. Supposedly it will export an uncompressed QT File… that you bring into compressor and let IT do all the compression. Also I like to export to QT as opposed to exporting straight to Compressor because then it ties up Final Cut while transferring each frame. I’ve tried this technique once and it did make my text elements crisper.