[Dave Chavinsky]

I don’t think I recorded any reel numbers on this footage so that is probably the problem. The projects I’m editing are from a job I stumbled into barely have done any video editing.. so I didn’t really have a system or any idea what I was doing.

So, in the future, its really important to put reel numbers on everything during import to avoid this problem? They don’t put anything by default I suppose. Is there any way to put reel numbers to a batch of footage?

Also, all of my footage thats from a Motion4 project is missing. So, I go into each motion project find the source file and drag it over. Media Manager doesn’t copy assets from a Motion project? Would it fix this if for every Motion project I saved, I selected “Copy to Folder”? I haven’t been doing this.

I got Media Manager to work well enough, but I can’t use handles. If it has the whole source files, I guess the reel number doesn’t matter, maybe. I’m definately going to imput reel numbers from now on. This problem has been driving me insane for so long!! I really appreciate the tip and hope it does the trick.

Thanks!!!

[Dave Chavinsky]

Thanks Jerry,

That’s what I’ve been doing, so I’m glad to have confirmation that this is the best way.

Most of the videos I’ve been making are for a church that has an SD projector, so the settings of the timeline are SD, but the footage is HD. So if I “use current settings”, is my render going to use the SD settings, or will it render it out in full quality? I want the HD for portfolio purposes and to give the church a futureproof copy.

Perhaps my work flow is wrong, and I should edit in an HD sequence. Is “use current settings” the sequence settings?

[Dave Chavinsky]

Thanks Craig,

I figured it would be quite subjective. For our purposes, we’re streaming sermons that we want everyone to have the most access to. There are a lot of old people who wouldn’t have very good equipment.

The most universal format I suppose.

We’re switching to Adobe CS5.5 also. Is there a “Compressor” equivalent that comes with the adobe suite?

[Dave Chavinsky]

Wow, 8 virtual cores. That sounds awesome. Thanks for explaining that, Mark.

I was using a MacPro1,1 with similar stats. 4 cores that were each 2.66GHz and 6GB of RAM, and I was only offered 4 instances. Is my current computer I described above (MacPro4,1) going to be significantly faster with 8 virtual cores (or did the MacPro1,1 have this too and I was just unaware of it..)

How much RAM would you recommend that I get so I can use my cores effectively. I’m using Adobe CS5.5 with After Effects.

Thanks!!

[Dave Chavinsky]

Ok.. I figured it out.

I just needed to click the “linked selection” button on the top right part of my sequence.

disregard this post.
Thanks

[Dave Chavinsky]

Thanks for the tips Angie.

Helpful to know about how to check Alpha, but I’m still doing something wrong. In the Composition tab (large center part..), I see my background is a grid with white and grey squares. I’ve checked the Channel menu that shows my image in white and the background (empty part) in white.

So it looks like my Composition has the right Alpha. I exported as animation codec and I didn’t get the message about color values exceeding project’s color values.

I’m thinking it must be something in FCP7 to do with the Alpha channel of the clip. Maybe I need to post this in the FCP forum. Do you know FCP stuff Angie? (I’ve changed the alpha in “item properties” of the clip to “straight” but no luck.)

Anyone have advice or tips of how to.. tell FCP that there’s an Alpha channel?

Thanks!

[Dave Chavinsky]

Ok… that didn’t work…

I am getting a message when I render out that color depth exceeds project color depth. Is that the problem somehow?

In Output Module, in the Color area, should it be “premultiplied” or “straight”. I had it on straight before.

[Dave Chavinsky]

So if I have 60p footage that is in half speed so that its 30fps (over 2 seconds), and then I change the speed to 200%, final cut will drop 30 of the frames? Makes sense I just wasn’t aware.

Cinema tools is great. I’ve had 60p footage from the tm700 that I open in cinema tools from FCP7 and I’m not given the option to “conform”. its just greyed out. Any idea why this is?

Also, If I want it to playback slower, can I use cinema tools to change it to 24 fps, and then keep it the same speed, but use compressor to output it as 30fps for a timeline? Sounds kind of dumb.. but is similar to taking 720p footage and upresing to 1080 in compressor. Possible?

[Dave Chavinsky]

Hey Citlalli,

I use the same camera and clipwrap works great. The 60p footage looks significantly better, especially for shots with motion but is an annoying workflow delay.

If you want to use your 60p clips in a 30fps timeline, create a “droplet” in Compressor to change the frame rate. All 60 frames that you shot will still remain, but they will be played back over 2 seconds instead of one (30 frames per second = 60 frames over 2 seconds). So they play back in slow motion. Then you can change the speed of the clip in FCP to 200% for it to play back at regular speed.

If you have audio though, the frequency will be distorted even though the frames play back in real time.. which could probably be fixed but I don’t know how. And if it looks blurry, I always uncheck the “frame-blending” box in the change speed options. Change speed options are under, Modify menu –> change speed.

[Dave Chavinsky]

Cool, that’s what I figured, but wanted to check. Good point about avchd now doing 50p and 60p. What was 60p recorded in before? I always clipwrap it from .mts files

I have to shoot edit and burn in only a few hours so the step of going through clipwrap is just not fast enough for me. But I would like to use the 60p function of my camera for these projects. I’m not going to wait on FCP X though.. too many incomplete aspects of this program when it was released. I’m not investing any money there