[Dave Johnston]

Bob –

I’m out of office for a while but I’ve got all this and will give it a go when I get back.

I really appreciate your help – it’s a lonely place, Discreet Edit Island…

dave

[Dave Johnston]

Bob –

I’m still faffing about with this! FcpReconnect didn’t resolve my immediate problem, so now I’m recapturing from the master clips bin generated from a Grass Valley 7 edl (which seems to retain as much clip info as any). As far as I can see it’s recapturing the entire source tapes rather than individual clips, and I’m not sure why – but that’s what I want it to do anyway…

I have a lot of stuff in Edit and would be delighted to hear your Edit Bin to FCP solution, because it’s getting to the moment when I have to say bye bye to my favourite NLE. I still think Edit is brilliant and have never felt so betrayed as when it was dropped by Discreet.

So yes, please, try to remember.

Dave

[Dave Johnston]

Thanks for the steer.

I have already captured the material in FCP at ProRes422, using the same reel numbers as used in the Discreet system. So the edl exported from Discreet references the same reel numbers and tc as the ProRes422 material – I just can’t seem to link the clips in the edl to the ProRes422.

It sounds like FcpReconnect might be able to do this, and I see that there is a demo version to try it out.

If I can reconnect the edl clips to the ProRes422 I can use the original edit as the basis for further editing – hence wanting to recapture all of the original camera tapes…

I’ll give the FcpReconnect demo a go.

Dave

[Dave Johnston]

Ged –

This is great – thankyou – trying to find specific things in the absence of printed documentation is hopeless and I was floundering.

I think this will resolve the ioHD issues I’m having – but I might pick your brains some more if I fall into any more potholes.

Now if I can just get the ioHD to do the same thing twice…..

Dave

[Dave Johnston]

Gary – thanks for the comment.

Yes, there is a SD to SD checkbox and the options are letterbox,pillarbox and H&V crop – none of which address my problem.

But you’ve given me food for thought.

I’m migrating from an analogue system where I’d feed component into my old Discreet Edit system, and the image filled whatever aspect ration I was working in… so I thought initially that perhaps my issue was with FCP rather than ioHD – but VTR Xchange seems to disprove this, as it offers no compatible conversion option from 625i25 to a 16:9 aspect. (The 4:3 image stays 4:3). My other experience is working in a FCP SD timeline, importing via firewire – and my “Widescreen” DVcam appears as “Widescreen” on the timeline.

I can import the AJA converted files and stretch them to 16:9 width in FCP – but is that not a strange workaround? Or do I just have to get my head around it?

My perception was that the ioHD would allow me to input my SD signal, up convert it to Apple ProRes 422 and work with it in a lossless environment.

So is that what I’m actually doing? But because SD (DVcam) is inherently 4:3 (even if anamorphically squeezed) I will have to stretch it to render it in HD aspect ratio?

Doh…

Dave