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David Fielding
May 8, 2018 at 9:49 pm in reply to: Syncing audio – Resolve 14

You’re so right and I do have a slate/clap. I was managing the two cameras, audio, lighting. This shoot was what you’d call a ‘mindfullness/meditation’ session with yogi folks (secondary content for a vlog). A clapboard might have disrupted the meditation a bit. It was 1.5 hours. My Sony a7RII and Canon 5DIII suck as production cameras.
David Fielding
May 2, 2018 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Syncing audio – Resolve 14

PluralEyes was definitely worth the investment when I was using Premiere. Now we use Resolve, which doesn’t have as good sync’ing methods particularly if your devices don’t all use timecode. As a solo videographer managing two DSLR cameras in separated locations, plus audio and no slate (not practical in this situation), AND each camera with rec time limits, I ended up a couple big gaps in my A camera (for a 1hr 40 min shoot). Audio was continuous, but Resolve couldn’t sync it. After a lot of frustration attempting to match waveforms, I imported everything into PluralEyes and exported to Premiere where I could either export each of the A and B cameras (as proxy to speed up the export) or mark the timecodes for each camera IN/OUT.

My production method was obviously flawed, resulting in more time in post attempting to fix it. But, I’m working alone with a Sony A7rII and Canon 5DmkIII, neither of which is a good production camera (although video quality is very nice). It was a favor shoot for a friend and it always helps to discover weaknesses in your system when it doesn’t matter so much.

Perhaps there was a better method in post, but the PluralEyes>Premiere proxy was the best idea I could come up with at the time (this morning after sleeping on it).
David Fielding
July 8, 2011 at 1:49 pm in reply to: render files disappear when i close sequence.

My problem was one of process (and ignorance). I hadn’t used FCP in a while and realized I had to Log & Transfer my Canon 5D H.264 files. Prior to the recent Canon firmware update, the entire file/folder structure had to remain intact. With the update, you can just Log & Transfer the .mov files from any folder. This Log & Transfer process has always been a complaint with FCP users, having to ingest clips as ProRes format.

That’s my novice description of the issue anyway.
David Fielding
May 26, 2011 at 5:57 pm in reply to: render files disappear when i close sequence.

David, thanks for the being so quick on response. The codec is H264 from a Canon 5D mkII 1920×1080 24fps. My FC sequence is 1280×720 24fps ProRes 422HQ. Perhaps part of my issue is one of process. I imported the raw video files into my project directly. Should I have used a log & transfer?
David Fielding
May 25, 2011 at 8:34 pm in reply to: render files disappear when i close sequence.

In FCP 7.03, I am trying to manually render each section of a sequence in the timeline to get around Out of Memory errors. I am having to break up video clips into more manageable chunks. So, I will do a number of sections and the render bar changes to purple. When I close the sequence or quit FCP, I open it again and the render bar goes back to red in some of the sections I have done. Save>All is just not saving all.

I’ve been trying to export this movie for two weeks with no luck. It will get to 75% (probably only up to the area I have rendered manually in the timeline).