Dennis Leppell
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Go to user preferences—->editing tab.
on the lower right corner of the window is a check box next to “Always scale clips to sequence size”. Uncheck this. Test and report back
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definately clear space on your hard drive. You always want to have at least 10-15% available free space on a drive, no matter its purpose.
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or use a 422 controller dongle and pass the signal thru a DVCAM deck like the Sony DSR-45
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i’m a fan of motionloops.com
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I’ve had this on occasion….click the drop down menu for “View” in the grey box above where the posts would be, and select anything other than what’s already selected.
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a slight deviation of what David said….number the images in playback order in a folder to drag into FCP….except before you do that, go to the User Preferences/Editing tab and adjust the default still duration to your desired length per image. THEN bring the images in FCP and drop onto the timeline.
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I’m still not sure why keyframes are moving when you paste. Are they still where they need to be in the footage, only the footage has slipped a few frames/seconds?
I know you said originally that nesting isn’t an option, but maybe it’s worth a shot, at least to test/workaround. Here’s what I’d do.
Duplicate your sequence, and name the dupe to *name*-nested.
Highlight a section that needs to be moved, and go to Sequence / Nest. You may need to cut off some layers via in/out or razor tool (my preference)…don’t worry about that, things will realign in the end. A new sequence should appear in your browser, and those clips you had highlighted should be consolidated on your timeline. Rename the new sequence in you browser to ID it.
Open the new sequence on the timeline and play it back. Are the keyframes still in the right position. If yes, good. In the sequence that needs the material moved to, drag the nested sequence from the browser to the destination timeline. Again check the playback. Still good? if yes, rinse and repeat.
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You should be able to…though you may need to double check the scale on the SD material once done. I’d also recommend Magic Bullet’s Instant HD to make the SD footage look a lil better next to the HD stuff.
There may be some issues recapturing/reconnecting the source material….I’ve never tried what you’re about to do, but I do know there were concerns about the process when HDV first came available. Perhaps Tom or Dave will know better.
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if you move less tracks at once, do the keyframes stay intact? If not, can you copy one clip, paste into the new sequence, and then right click, paste attributes, basic motion. The center/scale/rotation information should be pasted to the new clip.
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My guess is you captured the media via the camera, and didn’t realize the ilink downconvert was turned on, meaning that the footage WAS HDV, but the camera automatically downconverted to SD during capture. Try this…if you have the source footage tapes, pop one of them into a standard def deck or camera….If it in fact is HDV, you shouldn’t be able to view the footage or even get timecode. If this is the case, change your sequence settings to DV NTSC and carry on. You may have to readjust the scale on the individual clips already on the timeline, but at least your cuts are still in place.