Don Greening
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Are you referring to markers? That would seem to be similar to what you’re asking about as far as imbedded tags are concerned. Markers will imbed verious types of information into both the video and audio tracks depending on how you want to use them. There is a Mark menu up at the top that contains several functions.
– Don
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DV NTSC footage usually defaults to interlaced. Go to the Browser, select one of your master clips, right or control click in the field order column. in the pop up menu change the field order to “none”. This won’t change the clip properties of anything in the sequence you’re working on now, so either go through the sequence and change each clip using the same method or just start a new sequence.
– Don
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[Tom Watson] “You mentioned “scaling each camera on it’s own track” which I guess is the way to go… Is this specifically called something so I can look it up? “
In your sequence you can stack all the camera tracks and sync them using whatever method you normally use: a camera flash or an audio hit, etc. Make sure “Image and Wireframe” is checked in the rightmost drop down menu at the top of the canvas window. Highlight one of your video tracks and the wireframe dimensions for that track become visible in the canvas. Take you selection tool and mouse over one of corners of your frame. The arrow will turn into a cross hairs tool. Press the option key (to constrain the frame’s proportions) click the mouse button and drag towards the centre of the frame. The image will shrink. Now centre your cursor in the middle of that smaller image and you can drag the whole image anywhere in the canvas window, which will reveal the next camera track below. Do the same for all your tracks, arranging them to size and placement, season to taste, and you’re done 🙂
– Don
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[Kevin Reopelle] “If you paste 16:9 HD video into your 4:3 SD sequence and then scale the video is this in effect a digital zoom on SD quality video, or is it zooming in on the original HD file?”
Do this with your master clip first by dragging/double-clicking it into the Viewer. Once you’ve finished your modifications then drag from Viewer to Canvas or timeline. You can right or control-click any clip in the Browser or the timeline and choose “Media Manager” from the pop-up. In the dialogue window that appears you can convert your HD clip to a DV clip from the drop down menu. This process uses Compressor for the down convert instead of FCP.
If your Viewer and Canvas windows are displaying DV footage at 100% and you drag an XDCAM EX HD clip into the Viewer you’ll see the percentage drop to 44%. If you drag the same HD clip directly into the DV timeline it will display at 100% in the Canvas window. This is because it’s now been converted for DV but hasn’t been rendered yet. So any panning, scaling, zooming, etc. you need to do should be done before it goes in the DV sequence. If you just need to do a 4:3 centre cut with your 16:9 clip and don’t need to put any moves on it just drag it straight from the Browser to the Canvas or Sequence
In addition to Walter’s advice make sure if you have progressive footage and it’s destined for a DV timeline that said timeline is also flagged as progressive.
– Don
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Somewhat off topic but still informative reading for aspiring film makers:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/language_of_film.html
– Don
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Good to hear. Thanks for posting back, Jordan.
– Don
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Can you contact me by email please? I want to send you a screen grab of my multiclip timeline and a setup guide so we can get this sorted out for you.
greening at shaw dot ca
– Don
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Are the out of sync flags on all tracks or just some of them? if only some, which ones?
– Don
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[Richard Lee] “that’s what I’ve done and yet the video and audio all show out of sync.”
That was happening to me too until I stopped deleting the multiclip audio from the timeline and just muted it instead. Also make sure that even though the multiclip audio is muted it has to remain linked to the multiclip video track so that it also gets cut when you change angles, otherwise you’ll get instant out-of-sync flags on each cut.
– Don
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[Richard Lee] “Surely there’s gotta be an easier way! “
Perhaps there is. Read the post at the link below and tell me if this workflow is something that works for you.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/987985
– Don