[Don Mcvey]

Thanks! I’ll do that.

[Don Mcvey]

Hi,

If I shoot with an EX1 at 720/25p and 50fps will this give slow motion? If I put this in a 25p FCP timeline will it automatically be slow motion or do I have to do anything with the footage?

[Don Mcvey]

If I shoot at 720/25p and then set the overcrank in the EX1 to 50fps, will that not give me slow motion footage in camera? I thought that if I put this into a 25fps timeline in FCP it would automatically be slow motion.

Just like I imagine that if I shot at 1fsp, I’d get a timelapse. I am wrong here?

[Don Mcvey]

Great Tom! Really appreciate the advice. I do have one more question that just popped into my head.

If I’m shooting with an EX1 at 1080/25p and also want to do some slow motion at 720/50p, will both those pieces of footage go into the same timeline if I set the timeline to 1080p?

Also will FCP automatically make the 50p clip slow motion if the timeline is set to 25fps?

This stuff really confuses me 🙁

[Don Mcvey]

Thanks Tom. That seemed to work great. Quick question. Why change the audio and what does changing the Fram Controls to ON do? Also is this method better than using the media manager in FCP itself?

Have a few other questions. If I shoot on a Sony EX1, am I best to edit with this format natively or convert it to ProRes. If I do edit natively and want to add some canon 550d H.264 footage to the timeline later, will this be a big problem. Basically, can you edit EX1 native footage and Prores in the same timeline?

Final question. I’m going to back up any raw footage from cards on external drives but what’s the best way to back up the actual FCP project once I start to edit? I don’t need to back up that often, just every few hours or so. Can I just copy the entire project across onto an external drive if I’ve put all media, waveforms, autosaves etc in one project folder?

Sorry for all the basic questions but I’m a cameraman first and only just got my own editing setup.

[Don Mcvey]

Thanks for the great response Tom. I’ll try that and get back with results.

[Don Mcvey]

Thanks for your help guys. Here’s a snapshot of the quicktime info after I’ve converted it in Compressor:

Gary – I’m quite new to log and transfer as I’ve mostly edited with tape in the past. I thought you needed to transfer from a card for this to work, like an SxS or SD card? I actually tried to do the log and transfer with the clips I downloaded, but they are just files in a folder. Here’s the message I get when I try:

Thanks for all the great help!!!