[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi to you both

Colorista II does work in FCP but it isn’t as easy to use or view as it is in AE.

Dave, are you suggesting that I change my sequence settings to 422 even though my footage was all shot as DV/SD, 24pa? If I understood that correctly, if I export self contained movies from that sequence timeline, will the footage fair better imported into AE? Colorista is very appealing to me at the moment because I can use shapes (mattes) to isolate very specific parts of the frame to color correct.

if I do import uncompressed movies into AE, what settings for the project should I use? and what settings should I use for sending it back out of AE without loss of quality?

Michael, thanks for the links. I’m pretty bummed out right now about the loss of quality issue betweenin a round trip between FCP and AE. I wasn’t aware of that at all.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks Jerry

I’ll try it when I have some time. We have a deadline for this coming Monday and I succumbed to working further on the project with the older version of the software, where everything is synced up very nicely.

Appreciate you input,

Happy (Hebrew) New Year to you

Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

So I guess you’re suggesting I recapture the whole tape?
That will take an hour, I can try that later. What do you think the chances of success are?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Well, I didn’t make subclips. What I did was create a sequence, drop my master, chop it up with blade and copy/paste the bladed clips into my project timeline. If the copied clips need further adjustment, I shorten/lengthen in the project timeline.

So now what I did, trying to follow your original instructions, was move the master clip folder so the clips now need to be reconnected. I right clicked on one of the clips in the timeline and selected “Capture.”

I now am getting a warning that:

“You are about to capture Non-Drop Frame media from a device currently detecting or configure for Drop Frame media. If you proceed, you may experience changes in logged in and out points, problems relinking media, or removal of master clip relationships.”

I must have made a mess of things somehow… I won’t proceed until I hear from you on this. Looks ominous…

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Ahhhh. I never did this before. So if you can have some patience with me, could you step me through the process? Is there some easy way to do this, or do I have to find each clip in question on the tape manually?

Many thanks,

Dorit

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Just in case I did understand you correctly. I took the media files out of their capture scratch folder and copied to the desktop. Trashed the media in the original folder and reconnected in FCP to the desktop folder.

Didn’t work 🙁

Are there any known problems with FCP projects working in 7.0.3, that function perfectly well in FCP 5.1.4?

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Jerry

I’m not sure I completely understand your suggestion. I understand moving the source .mov out of it’s folder and into another folder. Then are you suggesting I launch FCP, and reconnect the media, or are you suggesting I log and capture the full 1 hour tape again?

The one piece of info I neglected to write in my 1st email message is that all the source material is on a Drobo array.

Thanks for your help

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

I actually don’t know where/how to find the 60i setting on the DVX100a, could you step me through that? Unfortunateluy, I do not have Adobe, I’m working with FCP 7 only.

Thanks in advance,
Dorit

[Dorit Grunberger]

Thanks so much Dennis. The tutorial helped a lot.

[Dorit Grunberger]

Hi Dennis

Can you be more specific as to what to do in the limiter?
I’m hoping to avoid mining the books for this info, but I thank you for pointing me in a direction
Dorit