[Dustin Parsons]

Sounds like you have it set correctly, Panasonic cameras shoot at 60FPS and flag every 24th frame for capturing – so the codec will still read DVCPro HD 720p60 even though the footage was captured at 23.98FPS.

In Quicktime’s General Preferences do you have Enable Final Cut Studio Color Compatibility checked? If not, this could be why your H.264 isn’t showing up with the correct gamma.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Interesting, I’ve never heard of that program but it sounds quite powerful. I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

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[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks for the speedy reply! Sorry, I guess it was pretty stupid to have specified “within FCP”.

Basically, the reason I ask is because I know that with FCP 7 you have the option of exporting using File > Share… which sends your timeline to Compressor (letting you continue to work in FCP), however, as far as I know there is no option for using Share… without going through the trouble of creating a Compressor setting to have the same specs as your FCP Sequence.

Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks again.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Assuming this footage had perfect white balance before, it looks like they used the 3-Way Color Corrector and moved the Black Color Balance Controls towards blue/purple and the White Color Balance Controls towards green/blue.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Yeah… I just double checked to make sure I was doing it correctly, still didn’t work. I still feel like I’m not doing something right seeing as it’s working for you. I’ll give it another shot tomorrow and let you know if I have any luck.

I agree, there should be an option to reveal any file in the Finder, Browser, or any Sequences they reside. Hopefully we’ll see this in the future.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Oh thanks, I actually need to update my demo reel, everything on there is over a year old… well, I’ll do it when I’m looking for a job.

Anywho, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it appears that the sequence will only show up in the find results if the media you are searching for is online. D’oh! The developers aren’t making this easy on us.

Any and all other suggestions are welcome. Thanks again Alex – whether this question gets solved or not, I’m definitely learning a lot.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks for the quick response Alex. I thought I had checked the Forget Files button but I guess I was just hitting cancel (sorry, rookie mistake) – so that cleared up the render files.

The search method works for finding missing media ONLY if it exist in the FCP Browser. I, however, have missing media that exist ONLY in a sequence (like I had dragged an image from Finder directly into the timeline). Do you have a method for searching Sequences that contain missing media?

Thanks again.

[Dustin Parsons]

Sorry for the delayed response. Turns out all I had to do is uninstall and reinstall the AJA software.

I layed off to tape 4 times with those settings without issue so… I don’t know, it worked for me.

Thanks for the quick response.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Make sure that Audio Scrubbing is turned on – this can be found in the menu under View or you can toggle it on and off by hitting Shift+S.

As far as breaking the 30 minute episode up into multiple sequences, I agree with Todd; it really depends on your style of editing. I duplicate and number my sequences throughout the day as I work so I’m comfortable putting everything on one timeline because I know I can’t screw thing up to where it’s not salvageable.

I don’t see any problem spitting scenes up into their own timelines but I would suggest that, before you start, you should develop a workflow for keeping things organized. The longer the project, the more opportunity there is for things to get convoluted and confusing.

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[Dustin Parsons]

Turns out I should have been using FCP’s Chroma Keyer, it has much more control than the Color Key and for my purposes it’s getting the job done.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

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