Edward Kulzer
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That’s just it— that’s “when they’re in the sequence”— this is the ‘Pre-Edit Binning of the assets for organization’ step, and I’m looking to do it within the Browser. If you apply the Distort to the clips in the Timeline, then yeah, you can just Opt-V and paste the Attribute— but it doesn’t port back over to the original MasterClip; just applies to that instance of the clip.
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Thanks Andy— I’ll definitely un- and re-install XDCAM Transfer as you’d described.
As for I/O et al: Kona 3, Mac Pro 2009 tower with 18 GB RAM; tried digitizing straight to the desktop after trying digitizing both to a 2TB Glyph RAID and a different “pro-video-friendly” 2HD Raid drive….. can’t think of the make/model; both drives had over 400GB available.
Without Deck Control, I’m left just Capturing Now, with both the inherent glitch that whenever FCP drops a frame (and “Abort upon” deselected), the video holds on that frame for half second or so before catching back up.
But the primary problem is the video speed that’s captured: it drifts SIGNIFICANTLY out of sync— leading me to believe it’s actually a deck control setting somewhere in the menu I’m unable to locate. I’m going through the PDW-F70 Manual now, and still can’t find a silver bullet.
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So— big question: I’m in the same boat of utter frustration: Snow Leopard and FCP7, with an XDCAM PDW-F70 and an FAM Driver that ain’t to be found. Is there ANY way to get the XDCAM footage in? Since the discs don’t appear on the desktop to bring in via XDCAM Transfer, and Capture Now via HD-SDI is skipping and jumping like a madman? Obi Wan– you’re my only hope!
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I bought it for my home system, but the client (on whose system the problem propagated) couldn’t spare the expense). We limped past the finish line by avoiding Stereo-Pairing altogether, program-wide.
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You’re right; sorry, I was unclear. I made a new seq in the new project, copy / pasted the old Master seq’s contents into the new project’s new seq. And the new project’s new seq worked perfectly for twelve out of today’s 16 working hours—- then the audio glitch out of the blue.
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Yep; suspicion of corruption was first up to bat. Copied the seq into a new project & ported over only the relevent media piecemeal, leaving out the XDCAM footage, which SUPERFLUOUSLY slowed the project opening (“searching for data in movie file”)… And for quite a while, copying into the new project solved a lot… til this new bit of audio houliganism.
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Storage? Over 400 GB each on 2 FW drives, & separately, 18GB of RAM; we’re not running SATA or SAS, but FW 800’s been doing us fine with all the XDCAM footage preparatorily saved out as ProRes LTs.
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It has now one-upped itself; just “drew in” audio waveform in all the empty-track spaces for about 5 minutes of the show (that which would be slug if it had content, in between about a hundred edits). This “new phantom audio” is un-selectable, disappearing if you try to select the space, only to re-appear if you de-select. Then it crashed FCP. I am positively loving this.
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Oh, certainly— but why in heck would the audio tracks from a completely separate clip get linked to it, e.g. only one track, track 2 of “tone” from bars and tone suddenly linking to a clip of video 30 seconds later in the timeline? The Linked Selection (shift-L) I keep off, and typically just use Option when I need to link them… but this craziness where FCP associates completely separate clips’ audio to a different clip, and messes up Stereo-Pairing— is throwing our post-production way out of whack. I’m tempted to just let the mixer deal with it, but we need to get tapes of the Roughs and Fines out to the EPs at the station for review, and can’t expect them to just “look past” all of a sudden audio just blaring out of only the left or right speaker, intermittently. FCP is undoing the Stereo-Pairing at random— even on imported music tracks that ARE ONLY stereo-paired L/R.
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Renders were trashed; Audio was captured intrinsic to the video clips— Here’s an example: clips A, B, C, and D are laying consecutively in the timeline. Somebody said something naughty in clip A, so “tone” from bars and tone, is inlaid in within the cut of clip A’s audio to bleep out the cursing. The four clips have 4 tracks of audio from the camera laying on tracks A 1-4, 1 and 2 being separate mikes, 3 and 4 being garbage mikes. All four clips’ audio tracks were pain-stakingly stereo paired by the process of: duplicating audio track one (lav mike) onto/over audio track 2 (boom mike), A1 panned to -1, its dupe on A2 panned to +1, Stereo pair the A1&2. Now, this is a half hour show, so it’s more complicated, but you get the picture. This recurrent glitch results in a couple different things: let’s say I Quadruple-T to “select all forward” at the Clip C mark, intending to JUST move clips C & D. Somehow, Track 2 of Clip A (half of it’s Stereo paired audio on 1 & 2)— far previous in the timeline— —OR—— the 3 frame audio cross-fade from A’s tail to B’s head is somehow selected as well. And the graphic icon on the audio tracks of Clip C denoting that it’s a Stereo Pair (dual-facing triangles) is messed up so that only one of the halves of the icon is present on its tracks. I cannot move Clip C & D, because of the errantly selected audio that for some godforsaken reason FCP believes to be Stereo Paired to Clip A (when C&D are selected, that errant clip or transition gets selected, too; and all attempts to move result in “conflict on track x; cannot move”). Trashing prefs and renders did not solve it.