Eli Mavros
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I thought that seemed a bit odd. I don’t know why it isn’t showing up. Well, I just installed FCP 6 the other day and haven’t done any updates to it yet…so maybe I should try that. Do you recommend the latest release of v6? No major bugs to look out for?
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I only get the “current” option if I try to export a sequence, but not if I export a clip from the viewer.
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Right. But there is not easy setup for 10 and 8 bit HD sequences in the out of the box FCP, so you would custom create and easy setup, right? Well, I was just tooling around with the fixed format thing and decided to edit in a DVCProHD timeline, even though the footage was 8bit (don’t ask me why). Anyhow, I am just match framing the shots and then exporting from the viewer to send shots out to rotoscope. So, as you can see, I am actually not exporting from a sequence. Also, does “current” match your sequence settings or your easy setup? I know I could just make my own easy setup and be off and running, but just wondering.
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Why doesn’t FCP have built in 10 and 8 bit HD settings? Why are there only uncompressed 422 settings for NTSC and PAL formats?
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Wouldn’t using the “conform” function in Cinema Tools to convert 24p to 29.97 just speed the footage up and not add pulldown?
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That would be sweet indeed, but I don’t think you are going to find anything like. Sorry.
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Don’t ask me…if I were doing it I would design in non-square…but I work with dozens of different designers who all do it a certain way (I guess the way they were originally taught), and they aren’t going to change there ways to please little ol’ me. I think it may have to do with the fact that we work with a lot of 3D and I know that Maya and the like is very specific about how it handles things…but that is just a guess. The best is when working on a big project and everyone is doing it differently…it is amazing how disorganized a lot of companies are…I guess it has a lot to do with them being mostly freelance based without a set up company guidelines. I don’t usually play a lead role on projects, otherwise I would make sure that everyone was on the same page (as it is I try my hardest to do this).
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HA!
Thanks for the amusing response Dave. Yeah…I only believe half of anything I read in the Apple manuals. It is a pain though to be the guy who is always complaining to my co-workders about things not being done the “right” way, when it nearly always only applies to how FCP does things.
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I agree that a quicktime is easier…for me. But as Alan said, it is generally better for the motion gfx people to work with image sequences. I know about making a qt out of image sequences with QT Pro, After Effects, Motion, etc…I even have Silver Stack (which is great for DPX work…just used it for the first time). But I just want to be able to load the image sequence right into FCP without doing any of those intermediate steps…which end up just taking a lot of time even though they are simple.
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Hey man,
Thanks for your help. So indeed it worked…I don’t know why DVDSP cannot tell you somewhere that your asset is truly 23.98, but at least now I know not to trust it…but it seems like one would be setting themselves up for a lot of errors with this inaccuracy. I built the DVD and then I took the VOB into MPEG Streamclip and it read the video stream as 23.98. Awesome. This all came about because an audio house asked if we could give them a DVD to score to. Someone here made a DVD from a 24p quicktime using Compressor and DVDSP. The audio house gave us back VO tracks that were 31 and 1/2 seconds long and said the the video was that long and shouldn’t it be 30 seconds? Well, that confused the hell out of me, and I just figured the DVD had been made wrong and the discrepancy in length had to do with someone on our end making a 29.97 dvd from a 23.98 quicktime without doing it the right way. But I just happened to check the VOB of the DVD that the audio house worked off of…and lo and behold it is 23.98, and 30 seconds long (well a couple of frames short…most likely due to MPEG2 I frames or something). So I guess that I can conclude two things from today 1. I now know how to successfully make a 24p DVD and 2. The audio house must have f***d up on their end.Good day.
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Eli