Enzo Tedeschi
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David,
I think you have perhaps misunderstood the post.
Yes, there is a lag with DV, but you shouldn’t be waiting seconds, more like a fraction of a second. I definitely think it’s the droves spinning down…
The more painful option if you don’t have the hardware, is to convert your uncompressed SD into DV via software. This will obviously be render intensive depending on how much footage you have may not be an option. You can then re-assign tc to match your SD files inside FCP.
As David suggested, burn-in on your DV files is a must to make sure things don’t go astray. You can add this in FCP as you down-convert.
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Karl,
Any kind of MPEG compression is really not suitable for editing due to the IBP encoding. Most NLEs either won’t accept it or crash (or convert on import!).
There are programs on the PC that will let you convert to any codec you please while ripping from DVD (instead of just MP4 and it’s variants). This is the kind of thing you need, but I don’t know if there’s anything out there for the Mac.
For now, you may just have to live with the two step process – or digitise off the playing DVD!
Enzo Tedeschi
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Yes, David. mpeg streamclip rocks, I know. I swear by it!
Karl’s issue is that he wants to be able to rip from DVD directly to DV – which straemclip won’t do. He still needs to rip off DVD, and then convert using a separate progie from each step.
Do you know of a one-step solution?
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Karl,
It would seem that the issue here is the ripping process. I am not all that famliar with Handbrake, but it seems to only offer mp4/AVI/H264 output. What you would need, I guess is a ripper that converts directly to quicktime DV. I am not sure that this exists for Mac (at least not for free, anyway).
ffmpegX and Forty-Two are other apps that might help, but unless I’ve missed it, it’s pretty much: rip to disk drive > encode to DV.
FCE works in DV only, but unlike iMovie which is designed to be as user-friendly as possible, it won’t convert on import. Either way (even into iMovie) you’re still ripping, then encoding, right?
I am at a loss for any other suggestions, but if I can find some time, I’ll try and work it out (there is a large short film comp here in Sydney – deadline for submissions is in 2 days…. it’s hectic at the moment!)
Enzo Tedeschi
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by jove, you’re right!
MPEG streamclip doesn’t support mp4, despite supporting DiVX… gob figure…
I am doing a test with a downloaded mp4 using Quicktime Pro…
Worked fine. Convert it to a qt mov using DV PAL codec, and FCE should have no dramas.
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Squared 5’s “MPEG streamclip” is the way to go:
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
You can even use it to convert the DVD straight to a DV mov for cutting. Saves the extra compression to mp4 and back, you may just have to rip it first…?
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Export the AIF as you normally would, and then use iTunes / Toast etc to create an audio CD out of it.
The only thing to watch out for is that audio on video files is 48khz sampling rate, CDs are only 44khz. There will need to be a conversion somehwere along the line, but your burning software may take care of that.
Otherwise convert to 44khz as you export from FCP.
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Interesting…
Cutting in SD would be ideal, but I suspect you will run into hassles working with uncompressed SD on that drive. Offlining to DV and back is a good solution if you do hit a brick wall, it’ll just be more complicated if you need to do FX shots.
Hard Drives spin down after a certain amount of idle time to save power and wear, so after they have done that and you access them, there will be a couple of seconds of lag while the drive spins up again.
If you are getting that every single time the drive is accessed, even with only a few seconds between access, then something is amiss.
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Two monitors running FCP off the Mac, and one monitor displaying the video signal (eg feed to a broadcast monitor or TV from DV deck) is ideal. Widescreen monitors are nice. You can never have too much space for FCP, and a video monitor is essential for checking for problems with the interlaced signal or for colour correction work. You won’t get an accurate representation of colour on a computer monitor.
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FCE will only work with DV. You will need to convert your file first to scale it up – Quicktime Pro perhaps, depending on your file’s codec? Or maybe mpeg Streamclip. Be aware that you will suffer some quality loss.
Enzo Tedeschi
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