Eric Strand
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Capture and edit in HDV 1080 30, then export File > Quicktime Movie using “current settings”.
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He’s saying to edit in 30p and reverse pulldown after you complete the edit. Why did you transcode to ProRes LT?
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Try using Compressor. Don’t do all the clips at once; try batches of them. In order to figure out the frame rate, open one of the H264 files in Quicktime and go to View > Inspector. It will tell you the frame rate.
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Right, I was bringing them in before and after I unchecked the box.
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Rolf, the files do not have a timecode track. FCP does show 0:00:00:00 if I drag the file from the drive into FCP, in which case it wouldn’t be referencing the THM file.
The “Use time of day timecode” option is checked; I have tried unchecking it but it still read the TC at 23:15:15.
That’s an interesting thought about applying daylight savings correction. I’ll investigate into that further.
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Are you editing and exporting in H.264?
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Hey Ed,
We just started using CatDV at our place in February. We are a small shop and there about 4 of us using it daily to log footage from various sources. It is a great tool and, as Rolf says, it is easy to use. There are a ton of great futures, I’ve actually found myself using it as a production tool to export videos out of an MXF file structure, change time base, other things like that. It even adds up the duration of all the clips in a catalog if you want to charge logging by the hour (I just saw this feature yesterday so I’m still loving it).
I will say, and this isn’t a knock against CatDV, but you have got to, got to, got to have your team properly trained and understand the logic behind logging and searching in a MAM. If you’re not careful it’ll be just as hard to find your footage in CatDV as now. CatDV allows a lot of customization, which is a blessing and a curse, as you can go crazy building fields you don’t really need or are built in. I wish my company had gone Bryson’s route and hired a third party to recommend solutions and help us with workflow implementation, but alas, I’m dealing with the curses of CatDV that I just talked about.
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I used this calculator and it appears that you could get it down to 4.7GB, given it’s a 720 file, 24fps, and bitrate of 5 Mbps.
https://www.dr-lex.be/info-stuff/videocalc.html
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The best you’re going to get is keeping your video in its native format, eg DVPROHD, P2, XDCAM, etc. Lossless means just that: lossless, so your files will be huge.
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Glad you got it worked out!