Frank Nolan
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The sound house probably just transferred the audio as you asked. If you had it transferred to the same tape as the video then they would have had to do a pulldown. Just for future reference the speed difference is 0.1% not 1%. To get into the technical reasons for this would be way too much for this forum. Here are a couple of links to check out and then iff you do a google search you can find a lot of information on the subject.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#External_links
https://www.zerocut.com/tech/2_3_audio.html
https://www.zerocut.com/tech/pulldown.html
https://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/production_a_z/3_2_pulldown.htm
https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/MarApr02/tip_pal_murray.html -
You could always just turn on your keyframe overlays in the timeline and edit the levels right on the clip in the timeline.
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Not too sure about using a usb drive to capture uncompressed but if it was working flawlessy that could be good news. Bill the problem is the AJA Io uses the firewire bus and doesn’t like anything else on the bus with it. Even though there maybe FW400 & 800 ports on the imac, they are still on the same bus, so although it can work in some cases, it is not recommended to have FW drives on there as well. Now if you intend capturing to the internal drive, which is not recommended, then you may get it to work.
>cut it in FCP (at low res), then render the final sequence with settings as an uncompressed QT and kick it out to tape.
Not sure what you mean there but if you plan on digitizing at low res, then you would have to re-capture the final sequence at high res, uncompressed.
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You need to do a pull down on the audio of .1% This is a normal process beacause of the difference between film speed and video speed. If the tape machine you used to playback the audio from doesn’t have the capability of doing it, you could try selecting an audio clip in FCP and selecting.modify>speed change, then setting the number to 99.9% and see if that get’s you back in sync with the matching video track.
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You could always export a CMX3600 edl and have the sound guy do an assembly of the audio only with post conform or Titan flash conform and then re-import an OMF from a protools session once assembled. This would be 1 days work as opposed to….?
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Just be aware that the AJA wont play well with anything else on the firewire bus, so if you want to capture to an external drive on the powerbook you will need to get a PCMCIA firewire 800 card. I have a G-Raid on that card and can capture uncompressed from Beta SP with a 1.5ghz laptop.
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Ed, what drive is your 300 gb scratch disk? Is that your internal system drive?. The term “scratch disk” is whatever disk you assign in FCP to capture and edit on. If you are using your G-raid then that will be a scratch disk. If your “Scratch disk” is actually your internal drive that has your OSX on, then you should reset your G-Raid to be the scratch disk. Then just capture audio and video together on that.
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Trash all you old render files and re-render.
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What version of FCP are you on? I am on 5.0.3 and I just did exactly what you described and it changes it to the new 20fr duration when I control click add transition. I even left the audio at 30fr and just changed the default video dissolve duration and with clips linked, it placed a 20 fr on the video and a 30 fr dissolve on the audio. May be it could be a version thing or?
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It will add the 30fr dissolve because that is what you have set as the default transition length. As I said change the default duration in the browser and the next time you control click on an edit and add transition it will add the new length transition you have set in the browser.