[Fred]

thanks for the quick response.
Thankfully I’m just doing a storyboard, and not a final animation. so I don’t have to worry
too much about the action.
I have the audio on separate tracks in Final Cut.
When I change the frame rate in After Effects, will the audio change with the picture?
Or will I have to realign the audio in Final Cut?

Here’s my plan.
I’m going to cut the 29.97 fps, 22 minute long sequence into small chunks.
bring the small chunks into After effects,
interpret footage to 24 frames
render those out
put those into a 24 fps final cut sequence.
realign the audio in FCP.
export as one whole file.

sound ok?

thanks again

[Fred]

thanks steve,

got a question about precomping 540 layers in After Effects:

If my Quicktime movie is 864 x 540, do I have to pre-comp the QT movie in a 720 x 540 comp?
Can’t I just drag the 864 x 540 movie into a NTSC D1, 720 x 486 After Effects Comp, and scale it down to 90% even, letting the sides be chopped off.

Isn’t that doing the same thing as the 720 x 540 Pre-Comp Fit. You’re scaling the 540 Pre-comp to 90% as well.

They both look the same when I A/B compare them.

Is that ok?

[Fred]

Thanks everyone oh and I’ve been using Soundtrack Pro to Normalize some of the quiet parts of my clips, while still in FCP. I send my clips from the FCP timeline to Soundtrack Pro, Normalize them (non destructively) , then save the Soundtrack Pro project to include the source audio, and the clip changes are automatically reflected in my original FCP timeline. Now I assume the new audio level is linked to the Soundtrack Pro file.

Question: Will my new Soundtrack Pro (non-destructive) normalized clip be congruent in the OMF file I want to export from FCP, or will the OMF file only have the original quiet source non audio?

Thanks

[Fred]

Thanks for the response. another Question:

When someone gives you audio to sweeten and mix, even if it isn’t mixed shouldn’t all the dialog tracks be at the same volume level? My problem is the audio levels I’m getting are all over the place. i need to normalize some of my audio, just to hear it for screenings. Wouldn’t a sound post facility want levels relatively the same. I know they will say they want only the original files, but isn’t the audio guy just going to normalize the clip anyway. I’m trying to save as much time and money on his end as i can. Our pic edits mixes can get pretty close to good.

[Fred]

I’ve been using Soundtrack Pro to Normalize some of the quiet parts of my clips. While still in FCP, I send my clips from the FCP timeline to Soundtrack Pro, Normalize them, then save the Soundtrack Pro project to include the source audio, and the changes are reflected in my clip from my original FCP timeline. Will my new normalized clip be congruent in the OMF file I want to export? Or will the OMF file I will export only see the original quiet audio. I will be using Automatic Duck. Does this make sense?

[Fred]

Oh and I often have FCP and Soundtrack pro open at the same time.

[Fred]

Right now I’m using my startup Disk, My Mac HD as my scratch disk. We’re thinking about getting a Lacie external firewire drive 500GB. So you think my 1GB of RAM is fine?

[Fred]

Thanks for the response. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem. I have to shoot at that location. Is there an adapter or some kind of current stabilizer I can buy.
By the way I

[Fred]

Hey,

Thanks for the quick advice. I