Gary Askham
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You don’t have to start completely from scratch. You can use copy and paste (like in a text document). Select all your clips in your timeline, copy them, open up your new RT friendly timeline and paste the clips.
You will lose any rendering you’ve done so far but they were rendered in the wrong format anyway.
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Why are you editing in a h.264 sequence? Are you trying to create problems for yourself?
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I have found that when using the Log and Transfer EOS plugin you have to leave your computer completely alone as it carries out it’s processing… otherwise it can randomly jump to the next clip without finishing.
I have seen one or two other people mention this on the forum too.
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This isn’t a solution but it might help you track down your missing clip.
Sometimes when I begin capturing something in a new project I forget to do a “Save As” – which gives the FCP project it’s name. This makes Final Cut put the first captured clip into a folder called “Untitled Project”. After that clip is captured FCP usually reminds you that you haven’t saved your project yet. So you save your project and everything from that point is put in a Capture Scratch folder with the correct name. That first clip however remains in a folder called “Untitled Project”.
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You’re not giving us much to go on, Tony.
What kind of video format are you editing? 1GB of RAM is the minimum requirement for FCP – if you’re doing anything a little more demanding than basic DV editing though you probably want a bit more.
FCP can crash for many reasons – usually due to human error or under spec’ed systems. Also, what kind of level of proficiency would you say you are at? Just so we can rule out the basics.
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Why not…
– shoot with 1080/50i HDV camera
– edit and grade in 1080/50i HDV sequence
– Export as 1080/50i HDV QuickTime (h.264 if it’s being played on a mac that doesn’t have FCP).Why all the unnecessary extra steps?
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The mid-sized tapes are Panasonic’s own DVCProHD format. They need a different deck for playback so it’s important to know that distinction (they also are of better quality – HDV is 25Mb/s where DVCPro can near 100Mb/s – that can be a big difference in post production, especially as the BBC don’t accept HDV as broadcast quality whereas DVCProHD is)
As for delivery I would go with a h.264 QuickTime or an iPod friendly .mp4.
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I don’t know if you know this but all the info about camera’s and HD formats is now pretty irrelevant to you (and Panasonic have never made an HDV camera as far as I know). It seems that what you have been given are DVDs of the footage.
DVDs are not HD. So unless you can get the original rushes you are stuck with compressed standard def down-converts of everything. Not great images to work with (although it is common for showreels to be made this way so not all hope is lost).
You need to use an application such as Mpeg Streamclip to make Standard Definition ProRes 422 QuickTimes of the DVDs. This is the preferred codec for FCP editing as it is relatively small, easy to work with and of good visual quality.
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Hmmm, I have a similar list. I too am on Snow Leopard and Quicktime X.
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As Shane says you need to change it to something other than h.264.
(is there a way to put a huge banner across this website saying “h.264 is not an editing codec!!”)
There is an application called Scene Detector that will analyse your video and cut it up for you. I have never tried it and don’t know if it’s any good… but that’s what it says it’ll do.
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