Gene Limbrick
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I built one, using tonymac86’s website as a guide. i5 processor with a pretty sweet gfx card, it runs OSX fine, and i’ve haven’t had FCP or after effects crash yet, but i only use this for personal projects, if i was a freelance editor i would maybe rent/borrow a machine for my first few jobs until i could afford a mac pro, it’s tricky though.
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Well we’re capturing whole tapes, so if we recaptured the tape from the very beginning again, then stripped the timecode again, and re-linked, wouldn’t that work? we’re not really capturing this footage for editing, it’s more archival.
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We cant capture without deck control as the tapes are usually an hour long, so we leave them running. without deck control the files will just have tons of black on the the ends. i’ll have to see if anyone knows a bulk way of stripping video files of timecode.
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it doesn’t need to be slower, i can slow it down after in final cut, but if i can get it to play at 25fps then i won’t get the stuttery pull down effect (i assume that’s what i’m seeing) when slowing the 60i footage down in the 50i timeline.
thanks
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Sorry, i also forgot to mention that i’m slowing the clips down too, to around 60%
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Hey,
Just came back to this thread, as we’re still facing this problem, im from the same company as OP
It’s an archive of 30 years, going back, from our production company’s shoots.
Im thinking dv50. As far as I know, we’ll only ever need to edit on mac, and we’re capturing through a blackmagic card. Our options are only dv50, jpeg, pro res and uncompressed. uncompressed is out of the question. by eye dv50 looks better in final cut, though i’m waiting on getting our monitor sorted out to se it properly.
this will take more than a year, this we have accepted…
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“When it gets stretched and moved by the tracking data part of the text falls out of the frame and disappears.”
it seems to track very strangely and then the edges disappear after a certain invisible line…
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doubling the resolution within the text comp halves the size of the text inside the text comp, but when i go back to the main comp it’s the same size as before, except the tracking is slightly off…
this doesnt make sense…
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I have to pre-comp as when you make a text layer it seems to inherit the current comp size as a “frame”
When it gets stretched and moved by the tracking data part of the text falls out of the frame and disappears.
I think i’ve tried what you said with making a seperate comp from scratch in a larger size, filling it with text and then putting that comp into the composition. when i apply the tracking data to this text comp it disappears…
let me know if i’ve misunderstood..
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If i nest the 1st sequence in a new 4:3 sequence I have the same problem, and if i copy and paste the clips across they come in at the wrong size, and will take hours of resizing…. damnit