[Gunner Jones]

Not possible unless you have a capture card. Use Digital Cinema Desktop instead.

[Gunner Jones]

don’t use the legacy title generators. use title 3D people! the tracking with title 3D is mucho smoother.

[Gunner Jones]

[Matte] “This is still one big embarrassment for FCP users compared to Avid.
“
’nuff said.

[Gunner Jones]

Are you checking it on the video monitor? You can’t trust the Canvas….

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Hi Laura,
I don’t consider Log and Batch Capturing a “workaround”. In fact, that’s exactly how you should capture your clips. With each one having a distinct name. Capturing a whole tape roll can be disastrous for media management, speed fx and more if you ask me. If you want a stable project file that you can recapture from, always log and batch capture!

General rule of the thumb: the longer your clip is, and the slower your drives are, the more likely you are to get dropped frames on capture or playback. The shorter the clip is and the faster the media drives are, the less likely this is to happen.

I am totally against capturing tape rolls and using firewire drives because I HATE losing synch.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Check out Twixtor or re:Timer plug ins.

If FCP doesn’t look right, it often means that you may not have rendered it at Full Quality, are not in SafeRT or that you are not monitoring the effect on a video monitor. Make sure you are doing the above. In FCP 5, speed effects look quite good.

[Gunner Jones]

Let me count the ways:
Shuttling Speed. Faster on and off the heads. Rack mountable. Easy to load and eject. Meant to be on for long hours (fans, etc.). Faster FW ports, component and SDI output options, TC presets, Edit to Tape with Sequence TC, Longer use/greater wear and tear, Higher res monitoring. TC displays. Full size cassette DVCAM capability. Switchable PAL/NTSC options.

Most people give this as their chief reason: You can avoid wearing out the camcorder’s more fragile deck mechanism.

But I think the above points are more salient, especially for editors worth their salt.

Speed/Convenience/Features is what it’s all about.

A LOT of reasons that a full-time hard core editor needs to get the job done expeditiously.

If you’re a hobbyist, student, beginner or don’t do a whole lot of work all the time, a camcorder is fine to use until you step up to the big leagues.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Look here:
https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/pdf/FinalCutPro_5.0_Qualified_20050524.pdf

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Sony DSR-45
Sony DSR-2000

Hopefully you’ve got the dough to get yourself a decent deck. Anything under $2500 is suspect in my book. A DSR-20 is about the lowest I’d go. I really don’t like the DSR-11. It’s kinda cheap, has no TC and shuttles slower ‘n molasses.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Gunner Jones]

Here’s an idea….Don’t use a deck or camcorder that is not on the list of approved devices for FCP.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects