Harry
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My B/M Decklink HD Pro waorks just fine with voiceover tool. I’m mystified.
Harry
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Go to “Motion” tab in FCP. Go to “distort”. Change that to minus 33.33% and it will squish it the correct amount to compensate for your 4×3 frame and will give you letterboxed output.
Hope this is clear.
Harry
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Shane, I don’t think you are entirely correct that 24f is not FCP supported. I believe the latest update has a 24f Canon Codec.
However, the latter part of your post is perfectly correct. I have been importing 24f into FCP DVCProHD via a circuitous method for the past 6 months and it looks excellent.
Best
Harry
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I found that when FCP gets recalcitrant about reconnecting to a particular file which I can see is there, I change the search from “Video” (default) to “ALL” and then select that file manually in the window. I had this problem 2 days ago and, when my panic subsided, this was the answer for me.
Best
Harry.
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Thank you for the advice. You are not the only one who tells me to take this route, so I’ll be taking a shot at the SDI method.
Many thanks again
Harry
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Thanks very much for taking the time to reply to my drama. In fact the software does know which camera it is and displays the name in a little box – yes it is the correct camera.
It’s all a great mystery.
Best wishes,
Harry
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Thanks a million. Maybe your friend will come up with something.
Best
Harry
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Hmmm
Thanks for the reply, Graeme.
However, when I set my camera for HDV output over firewire and set “downconvert” to “off”, as I was instructed to do by the HDVxDV support people, the camera looks as if it’s happy, but when I plug in the firewire cable, these options revert to “auto” and “on”, respectively.
If I start with the firewire cable plugged into the camera and computer, the camera output options in the menu remain on “auto” and “on” (downconvert) and cannot be changed – they are grayed/yellowed out.
Something’s wacky here.
Maybe I should have another try at Canon’s support line?
Other people seem to have had success with this method, no.?
Any further ideas welcome, and thanks for the reply,
Best
Harry.
PS: Hope the little one – probably enormous by now – is doing well.
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Mr Biscardi,
Thank you very much for your informed and useful reply to my post. I will investigate with Canon whether the XL H1 can output 4 tracks via firewire.
Best wishes and, again, thanks for your prompt reponse. I am up against a time thing here.
Harry
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Thanks for that tip about the 1440. I’ve now done that.
And I made a new “easy setup” and also, as per Blackmagic instruction manual, changed the Video Desktop to “Disabled after restart” which was supposed to give me video preview in the capture window – it doesn’t.
I’ve also trashed prefs, brushed my teeth etc etc.
I have also made a New Sequence, but then FCP throws up this message when I double click on that new sequence or try to open it: “Codec not found. You may be using a compression type without the corresponding hardware card”
Whadda ya make of that, Mr Fung?
I’ve emailed Blackmagic, so we’ll see what they have to say. But I still think it’s fundamentally an FCP issue.
So I’ll be back.
And many many thanks for all of your assistance to everyone. I am now off suicide watch after knowing that there are people out there who give enough of a damn to help their fellow man.
Any more ideas are welcom. I’ll be here till the end of time.
Best wishes,
Harry.