Jamie Pickell
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Do you have to work in DV? I would recommend creating Pro Res Proxy files of your original material and retaining the full raster size. If you start doing scale and motion effects on your shots they won’t translate nicely from the DV raster to the HD raster. The Proxy files will take almost twice as much hard drive space, but I think that’s a small price to pay in comparison to the potential headaches it will save you later on. Also it will address your field order issue.
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Use Automatic Duck’s Import OMF plugin. I’ve used it for over 4 years importing both OMFs from Avid and from FCP projects. Works like a champ.
Jamie
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Use Automatic Duck’s Import OMF plugin. I’ve used it for over 4 years importing both OMFs from Avid and from FCP projects. Works like a champ.
Jamie
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If you have Toast 9, you can use it to convert the files into any codec you have installed on your system.
Jamie
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If you have Toast 9, you can use it to transcode the .MTS file into any codec installed on your system.
Jamie
OX 10.5.5
FCP 6.04
Dual 3.2 Quad Core
XRaid
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I’ve had this happen before when doing an insert edit on a DBeta. It’s been awhile, but I think I rebooted the machine and everything was fine.
Jamie
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You are correct regarding the XDCam footage. You bring it in XDCam and then if you want it as another codec you use Compressor. I keep my timeline in ProRes, but due to the nature of my program I have a mixture of EX-1, P2, DVCProHD, HDV, and some SD material on the timeline. The downside to staying in the native XDCam codec is that it is Long-GOP and requires the computer to process each frame. It’s okay on an Intel desktop, however, if you start shuttling quickly on your timeline and try bouncing back and forth from one point to another point, the computer has problems keeping up with what frame to display and interpreting that frame, then FCP crashes. I recommend bringing in your native XDCam footage and then transcoding to ProRes and cutting from the ProRes files this way you will be working in an I-frame codec and the processor can focus on other things. Also, Compressor will keep the native timecode so that shouldn’t be an issue when transcoding.
My 2 cents,
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The other option is to use iPhoto to do the slideshow for you. Each picture will be the same length and you can set the dissolve as the transition.
I’m doing this right now on over 800 family photos that my mother wants on a DVD. There was no way I was going to edit that many photos in FCP!
Cheers,
Jamie -
Tom,
I had a similar issue with AVCHD and found this thread on the Cow:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1015813I have Toast 9 and was able to convert my clips into ProRes422HQ with no problem. You should be able to use Toast to convert to any codec you have installed on your machine.
Cheers,
Jamie