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Hey Chris,
Thanks for getting back to me, and please bear with me for asking rookie questions. When you say ‘reference file’ do you mine a ‘QUICKTIME MOVIE’?
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Hey Neil,
First of all, thanks for taking the time to hook me up with your knowledge.
I have never rented a Beta Machine myself, but this looks like it may be an option, if I get the green light from all of the different franchises all in the same week. How exactly would it work. Do I hook the beta recorder up via firewire to my Mac and just use the Print to Tape out of FCP?
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Hey Phil,
Lot’s of great information in your response. I always look forward to inquiring here at Creative Cow, coz I am always amazed at the breadth of knowledge of the community. Right now I am up in San Francisco attending a wedding for my wife’s cousin. In fact, she is giving me the evil eye as I type this for returning your email, but she understands that I am asking for a favor of you guys there at CC, so it’s all good.
If I am creating a master copy from FCP 6.0.6, from footage shot on a Sony HDRFX-1 (mini-dv) and captured at 1440×1080, am I still ok exporting using the DVCpro50 codec? My time line has the 1440×1080 attributes. And will the franchises be able to take that DVCpro50 file and create a high quality beta copy?
I guess another question is: Can I simply send that DVCpro50 file to a mastering house and have a beta copy made directly from it, in the same way I have a beta made from a ProRes file?
Hope I am making myself clear. I only started commercial production about four years ago and am still in a little bit of a rookie phase.Jared
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Hey Chris,
I know it may not seem like a lot of work, but all of the phone calls/recording/shipping that will go into figuring out deliverability to each of the 20 different local cable channels could get very convoluted. Time is just as expensive as beta tapes (even more so). I wonder if I can simply quote them a Hi-Def .mov or data file via FTP or DVD and let each franchise handle the issue between themselves and the cable channel they’ll be interacting with. Do you think that would fly?
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Thanks Stephen,
Though the answer is right there in front of my I would have been looking for it forever without your help.
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You Guys are rock solid Don.
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That’s very good information to have Don. And also regarding RT menu: If I forget to put it back to ‘Dynamic’ before making a movie, it matters nothing since that is only for playback and if I can tolerate the quality as an editor, I can play it at lesser quality and get more editing done, without any qualitative difference in the completed project.
Additionally, turning off the ‘Warning’ will save me precious time by not having to re-set.
Cool.
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Hey Don,
So, were I to execute the process the alternate way you describe (within final cut) it is the same .mov files that I would be ending up with correct? Thanks again for all of your advice and patience.
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Hey Greg,
Thanks for bringing your experience and wisdom to the table. You are right about how fortunate SONY is to have professionals like yourself who are so willing to impart your knowledge. I wonder if you guys had a quasi-strike for a week how much SONY just might appreciate what you do for them.I agree, Don has been amazing. Both he and you are a resource not fully appreciated by the manufacturers or even semi-peers like myself. I am grateful though for your dedication. Hopefully what you have been sending around makes it back to you on a regular basis, and if it hasn’t yet, I am sure a huge payday of some consequence is surely on the horizon.
Don: After going to my ‘ALL MOVIES’ location on my hard drive, I located the .mov files that were imported. I don’t know why they never went to the bin I assigned in preferences. Most probably a mis-step on my part. However, since the movies are there (Five copies of each…LOL), I copied them into my project elements folder. I think I am good to go here and I owe a lot to you and your dedication. i didn’t record sound for obvious reasons (slo-mo) and it appears the video files are nice and clean and of the correct resolution. They look damn good. I pulled them into bins and then into the FCP timeline and they played marvelously. In fact, I had to ratchet down the PlayBack quality so they would play without getting the pause error message, so I know they are larger and higher quality in nature than my regular FX1 captured video.
I know I probably didn’t execute the procedure the way you intended but at this juncture, you gave me enough information to get them into my computer as .mov files and ultimately it is what I needed. I am hoping that maybe in 6 months or so when I make the leap to a better camera, and FCP 7, that the whole process will be easier or I that I will become a more educated student.
Can’t thank you enough and people like Greg for stepping up to the plate like this.
Very, very grateful.
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Roger that Don. Just to let you know, I made a folder in an external hard drive and hit the ‘add’ button and then ‘import’. Upon conclusion of the import I checked the folder and found three folders titled: 1) Databases, 2) Proxies, 3) Thumbnails. I didn’t find any large MB video files though. Later today when you get home I am sure you will help me make sense of this all. Thanks again and enjoy your afternoon. (I am PST time). If at anytime you think a phone call would expedite this and save you time, you may call me at 800-261-1343. Thanks again Don.
Jared