[Jason Brown]

We used to joke about a company whose slogan was “one pixel at a time” … we always used to make fun of how long it would take them…then we got into HD and they went out of business! 🙂 lol….

[Jason Brown]

[Bram Desmet] “That really surprises me. 1280x720p60 is very common. It is the broadcast standard adopted by many of the largest networks and a lot of material is edited/delivered, etc. as such… “

I was speaking about my “small circle of friends” who are mostly lower end HDV users. The EX3 is the camera I’ve seen most of them use and in 720 they use the 60 frames played back at half speed. Everything they produce is almost always for web delivery or iphone…or possibly some sort of media player.

That’s great information Bram…I don’t produce things for broadcast…so I’m really interested in how to maximize quality and formats…

Do you know if there are limitations on Blu-Ray? I’ve heard the reference to 1080p in regards to blu-ray playback, is that 60p or 30p?

Thanks for your continued answers…I’m getting alot from this discussion.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Love Walter’s idea of having a FCP hardware forum…I’d use it 2 times a week trying to figure out how to get my MXO2 to work correctly! 🙂

j/k

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

I’ve been thinking about this discussion…and just came across this post:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1066311

Shane answered it (like he always does with amazing timeliness!)

But it got me thinking…this is surely someone who doesn’t fully understand how to use FCP…how do you get this type of poster to post in the basics section? To them, it’s a major issue…because FCP isn’t working, it won’t import the video. But to most of us who read it…it’s a very simple answer…

The great question is how to educate people who don’t fully understand what they are asking…

Just thought I’d continue to add to this topic.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Anyone figure this out? I’m capturing HDV from tape to the HDV codec…and the files have no extension. It’s not really too much of an issue, unless you want to import those files into Final Cut…the software doesn’t recognize them as valid video clips and won’t import…

I noticed something interesting today as I was using FCP Reconnect…there is a checkbox for “files don’t have .mov extension” so the guys who wrote this software made a workaround for this same issue we’re all having.

https://www.jbtwist.com/CC/extension.jpg

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

wow…that’s a pretty good read! I’ll take a look at work tomorrow…that may be well above my head! 🙂

Thanks for the good information…

Can anyone speak to the idea of using 720 60p as half speed footage? That’s the only application I’ve ever seen it used in…I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone (editing) with 720 at 60 frames per second. (In my small circle of video professionals)

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

Bram mentions later that the format exists of 1080p60 which would be 1920×1080 frame size at 60 progressive frames per second…wouldn’t that essentially kill 720p?

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

yea…and with auto-patch function enabled…it was a one keystroke function to turn on and select a track for editing.

I’m still working on finding the best way to edit with FCP…I was a keyboard fiend on AVID…but I’ve found myself doing a LOT of dragging and dropping with FCP.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

OK…but editing just the video track (for instance) without cutting the audio track involves using the “auto track selection” right? I’m still getting used to that…it’s still a little confusing to me how to effectively use it. I’m used to avid’s on/off track selection.

-Jason

[Jason Brown]

OK…GREAT information…I appreciate it!

My experience and understanding was that 720p @ 60fps was intended as slo motion footage…it can be played back like that, correct?

If you play back 60 fps video at 30 (29.97) it will be half speed at 30p, right? That’s always how I’ve seen it used.

-Jason