Jerry Hofmann
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AVCHD can be ingested into FCP through the log and transfer window. The codec used is ProRes. Then capture the HDV as ProRes through the log and transfer tool. There’s a capture preset for this. Then both will be the same format.
Jerry
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Well… the last update to Studio was just a couple of months ago… there very well might be an update to Studio that goes along with the next OS. But I seriously doubt a new version of Studio is part of this event. I don’t see that happening for a year or more. Reason is that Apple is shipping 64 bit OS’s and Machines, and to make FCP become 64 bit is no easy/quick/normal upgrade… It’s a total rewrite.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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At the film school I teach part time at, we erase and perform a clean install on over 60 FCP bays every semester. Several of these bays include AJA cards, disk arrays etc… they NEVER show behavior that is not a “known issue aka BUG”. That’s why I’m a firm believer in keeping your installs clean, and on a busy bay – especially one used by many editors- It serves the system well to reinstall it all cleanly every year at least, and ANY time there’s an OS upgrade or a Studio upgrade. Clicking the “upgrade button” is just not a clean way to do things.
I cover all of this and more with the DVD selling here at the COW…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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Sounds to me like a software install problem. If you’ve not built a new startup disk lately, it might be time.
Make sure all drivers for that raid are up to date, but if the hardware is all good to go, I’d suspect what’s left is software. There’s no settings to check don’t think. Might trash preferences just because it fixes most setting/user error or they can be corrupt, but a clean install might well be the best thing to do.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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Your problem is that you need to transcode that footage to a format that FCP can edit. With FCP 5, I think the best you can do is use Compressor to transcode the footage from it’ h.264 format to either uncompressed HD, or DVCPROHD using the the same frame rate and size. Uncompressed files would end up being better technically, but they would be huge files and require a fast disk array to just play them.
Do yourself a favor and upgrade to FCP 7 and Studio (2009). That gives you ProRes to transcode to with software that you can use that integrates very well with the current version of FCP. Much better codec than DVCPROHD, and really it competes nicely with uncompressed HD.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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Can you post an example somewhere? a short QT movie?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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That’s because iDVD compresses the video when you burn a DVD with it. Playable DVD’s all have to have their video compressed to MPEG-2 in order to play in a DVD player.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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It might be due to the GOP structure of the video, and the audio doesn’t have it…
Try not putting the audio in the multiclip, and just use it as the audio track in the edit?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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What is the format of the source material? DV? HDV? or? How many cameras are involved and are all the clips the same format and frame rate? If not, that’s the problem.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
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A self contained movie that is of that codec and frame rate SHOULD be that large if it’s about 2 hours long.
I think you don’t understand that when you make a DVD from this file, it is compressed to MPEG-2 from the DVCPROHD and becomes small enough to fit on a DVD… You can use DVD SP or Compressor to make the files necessary for playback on a DVD from the file you’ve exported that’s nearly 100gb… THe compression settings used will dictate how small or large the resulting file is. You need to make it small enough to fit on a single or dual sided DVD. There are presets in Compressor for this very thing in fact, just apply them to the file you’ve exported and import the resulting MPEG and audio files into DVD SP for the burn.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
DVD:https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup
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