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Jim Eckes
August 1, 2009 at 2:51 pm in reply to: Shot in 24p, needs to end up in 30i for broadcast

I do have a DVCPro HD deck that will output through firewire.
That is how I plan to acquire the footage. When I’m finished, I’m going to take it to a post house, which I have access to and export out.
I have to look closely at the PBS Red Book which has all the required deliverables, but in brief they want it delivered in 30fps. My question is can you successfully convert a 24p sequence to 30fps?
It seems to me that if I digitize my footage at 60i, i will be where I need to be from the start. I’m assuming that FCP adds the pulldown to the 24p footage on digitize and leaves you with 30fps clips.

Am I right?

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.6
Jim Eckes
August 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm in reply to: Shot in 24p, needs to end up in 30i for broadcast

Thanks. Great info!
My question is this, if I work in 24p, is the conversion to 60i a difficult one? How do you make that transition.
I know I can work with 24p easily and have no problem with that,
but how do I deliver the required 30 frames per second to PBS.

Thanks again!

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 30, 2009 at 4:27 am in reply to: Apps freezing up

As reported on another post, Albert with Blackmagic helped me fix this problem. Running “Repair Permissions” in the disk utility fixed this.

Thanks Albert!

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 30, 2009 at 4:26 am in reply to: Installed Inifnity card, have to trash FCP prefs constantly

Just wanted to update in case anyone else has the problem.
Shane Ross on the FCP board and Albert with Blackmagic both suggested
moving the graphics card to slot 1 and the Intensity video card to slot
4. This seems to have solved my problem with the canvas and monitor going black in FCP.

Also, since installing the Intensity card, I was having problems opening other applications such as Soundtrack Pro and even iTunes.
Albert suggested running “Repair Permissions” in the disk utility.
This seems to have fixed this issue as well.

I can now report that I am very happy with the Blackmagic Intensity card
and I’m quite happy with tech support at Blackmagic. Props to Albert and Shane Ross for bird-dogging this one for me.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 23, 2009 at 12:49 am in reply to: Added Infinity video card, now I have to trash prefs constantly

Thanks
I’ll try that.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Intensity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 23, 2009 at 12:40 am in reply to: Installed Inifnity card, have to trash FCP prefs constantly

Sorry, Intensity card not Infinity.
I spaced…..

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Infinity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 23, 2009 at 12:28 am in reply to: Added Infinity video card, now I have to trash prefs constantly

Check that…Intensity card, not infinity.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
1 NVidia Gforce G120 card
1 Blackmagic Infinity Video card
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.0.5
Jim Eckes
May 18, 2009 at 4:15 pm in reply to: FCP forces animations to upper field dom

That’s it!!!!! Thanks, Rafael. I was trying to open the “item properties” menu and trying to fix there. It wouldn’t let me.
Never thought to slide my browser over to the “field” column.

Thanks again. You’ve done your good deed for the day.

Have a good one.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
2 video cards
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.1
Jim Eckes
May 18, 2009 at 3:21 pm in reply to: FCP forces animations to upper field dom

Thanks, Rafael.
My question is this. If I need the animation to be field dom off, how do I change that? The graphic seems to be locked into a upper field setting. The rest of the footage from the project is fd off. The only workaround is to change the sequence to fd upper to match the graphic.
I’m not sure what it is going to do to the rest of the footage in the sequence.

Jim

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
2 video cards
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.1
Jim Eckes
May 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm in reply to: 3 monitor setup, 2 for me one for client…problems

Good info on that post. Wish I’d seen that first.

Jim Eckes
MacPro 8 core
2 video cards
16 gb Ram
FCP 6.1

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