John Heagy
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I should also add that you can do it in FCP via Media Manager.
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Hi Carlos,
Why RAW and PR444? Why not RAW and PRLT or proxy? Are you onlining with the 444 or RAW? If 444, why not shoot 444 and LT or proxy. Wouldn’t RAW, 444, and LT add to your hard drive woes?
To answer your question… Compressor, Episode and ProxyMill will all encode with matching TC and Reel. We use an Episode Engine cluster which is the fastest way I know to encode ProRes. One can set up a similar type cluster with Compressor but it’s tricky to set up and keep running. Maybe Compressor 4 is improved.
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One thing in Calibrated favor is price. MXF4Mac is $670 and Calibrated is $250. With Calibrated you will need CatDV Pro w/mxf for spanned files which is $595. If you need an asset manager with a great toolset consider CatDV and Calibrated. You’ll get the same mxf abilities plus CatDV Pro for $175 more.
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[Michael Morabe] ” …but did not span the files. Is there a certain way to use it? “
Calibrated is simply an MXF plugin that presents mxf as QT. CatDV uses it to work with mxf. It’s CatDV with the mxf option that does the merging, not Calibrated alone. CatDV will work with MXF4Mac as well though according to Shane MXF4Mac does merge so you may need only that.
CatDV is one handy app I must say.
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Never worked with Raylight but suspect you are correct in that it does not merge spanned clips.
The only apps I’m aware of that do correctly merge spanned clips are FCP7 and CatDV with the mxf option and Calibrated’s MXF Import. I’m sure you’re familiar with how FCP does it. CatDV w/mxf along with MXF Import will present spanned clips correctly in a CatDV catalog. From there you can export them as reference movies or send them directly into FCP. The only thing about sending them into a FCP project is it will make a seq with the clips edited together, not a single movie.
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Hi Michael,
Nice use of search digging up this old post!
Using P2CMS to move P2 media will simply move it and not merge spanned clips. P2CMS will show the clips as merged but the actual .mxf files will not be merged into one. Where are you seeing 3 clips and where are you seeing 6?
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I used a Pentax K100D to take a photos every 10min for over 1 year. I used a Harbortroncis intervalometer to only take photos during daylight hours. Not surprisingly the mirror was the weak link. I went through 3 cameras over 4 years.
John
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[Rafael Amador] “[John Heagy] “If you drop your 60p into a 30p FCP timeline it will play as 30p.”
So why not directly in a 23,98 fps sequence?
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One could but then FCP will drop frames unevenly and you’ll get lousy looking motion. 60 into 30 will drop every other frame and look “correct” with the exception of lack of motion blur.John
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[Daniel GarcÃa] “How about REEL, TC Rate and Vid rate (Conform) changes from the command line for a start?”
That would be a great start. As far as REEL goes it would be handy to parse the REEL from the filename. QTchange reelset -parse$1 123456_P2_interview.mov or something to that effect.
John Heagy
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If you drop your 60p into a 30p FCP timeline it will play as 30p. It should be a green timeline so you will need to render when finished. You could also use Compressor before editing. For your 60 slo mo you will need to conform the 60 to 30 using Cinema Tools. in this message 60 = 59.94 and 30 = 29.97.