John Heagy
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Using the same audio with 24 and 23.98 is an issue, but solvable. You will need to pulldown the 24 video and audio. It will throw of the TC off on the audio so syncing will be a pain. The .1% speed difference will not be noticeable at all. The fact that you are using two different cameras will be.
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Hilarious!!!
Had me going… when I saw his lids start to twitch I knew what was coming. Well done!
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Hi Joe,
Depends on what you mean by “does not work”. Work where? Ref will certainly work in FCP and in most any Mac QT app. It will not work in most PC apps. What exactly would be ideal for you? Do you just need sub clips in FCP of the appropriate in time and duration? You can do that with CatDV as well. Once the ale is imported into CatDV you can select all the clips from each “Tape” and “Attach Media” and select the correct master tape file. CatDV will link them all unlike FCP. Once all the clips from each Tape are linked in this manner, you can Export/Send to FCP and bring the clips into FCP without actually making new media, ref or otherwise.
FYI… as you know we have Spirt 2Ks here, we also have a custom app that can record direct to file, under daVinci control, exactly as if the Mac were a VTR, insert edits and all.
John Heagy
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Ahh… You can use CatDV to link to an imported ale… we do it all the time. Create a CatDV catalog containing all the HD media, with correct reel and TC, then import an ale. CatDV will link the ale “clips” to the HD media based solely on reel and TC. From there you can export a ref or self contained movie that retains reel and TC. CatDV does not do this by default, you will need to set “Automatically link media based on tape name” under Preferences/Advanced Media Handling.
John Heagy
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I’m with Matt in needing some clarification. Have you transfered any film to date? If so, to what and how? The term “telecined” usually means 24>60i via 3:2 pulldown… is this what your doing or are you transferring to 24p? Is this 24p or 23.976? I assume you’re using CT to generate a cut list for conforming the film?
Not sure what “reverse assemble” means here.
Do you want to output from the telecine (Spirit?) direct to file with synced audio and even minute TC at the punch for each roll? Doing this with FCP will give you 0hr TC for each roll which, as Bouke said, you could set manually in FCP after clip is recorded.
Depending on the answers to the above questions, we may have exactly what you’re looking for.
John Heagy
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To edit native or rely on RT Preview…
For us it native all the way. Our shows have such tight delivery schedules we can’t afford to render a 1hr seq of AVC-I, or other codec, in order to output to tape or submit to an encoder. There is no file format that allows a mixed codec/frame size or rate to coexist in a media file. One could use the FCP project as the “final master” but that’s a lot of “spinning plates” that could fall compared to a single ProRes file. No amount of hardware preview acceleration will change that.
If you are using RT to go to tape.. remember, RT is only 8 bit and who knows what other short cuts it’s taking to preview mixed codecs. It’s called “preview” for a reason. Adobe refers to it’s Mercury engine the same way I believe.
The render is unavoidable… we choose to render first.
John Heagy
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720×486 is not square pixels… change your aspect to CCIR-601
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With 2TB drives, soon 3TB, and all day rebuild times, RAID 6 is something to consider. Are you okay hoping a 2nd drive doesn’t fail during a 14hr rebuild on a RAID 5 array?
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Stereoscopic… of course!
Thanks for the info. Seems workflow is single camera centric. What name are the cards formatted with prior to recording? Just the 3 digit serial?
I understand the SxS cards need to be formatted in camera, but we really don’t want camera operators to click yes to the “Are you sure you want to blow away whatever is on this card” question. No one can spare an Alexa as a in house card formatter so I suppose the only option is to format the card as HFS or FAT32 so it’s wiped prior to being handed to camera ops.
What’s a good SxS reader? Seems the Sony SBAC-US10 and the Qio are the only external readers out there. No firewire to be found?
Ironically we are going to be recording to KiPros for sound, and SxS for highspeed. Does the Alexa have a lens tap, or equivalent, to trigger the KiPro? I’d imagine it must have something to trigger recordings on the codex recorders.
Thanks
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25fps to 24fps is done all the time and people just live with the slight audio pitch change. 30 to 24 is a problem without doing a proper conversion via Compressor or Episode. If you drop 30i in 24p it will drop 6 frames per second and you will have to de-interlace it… not pretty I’m afraid.