[John Heagy]

[John Heagy] “Compressor to encode that to MPEG2 with any scaling needed.”

That should be WITHOUT any scaling.

Ted if your HDV footage is in a ProRes seq all the better. Make sure the new SD seq you make is set to anamorphic if you want a 16×9 DVD

[John Heagy]

Hi Fred,

You do not need to de-interlace. That reduces temporal resolution, 60i to 30p in your case. However, since you’re using Compressor ANY interlaced footage will get de-interlaced by Compressor if scaled down. Compressor relies on QT, and QT cannot scale fields independently. Now… FCP does scale fields so you could make a 720×480 60i timeline and drop your 60i HDV seg into it… presto 60i SD. Use Compressor to encode that to MPEG2 with any scaling needed.

Now… having said that, if someone has found a combination of settings that does scale HD 60i to SD 60i in Compressor… I’ll gladly eat my words.

Good luck
John

[John Heagy]

Hi Rolf,

Thanks for considering my feature requests but power is not an issue at all. It’s really ease of use for less technical users. Regex is something I’m not fluent in, much less our loggers. Bulk Edit presets would allow me to give loggers regex power without them having to build an expression themselves. Of course marker and scene detection name builders would skip the post naming process all together. I could imagine a list of builder presets loggers could choose from depending on job. These builders could also be set in Worker so automatic scene detection would produce useful names based on file and/or folder criteria.

On a separate note: Version 8.0.8 seemed to speed up flattening via QT export. I was only getting 80MB/sec with version 8.0.6, I’m now getting 110MB/sec reading and writing from our Xsan. CatDV is one of the few apps that create QT movies that retain Reel and TC, with TC format and time scale of the original file.

The fastest QT flattener I’ve found is iStomp, which achieved 220Mb/sec due to it’s ability to spawn 6 concurrent jobs. Unfortunately, while it does retain Reel and TC, it resets timescale to the default 600 and does not have CatDv’s automatic folder creation based on reel or bin, with is super useful.

Thanks
John Heagy
NFL Films

[John Heagy]

Thanks for the Verbatim tip Allan. I Have yet to try the logger. Find and replace would work in some cases, or Bulk Edit as you mentioned. I agree that it takes multiple passes of Bulk Edit to get everything you need. A multi-step function like “A Better Finder Rename” https://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderRename/ would be great. The ability to save these steps as presets would be nice in addition.

I’d still like to see a Marker Builder because having a user choose a “builder” preset will be more reliable than excepting users to run a Bulk Edit on a selection of clips correctly every time.

Feature Request: Marker Builder w/presets

Feature Request: Multi-Step Bulk Edit w/presets

Thanks
John Heagy
NFL Films

[John Heagy]

Hi Kevin and Rolf,

Thanks for the quick response.

Bingo! That did the trick! it’s both a way to change the TC from 00:00… and to assign the Tape/Reel via folder/bun or whatever criteria one chooses via bulk edit.

The DSLR is a Canon EOS D1 MkIV and the files are 1080p, 23.98, H.264 .mov They, like any consumer device, lack TC and Tape/Reel.

Some way to assign ascending and unique TC to these clips would be great. As Rolf knows we depend on Reel and TC so we’d like to pound these square peg files into our round hole workflow when they pop up. I made a sequence of a few and this allows me to export the clips as one file with TC but does not assign Tape/Reel.

Is there a way to make a sequence of a group of clips… assign TC & Tape… then export as individual clips?

Thanks
John Heagy