John Pale
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[David Intrator] “By the way, do you know if Avid Media Composer allows for sped-up audio scrubbing that’s comprehensible?”
Yes. Of all the major NLE’s, Avid does this the best.
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Avid currently is 32 bit and currently cannot take advantage either. That should change with MC 6 ..probably later this year,
If you can hold on until MC 6 is released, or more is known about it, you can make sure you buy the best hardware to work with it, Unfortunately, Avid has not released a great deal of info yet.
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I would make an HDCAM SR sub master in NTSC with all the stems. SR has the extra audio channels. Then convert that in the Alchemist. Recapture the sub master in a PAL project and do your audio exports or DA 88s. The audio stays locked to the video the entire way. Then your mixer doesn’t have to resync anything. My fear would be that the way suggested, the file would go in and out sync with the video slightly throughout the program, due to the conversion algorithm, though overall it would be the right length..starting and ending in sync.
Another thing…..
Make sure you really need to do this. Speak to someone at the network you are delivering to. When faced with this problem once, we phoned up the broadcaster in the UK and they said to just forget about the stems, as it was more trouble and expense than it was worth. The deliverable requirement was flexible for material not domestically produced.
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Squeeze and FCP 7 don’t use the power of the 12 core machine to its fullest.
Compressor uses all cores, but you don’t use Compressor.
Do you intend to stay with FCP 7 indefinitely?
If you are thinking about CS5, you will definitely want the power.
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It’s a known bug. There may be one or two more, rumor has it.
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CT just changes the speed the existing frames are played. It does not process the video or do any interpolation. So visually, it will be the same quality. It will affect the duration, and the pitch of any associated audio.
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Do not attempt to do any standards conversion within FCP or other software.
Go back to your original NTSC ProTools session. Create the necessary stems and output all 8 channels and video to a 1080i/60 HDCAM SR master. Have that master converted to PAL. Output your PAL stems to DA88, if required.
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Though a project in FCP X is similar to a sequence in FCP Classic, the way the two programs manage media and render files is different.
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You can select to copy the project only (its the first item in the dialog). Deselect copy render files, if you don’t want them duplicated.
You can rename your duplicate in the Inspector by clicking on Properties, then clicking the little wrench in the corner.
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I started a thread about this about a month ago. From my testing, opening files in PPro (with XMP) caused files to go offline in FCPX 100% of the time. Interestingly, opening files in FCP 7 also would occasionally cause files to go offline in FCPX. My conclusion is that FCPX is very sensitive to metadata discrepancies and corruption, and has very little in the way of dealing with any issues, other than taking the file offline.
I had to completely rebuild a sequence from scratch, as without any XML, AAF, EDL or even basic display of source timecode, there was no way to get my edit back. Luckily it was a fairly brief sequence, and I could rely on my memory. Having this happen on long complex edit would be a disaster.