[John Pale]

You don’t do standards conversion within Final Cut Pro unless you purchase a plugin from nattress.com.
If you don’t want to spend $99…
You can export your sequence as is. Take it into Compressor… Select the appropriate preset within Advanced Format Conversions… Then in the Inspector, turn on the Frame Controls… Set the resize to Better and the Frame Rate Conversion to best. be sure to set the proper field domiance as well If your footage is interlaced (upper for all PAL except DV)

FCP itself cannot do proper standards conversion, as you discovered.

[John Pale]

The original 5D firmware recorded video at 30fps and 24 fps instead of the more traditional 29.97 and 23.976, which would cause sync issues with external audio. Another way, rather than altering your audio, would have been to conform the video clips in Cinema Tools to 29.97 or 23.98 .

The reason why FCP time stamps is because there are instances where the audio needs to be adjusted.

[John Pale]

The audio files get time base stamped according to the A/V settings the machine is set to. The global settings…the Easy Setup….NOT the sequence settings, which probably do match. This is because FCP can have sequences of different timebases within a project. Make sure the settings on Machine 2 match those of Machine 1….quit FCP, restart, then attempt a new reconnect.

Hope that helps

[John Pale]

[Brendan Maghran] “Media Composer 3.0 will work just fine (as long as you’re cutting your multiclips at a lower res, but this is true of any version), I just finished cutting a music video, up to 18-split multicam workflow on 3.0. “

I suggested upgrading, as he indicated he wants to work with a variety of codecs, presumably natively…which means AMA would be of some benefit to him. Avid MC 3 does not have AMA.

But yes…if you are going to work with native Avid resolutions, then definitely Avid MC3 will do.

[John Pale]

[Dennis McElroy] “-THree year old Mac Pro with 3.0 GHz processor quad core, 5 GB of RAM.”

this is fine. add more ram, if you can.

-A Blackmagic Intensity Pro HD card
This is useless with Avid. You can only use Avid hardware, the AJA io Express, or Matrox MXO2 mini.

[Dennis McElroy] “-And the 2008 version 3.0 of Media Composer (I have access to system upgrades but don’t want to skip a version that could potentially work better with what I want to do.)”

Upgrade to the current version 5.5. The older version will not be kind to you or your intended workflow.

[Dennis McElroy] “I’d like to be able to cut in multi-cam, at full HD resolution and then output a final HD Quicktime or digital media file, that I can have laid off to tape at a later t”

If you want to multicam 1080 at full resolution, you are gonna need a fast raid. Your internal drives, especially not RAIDED will probably not be up to the challenge.

Your Avid can transcode the footage to a lower resolution. You don’t need 3rd party software for that.

[John Pale]

I had assumed that since FCP X was not mentioned at WWDC that they had killed the product or sold it to Roxio or something.

🙂

[John Pale]

Make sure of the Easy Setup selected in FCP when you import your audio. If it wasn’t 25 fps (and its possible to have a project with many time bases…so just because your sequence setting is correct, doesnt mean anything) your imported audio will inherit the timebase of that setting.

[John Pale]

Apple will have your serial number on file from when you registered your software. Give them a call.

[John Pale]

Actually, I meant 185 not 145. DNX 145 is for NTSC.

[John Pale]

For Graphics:

Batch Import (select all files, instead of offline only). Select to use Current Settings instead of original setting. Change current settings to DNX 145.

For Titles:

Select Recreate Title Media. Select DNX 145 as your resolution.

Check the help menu for more info, if necessary.