John Pale
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I got it to work, first opening with VLC Player then converting to MOV using its Streaming/Transcoding Wizard.
Do you want me to send you the file or do you want to try it yourself? VLC is a free dowload…just Google it.
You will need to convert it again to something FCP can edit with, but at least you will be able to open it in Quicktime Player.
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Try applying the shift fields filter to the HD footage, if FCP has not done it automatically.
HD is upper field first, while DV is lower. That could possibly be the source of your aliasing and stuttering…maybe. -
You can work with DVCPROHD and HDV (badly, from what I hear). No uncompressed HD.
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FCP does not work well with FAT32. It will be slow and you will also be stuck with FAT32’s 4GB file size limit. Use MacOS Extended. Install MacOpener on the PC to read Mac formatted volumes.
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You are right. If you have lots of Motion files in your timeline, your project takes forever to open. I found that out the hard way a few months back.
Most people who need an alpha use the Animation codec….not sure why its not working for you…its pretty much the standard. Have you tried exporting them from Motion in Animation instead of Compressor? There are a few other codecs that support an alpha, like Sheer and Microcosm, but they are not free.
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Contact the DVD authoring company and ask what codec they prefer.
It would be best to use the “Export Quicktime Movie” command (self contained) rather than Quicktime conversion…but if they do not have Final Cut Studio, they may not be able to open a file using the Apple 8 bit Uncompressed codec.
If they cannot use this Apple 8 bit Uncompressed, there are a number of other alternatives…best to ask them what they prefer.
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…From the grasping at straws department
Here is a free plugin that may be useful for your problem…. its called 1z1 YUV Tool….
Here is the description from the website…
YUVtool (FREE)
W H Y | once while shooting a feature film, the digibeta cam used then suddenly freaked out and – for some reason – the crew had no chance to repair or exchange it within the day. so I finally got the tape to have a look if the material could be used. Somebody gave me a hint that something with encoding inside the cam was broken/misaligned. so this filter was born, created to manipulate numerous YUV parameters which would not be adjustable by usual color correction. another use of this filter could be to repair a copy of a tape where the YUV cables were plugged in wrongly (called super fast copy mode). the last time I used this filter was with material shot with an HDV camera which was edited in DV down-converted inside the camera. when I got the final cut (on DV tape) for color correction I noticed that on some shots the color channels were offset from the luma channel. I had no time to figure out where these offsets came from, but this filter helped me to fix them.
H O W | the labels of the sliders should be telling enough to know what to do; some technical knowledge about video processing will help, though.Sorry…never used it and dont have a screwed up recording to test it for you…but its free to download and mess with …
Good luck
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[Wayne Carey] “You can edit with the proxies but it will take considerable time to make them using the Sony Transfer software.”
Yeah. I had a sit down with Sony recently, and the rep cringed when the subject came up. It can be made to work, but I would not try it on anything but a short spot.
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FCP only works with the hi res video. It does not work with the proxy footage at all.
You can browse the proxies with the Sony software, but you edit with the hi res clips.