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I’m betting its about 5-6 hours of source, which is why Compressor is quoting about 9 hours to do the conversion.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Eric Chase] “I can’t cross check the workprint. I cant work with titles the way a non-linear system typically works”
Resolve Release 10 addresses a great deal of the titling issues, although personal choices in graphics vary widely. The workaround is to make alpha-matted .mov titles out of whatever composition application you are using, and re-imbed them with Resolve. That workflow worked already with Release 9.
There is also a “chase” option to play a “scratch” offline movie alongside your Resolve project which has been part of the application for a long time. Warredn Eagles has a 9-minute tutorial posted on vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/51497089jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Shane Ross] “broadcast peak levels are -12db.”
“Peak levels” being the operative term…
What I was previously referring to is the bars&tone VU level of 0=-20… just to dot the i.
You are, of course free to record at any dynamic level you want — in the field. I often get music tracks that are “full range”, which of course, have to be cranked way down to get under the -12 peak threshold. Be aware that the FCC is levying fines now under volumetric uniformity laws. All that complaining about the commercials blaring away and destroying the mood eventually held sway, I guess.
Be careful about recording too low and cranking the SPL up, though. As with all things sampled/digital, you run the risk of amplifying quantizing noise, the same way we get banding in 8-bit video.
The other gotcha is that as overall levels get cranked up and down, the overall relative mix between dialogue, music and effects will change perspective, and what, at high levels, sounds evenly distributed, will get crowded with some elements starting to overwhelm or get buried by others. Thats the beauty and mystery of sound mixing.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Shane Ross] “MPEG STREAMCLIP”
Hand Brake works surprisingly well.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Shane Ross] “External converters ONLY when all other solutions fail”
Shane, have you tried the Calibrated{Q} MXF Import for OSX?
I purchased and installed it because I needed to be able to play back XDCam masters for closed captioning, and it seems to be working very well, even inside FCP.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Kyle Haskett] “I am downloading on a set with an audio engineer who is using the Sound Devices 664 recorder. When he records his 1K on set, the mixer tells him it is recording at 0dB. When I bring the .wav files into FCP or ProTools, the 1K reads at -20dB. “
The issue is with the definition of “0” dB.
Your field recorder is most likely set to conform with “broadcast” “0” VU which is actually +4dBu, which corresponds to the “0” found on the meters on tape recorder faceplanes.
This in fact corresponds to -20 dBfs which is what you are seeing on the Final Cut timeline… which is also confusingly calibrated to reflect a “0” of -12 dBfs…
Yes, it is a mess.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Andy Winter] “but can this have something to do with the simple detection of the second card?”
Two Titans? I had trouble powering one. That must be one heavily customized Mac. No warranty support for that one anymore, right?
Under Apple “About this Mac”… do both cards show up in the system?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Eric Denis] “Am I missing something? “
Maybe Resolve is not the right tool for this instance. I’d be tempted to run the sequence out to SHAKE, where you can keyframe the Smoothcam node until after the cows have come home, had a beer, watched TV and gone to bed.Its old school, but…
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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You could also try to flag down James Wicks in West Palm Beach… among other things, this is what he *does*.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[TJ Kim] ” Flame guy will do the rest of it.”
Pretty much how these things go.
We flipped a red Prius into “Eco Green” for a local power utility who was giving one away for a promotion. That was about 12 or 13 years ago now, we weren’t working in HD, and it took a team of colorists and graphic artists a week to roto and grade the thing. It would have been cheaper to just re-paint the actual car, but they wouldn’t allow us to do that… even though that model was available (but not to us) in that color.
The thing about these supposedly straightforward tasks is that there is a blizzard of details that the team needs to solve — the noise inherent in the media, motion blur in the swish pans, dust in the air, the fact that the car (in my case) also has *red* tail lights, and so on and on…
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.