Josh Olenslager
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Tom,
If you’re comfortable using compressor, I’d create a custom setting before exporting. I think there’s a function that allows you to select “so source plays at 29.97” which might help with the pulldown issue you’re seeing. I’m not at my editing system now, so I can’t direct you right to it, but there are also deinterlace and field-dominance functions that you can look at. (Options such as fast, best motion, motion compensated, etc.) Might try a custom setting and then see how it looks.
If you’ve already got an exported quicktime and you’re not averse to experimenting with it, you could also try the conform function in Cinema Tools and see if it can do a frame reordering that helps get rid of the chop. I’ve seen it happen once or twice.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Eric,
are you using export using QT conversion or straight export QT movie? Double check that you have export both Audio and Video when the export box comes up — also, is the export coming out with a black or white screen in a QT container or just the audio player? I’m assuming you’ve checked your sequence settings and also that your video tracks in the timeline aren’t muted. What is your end export format? Is this for web by chance?
Not sure if there is an update for 5.0.4, but it wouldn’t hurt to check. Best thing to try off the top is just checking all of your sequence and export settings. It sounds like there is a little something going on there.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Jason,
after you’ve imported your clips, select all of the ones you need to be tagged as anamorphic, move to the anamorphic column and right-click to select yes. Sort of like a batch select setting.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Gary,
Open your exported batch list in excel. Select “all” to highlight your text and go to the “DATA” menu in the task bar. Next select the “Text to Columns” function. Once the window opens choose “delimited.” A window will open that allows you to select something to recognize as a column break character (probably “space” in your particular case). Select one of the options, and Excel should separate your block of text into columns.
Hope this helps!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Thanks Rafael, absolutely right. Sometimes I read too fast. Got stuck on the crossfade.
whoops!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Hey Chris,
As long as you’re using the sequence with the filters you just applied, the print to video should pick up the TC overlay. If you only want to print certain sections of the Timeline, set in and out points around the section you need and that is what will be sent out to the deck. If you’re just using the imported media (not the sequence with the overlay) the source TC won’t be displayed.
Good luck!
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Use the “Timecode Reader” from your – video filters/video – effect folder and place this filter on each clip. It will read the source TC imported with your media.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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It sounds like the length of your media doesn’t allow for the crossfade to bridge the two clips. You’ll need a bit of pad to cover the fade between the two clips. Look at the clip that the fade won’t cover and make sure there is enough head (or tail) to cover the length of the crossfade. The transition needs enough media on each clip to compensate the overlap of the fade.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Are you editing from your capture scratch folder? That might be why the new captures are overwriting the media that you’re already using. I would suggest moving the captured media into a dedicated editing folder. If that isn’t going to work for you, try naming your capture project something different so that FCP creates an new subfolder inside of capture scratch, or make sure that what you’re capturing doesn’t have the same name as what you’ve already used in edit. Example: clip name “b” “c” and so on. I sounds like you’re overwriting media to me. Make sure each item you intend to capture has a unique name so that it doesn’t interfere with what you’ve already got going.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Try doing a capture now (still with a controllable device setting so it reads the TC). Keep your same set-up with the “make new clip on TC break” checked. The problem with batch capturing from your logs, it sounds like, is that when FCP looks for the TC settings of in and out, once the program sees the non-continuous TC it assumes that it has reached the end of what is on that tape. This is because it has no way to locate where, for example, hour 10 starts when hour 9 only gets to minute 58 or something. It can’t bridge the gap between the 58 minute mark and the start of the new hour. Capture now might be a bit messier, but it should allow FCP to plug away at the tapes and push past the first clip capture only problem that you’re seeing. The program will keep the naming convention rolling (…-1, …-2, etc.) if you’ve got it set up properly. Otherwise it’s walk to the deck for each of the logged clips and manually set the TC into that time-frame on the log so that FCP can recognize that the TC actually exists on your tapes.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion