[Kevin]

Thatnks Steve,

Very good point. I’m sure at some point I would be incorporating a roving camera running good old fashioned tape. I guess though anything I’m going to sync edit in a multiclip would be continuous so I would just manually syn by in-point?

Peace,

K.

[Kevin]

Hi Tom,

Many thianks for his great post.

I have a few followups if I may.

How do you typically combine all the individual clips you get from the Firestore drive before you edit? Subclip?

[Tom Matthies] “ust make sure that you allow yourseld enough preroll when shooting time of day code.”

What happens if I have to respond and shoot quite quickly without allowing preroll as often is the case. Is this more for the integrity of the TC on the drive or to ensure matching TC on tape and drive.

Also, In retro record mode, what happens with if you have it set to say 2 seconds. The video and TC on drive and tape would be diffferent?

Many thanks for sharing the benefot of your experience.

Peace,

K.

[Kevin]

Thank you Steve for posting back. Very good point. I’ve no idea how FCO would handle this. I wonder what timecode goes onthe retro cache pre-roll and how? I’ll call In Fpocus and ask about that.

Peace,

K.

[Kevin]

Hi David,

Thanks for the clarification on setting up the ime code with the remote. That was on my list of to-dos for later and I posted that question on the Panasonic board. Very timely.

Yes I’m with you on the nature of shooting only digitally. I’ll always shoot both tape and drive. I gues with the new Pannies, they will come up with a dual system for safety like most still photographers I know record simultaneously to two cards.

With that in effect the odds of a problem are probably around the same as what might happen with physical tape – and we’ve all experienced those too!

I will post back on my experiences. This time out is an experiment and I might be reverting to the tapes, but I want to give it a whirl and see if it saves time.

One big issue is juicing three Firestores for 10 hours. I bought three 90 and three 180 batteries (no snmall investment) and also some cheap rechargeable battery packs which go for 7 hours and plug to power the units DC. These also charge the drive battery at the saem time so I guess you just have to pick your times to juice up.

Peace,

K.

[Kevin]

Thank you so much David fpr posting back. All great advice. Yes for sure I’m taping also and always will. I’d like to be able to toss the tapes in a shoe box though for emergency and not have to deal with and any dropouts either.

I will definitely also test. I have two new FS-4s arriving today so I’ll be able to give it all a whirl.

Great tip on the remote. I do have one and I definitely will use it for evnts whihch am recording fully but this one is an all day affair, corporate launch, so the cameras will be coming on an off all day.

Also taping the other cameras TC is a great tip, never tried that either but will.

Many thanks again for all this great input.

Peace,

K.

[Kevin]

Awesome. I will focus on Livetype. I have had reason touse it before, but I’ll find a tutorial and give it a whirl.

Many than ks to all to posted back.

Warmest,

K.

[Kevin]

Hi Walter, Shane and Wayne,

Many thanks in deed for th prompt responses.

I di use the Boris loer third tittler but it is a little limiting in terms of all I can customise is the colar of the background of the bar and font.

Ideally what I’d like to be able to do is substitute something more sophisticated, like a motion backgroud or a more visual interesting backgroud bar. Be nice if I could create one in AE or Motion and substitute it for the basic bar in Boris 3D.

I’ll look more closely at the CHV plus, maybe they are customisable.

Mnay thanks again all,

K.

[Kevin]

Apologies for the frequent partial posts. I think I fisxed the issue. I had accumulated three shortcut buttons int he button list for the various cut to video angle options which I think confused FCP. I optioned clicked on the shortcuts int he button list, clear everything and re-entered the ones I wanted and everything seems to work.

Hope this helps someone from scratching their heads for a few days like I have been doing.

warmest,

K.

[Kevin]

A further piece of info which might help pinpoint somethng wrong in my multiclip workflow is that when I am adding cut marks in the time line the marks dissappear but the angle show in the timeline is the last angle I tried to cut to. I noticed this as the thumnail changes to which ever angle I last selected.

Many thanks in advance for anyone who can see where I might be going wrong.

Kevin

[Kevin]

Thank you Michael and montador for posting back,

I downloaded the Ripple Training one which I found very worthwhile and clear. For what it’s worth the issue I was facing was to do with media mysteriously not synching up in the multiclip even though they did in the timeline. After many puzzled hours I ended up exporting the media and reimporting them and then everything worked perfectly. I’ve learned that with captured tapes, if there is any wonkiness that makes no sense, then I export the media and re-import it and everything works. I hope this post helps save someone some headscatching down the road.

Peace,

K.