[Lu Nelson]

PhotoJPEG at 75% supposedly works as a YUV 4:2:2 codec. I’ve had the same gamma troubles however…as far as I can tell it’s an issue with timeline playback. Worth noting:

1. if you turn off the display of overlays in your canvas, the stop/start issue should disappear (i.e. you should have the same gamma when playing as when playhead is stopped.

2. if you export your timleline to quicktime — at least, if you export to quicktime self-contained — your gamma issues will be gone from the exported file (though you may need to clear render files before you do this). then you can reload this file and play out to tape. It’s not a very professional solution as we expect to be able to play from the timeline but I think it’s just that Apple hasn’t bothered to make this codec work reliably as an editing codec so most people are just using it for archiving, or if onlining then they do a work around like I’ve described.

[Lu Nelson]

Put all your footage in to an SD 4:3 timeline, or whatever timeline matches exactly the dimensions you’re trying to get, and scale/center them all, as approriate. You can also apply color correction to them at this stage if you need to. Make sure your audio is not altered, unless you want it to be (you can raise levels, center pans, whatever). Then select all the clips in the timeline and drag them BACK TO THE BROWSER, TO A NEW BIN. This will give you a bin of new clips which have Motion, Filter and Audio settings inherited from the sequence you just dragged them out of. Then select all the clips in this bin, right click and use “Batch Export”. Select a location for the export in the Batch Settings dialog, but leave the output format as “Item Settings”. Export this and you’ll get the clips adjusted the way you want them.

[Lu Nelson]

Hi, yeah it depends on whether your footage has pulldown of some kind in it; i.e. was already 24p at some point, or whether you are also talking about converting your 30i footage to 24p at the same time. There’s a way to do that; but it’s very time intensive. If it is a matter of removing pulldown you can try selecting your footage in the bin and choosing “Remove 3:2 Pulldown using Cinema Tools” or “Remove Advanced Pulldown” – the latter is done by FCP I think; both will result in your footage and therefore your edits (anywhere you used that footage) being converted correctly, except I’ve noticed that Cinema Tools is not good at guessing the pulldown pattern properly and might just make a mash of your footage instead so back up all the footage files first (just duplicate them to another drive in the Finder). If Cinema Tools cannot guess the pulldown on your clips right, then you have to find another tool (DVFilm “Maker” does a good job: dvfilm.com) to remove the pulldown for you. You can do this to another duplicate set of your footage and then replace the files that have been destroyed by Cinema Tools’ conversion…but in any case you’ve got to use either of the “remove pulldown” tools I mentioned in order to get FCP to also do the most important part which is converting the edits wherever your footage is used.

If you’re talking about converting your FOOTAGE as well (i.e. it is 30i footage and you want it to be 24p), then you can use the Cinema Tools step (in this case it will definitely ruin your footage) and then replace the resulting 24p files with 24p files that have been converted with a tool that does it correctly (again: DVFilm Maker, or Magic Bullet, or Apple’s own Compressor, which is perhaps the best, but is slow). This is a tricky one so think it through.

[Lu Nelson]

No, it doesn’t come back — sorry I’m gettting back to this post so late; the problem went away again, but now it’s back. The audio is actualy on the LEFT side (I wrote that wrong the first time) and the RIGHT side is drastically reduced. If I put a clip in the timeline in FCP and pan it R, then crank the volume way up I can hear it, it’s very faint, cracky and tinny.

Any ideas?

THX,

Lu Nelson

[Lu Nelson]

really? that doesn’t work for me actually. I can’t get a right click option on KFs in the motion tab, only on ones I click in the canvas.

[Lu Nelson]

Sorry,

my last post was totally wrong, I tried to quickly recreate your situation and interpreted what I was doing the wrong way. Ease in/out should work — you click on the point you want to ease. What happens is that it tends to create an acceleration OUT of the other KF or IN to the other KF, whichever way you’re going. The thing I think to know, is that when you do it, your motion path then has two little handles on it and then a bunch of little dots indicating the speed of the movement — all marked in the same color, unfortunately. But look for the large dots: one is a bezier handle to curve the path, and the other is a speed handle, which if you slide along the path will allow you to control the accel/decel at the point you’re controlling.

[Lu Nelson]

I’ve seen this too — trying to actually work in the canvas for this is not very well-implemented in FCP.

The weird thing is that if you’ve got two KFs and you want it to ease OUT of the first one say, you have to actually control click (in the canvas) on the second one and select “ease in/out”. It’s the reverse if you want it to ease IN to the second one, i.e. you click on the first KF and select “ease in/out”. With more complex animations i.e. multiple KFs, I’m not sure —

Kevin Monahan on this forum should be the expert on this

[Lu Nelson]

Yeah, the last response by Mike Most is right. Open up Cinema Tools, cancel the Open dialog that comes up when you start the program, and look under the File menu for “Batch Conform”. When this dialog comes up, navigate to your folder with all your media files and select one of them. Hit Conform and select 23.98. Create a 23.98 project in FCP and re-import your media, then start cutting.

Good luck,

[Lu Nelson]

I’m using a Blackmagic DL Extreme Card, latest drivers, and a combination of both internal and external SATA drives, all running off of a Sonnet 4+4 Host Card. Works well.

[Lu Nelson]

So far no issues. I haven’t tried the aspect of Media Manager that was supposedly fixed yet; although I will be. It is supposed to have fixed handling of clips that have speed changes applied, when you do a “delete unused media” function. Otherwise, I find it actually faster and more stable than 5.0.4 on a PowerPC system so it’s been worth the risk so far