[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Thanks so much, Mike!

Yes, the video was shot on tape. Before I got a new DP, my old DP was using the Canon XL2 and used the 24p mode (I don’t think it was advanced), and I think you may be right–it uses 3:2 pulldown to embed 24p in a normal NTSC video.

If I hit “continue” after that frame rate message, it seemed fine.

After recapturing my footage, the picture was small and distorted, so I had to remove basic motion and distortion attributes, and the size and footage looked normal again except for what looks to me like interlacing. I’m a first-time filmmaker, though, and could be wrong.

An editor friend said I can’t really trust my computer monitor for accurate playback and that I should see it on a monitor. But I don’t have one. Hmm…

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Happy update:

There is a special device preset tailored specially to non-drop-frame media. All I had to do was select that (Firewire NTSC NDF) and boom — it works! I found this solution in another forum.

Phew! 🙂

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Hey John,

Now that I don’t have my audio fixed (yay!) and general weirdness due to my my camcorder having been plugged into the same port as my hard drive (thanks for the help with that) AND I trashed prefs, I’m wondering why I’m still getting the non-drop-frame error messages when I try to recapture some of my footage hi-res.

The thing is, back when I was working on FCP 5, I never got that message. I was able to recapture these exact same clips to hi-res just fine. Also, I can tell in my browser which ones are drop frame and non-drop frame based on whether : or ;, but weirdly now even clips with ; are giving me the non-drop-frame message.

Is there something I’m missing in FCP 6 that allows one to switch? I’ve been reading the manual, and I understand the difference between the two, but I don’t see a clear answer here.

Again, any ideas would be so great!

Thanks again,
Marisa

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

OoooOOOOooooh. You were right–it was in my FCP audio setup. Now I feel silly because I thought it was way more complicated. THANK YOU, John!!!!

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Hi John,

Thanks so much for the good counsel. I had also daisy-chained my two G-RAIDS, so now I’ll just work with one at a time. I had been working with just one at a time with my camcorder, and it worked fine.

For some reason, the sound is still coming out of my camcorder, though. Just when I use Final Cut.

Have any other ideas about what I could do to fix that?

Thanks again!
Marisa

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Will do. Thanks!

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

This is getting weirder by the second.

It actually WILL paste the correct text, but all the text clips are CALLED by the same text clip name now.

Ex: the subtitle shows up in the timeline as “as well as their nesting box” but when you play it in the canvas, it shows up as what it’s supposed to be: “from registered producers.”

It’s happening with ALL the subtitles: they’re called by the same subtitle name in the timeline but show up as the correct subtitle in the canvas.

OH! I just got your reply to my last note. Thanks for the explanation re: create offline vs. copy. Will do media manager again with “create offline.”

How do I trash my preferences? Which ones do I trash? (Sorry!)

Thanks, as always!

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Hm. I’m having trouble copying and pasting between the sequences.

It always pastes something else–one particular subtitle. The same thing no matter what I “copy.” Argh…

What is the difference between doing copying in media manager vs. creating offline in media manager? I think my tech friend chose “copy” and not “create offline.” I guess my question is, how is re-capturing from an offline clip different from re-capturing from an online clip?

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Thank you!!!

Well, it worked for the text and photos but not the animation. The animation isn’t THAT big of a deal because I can plop in the hi-res master clip into my upres’ed file without too much finessing. It was the text and photos I was worried about.

When you say “Copy>Paste those bits into the sequence you are using to recapture and replace the wonky scaled shots.” I think I have to copy and paste them individually into the upres’d sequence because if I try to paste the reconnected text/graphics sequence onto my upres’d sequence, I get a message saying that “the edit cannot be done because a transition would be cut or an item to one side of a transition would become too short.”

It’s still better than rescaling and distorting, so thank you!

[Marisa Miller wolfson]

Thanks, Michael.

For some reason I thought I always had to use media manager to recapture clips and get them to hi-res, but I guess this is not the case.

So I need to redo all my motion effects all over again, then?

What’s frustrating is that I’ve used media manager and bumped some of these clips to hi-res before with no problem. I wonder why it’s going haywire now…

Thanks again,
Marisa