[Mark Laslo]

Hi Steve,

I’m still a bit new to Final Cut Pro and while I can do what I need to do efficiently, I’m always curious to learn about the “gotchas” as I believe they are called.’

If it’s not too long to type out – what was the problem/solution?

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks All,

I checked out both Sony pairs at B&H and they look decent. I’m going to try and see if there is a place nearby that carries good headphones – probably Guitar Center would be my best guess. My next question is B&H offers them with the Pearstone Deluxe earpads and I was curious if either of you bought the deluxe earpads and if you thought they were worth it compared to the normal earpads.

I’ve used a pair of Sony’s before in the field and I do like them, very comfy. Thanks for the advice.

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Hi Steve,

Have you tried clearing out your render files and then re-rendering your sequence. It’s possible that these frames are just located in an old render file and the system is still referring to that instead of whats actually in the time line.

Hope that helps,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

I agree with Steve that the type of footage is important.

Without that information my suggestion would be make sure you aren’t playing back any footage while doing the transfer/transcode. You are able to do so with Final Cut but it pauses the transcode process while clips are playing back.

Hopefully that helps,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks all for the responses,

Jon – That is how the clips are being pulled in when I do log and transfer from the AVCCAM footage and I never realized it was 29.97 instead of 59.94. I am going to check my settings and see if I missed a setting because I am pretty sure the HMC-150 shoots 720P. I’m still learning the ropes of tapeless HD.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Also I just realized I may be doing this wrong but I am not exporting my motion project, but instead directly importing the motion file onto the timeline. Is this proper or wrong?

Thanks
Mark

[Mark Laslo]

I could not find ProRes as an option anywhere in the project settings, could you point me in the right direction? It was not in the area where I chose the HDV preset.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

I may be wrong, but as far as I know if you are capturing with Final Cut Pro there is no way to simultaneously edit with Final Cut Pro. You may be able to do it with two different editors but it would most likely be a bad idea as the system really can’t handle processing that much data. The hard drive would not be able to read and write fast enough and you’d probably end up with drop frames in your capture or other issues.

Your best bet is to just capture what you need and then edit after you capture. Sorry for the bad news.

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Sorry to dig up an old topic but I am trying to solve my footage being choppy and I’m not sure if its the same issue.

I have the panasonic HMC 150 and when I am working at 720P NTSC ProRes and it seems after working for a while the footage gets a bit stuttery and jumpy. I notice it most in mouth movement where it seems frames are being dropped. When I close FCP and restart the program it sometimes is better, when I restart the computer it is usually good for a while. I am running a 2.66 quad core mac pro with 8 GB or ram

1) could you explain the 3:2 pulldown to me – I do not know what this is
2) Do you think this is what my problem could be – final output seems fine
3) any suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks Chris,

I’ll try that, though I noticed when I used the H.264 codec that my cross-dissolves seem to get a lot of extra artifacts. My workflow for this had been work in HD and then convert to H.264 in compressor with these settings – of which i guessed at –

Name: H.264 700Kbps Streaming copy
Description: H.264 for medium-bandwidth streaming
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: 495.36 MB/hour of source
Audio Encoder
IMA 4:1, Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 75
Min. Spatial quality: 25
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 25
Average data rate: 0.717 (Mbps)
Maximum data rate: 0.717 (Mbps)
Hinted for QuickTime
streaming server

Our server seems to be able to handle people watching at between 500 and 700 kbps without running into buffer issues. This makes making the push to HD not possible at current, at least to my knowledge. Any suggestions are appreciated.