[Mark Maness]

Sure… I understand. Make sure that you have a copy of your nested sequence in your project first (for safety reasons). Open your nest, copy the media, go back to your original timeline, delete your nest, and paste your media back to where it came from. After all that, you’ll need to relink your audio so that you don’t have any sync problems. That’s it!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Same here…!

Once you purchase the Flip4Mac Studio, you can then create a profile in Compressor to make all of your conversions for you so that you don’t have to do them one at a time.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

[Gary Adcock] Maybe because XDcam is still HDV no matter what you call it or how you work with it.

That’s very true, Gary. But Sony will tell you that the purpose of HDV is to be a data transport medium, not a video stream. Yeah, this can present problems but with the right capture card, you can capture at any codec and solve the problems of HDV. True, again, HDV is not a great medium for film out but it was meant to be a broadcast format, in which, it works beautifully.

To be perfectly honest, if I had the budget, I would go with the Panasonic AJ-HDC27H camera and work entirely in DVCPRO HD. Panasonic does make some absolutely awesome video but I still don’t like the concept of P2 and the constant swaping of those expensive cards.

By the way, I agree completely with James, Panasonic’s HD Log software should be free to all Panasonic customers that are using HD style cameras. It only makes sense for it to be a free software. Sony can do it, why can’t Panasonic?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

[Gary Adcock] Maybe because XDcam is still HDV no matter what you call it or how you work with it.

That’s very true, Gary. But Sony will teel you that the purpose of HDV is to be a data transport medium, not a video stream. Yeah, this can present problems but with the right capture card, you can capture at any codec and solve the problems of HDV. True, again, HDV is not a great medium for film out but it was meant to be a broadcast format, in which, it works beautifully.

To be perfectly honest, if I had the budget, I would go with the Panasonic AJ-HDC27H camera and work entirely in DVCPRO HD. Panasonic does make some absolutely awesome video but I still don’t like the concept of P2 and the constant swaping of those expensive cards.

By the way, I agree completely with James, Panasonic’s HD Log software should be free to all Panasonic customers that are using HD style cameras. It only makes sense for it to be a free software. Sony can do it, why can’t Panasonic?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Ok fellas….

Let’s make this a little easier for xstimux. I understand your pain and can sympathize with you! Just to make it easier on you. Digitize your footage at 720p60 and use Cinema Tools / Compressor to do the conversion for you. Sometimes real life situations make for a rough time compared to the theory of the way software is supposed to work.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Liam,

David is correct with his comments but one thing to check out. If you have the new FCS 5.1 Universal Upgrade, do a test to see if they have corrected the speed change with clips and Media Manager. From all of the info I have read, the new 5.1 upgrade was supposed to fix this major problem. I haven’t had a chance to try it out myself. But take a look at that first, it may save you some headaches in the future.

Good luck with your project and SAVE often!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Thanks, Jeremy! Your suggestion seemed to be the only solution for my problem but I did simplfiy it a little. I ended up just copying the captured footage thru my network and just relinking the audio only after I unlinked my video and audio sources in the timeline. So, I kept the new video and relinked the old audio – works fine!

Thanks again! I love this resouce of help!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

I’m sorry gang… its sometimes difficult to put confusing things into words for me from time to time when a dealine is brewing.

Ok…. Here’s my problem. I have a timeline with one video track and one audio track in it. The video is not the problem, the problem is that the one track of audio was captured as audio channel 2 on this edit station, but the machine actually shows the audio on channel 1. This edit station has an AJA IO for video capture, the audio is connected thru the IO also. Its using a Sony HDV deck as its source (downconvert HDV to DV – component video out with analog audio). The deck is controlled by the firewire connection for machine control. I have to capture the footage as DV on this edit station.

Now, I have a project that needs that timeline and footage to be used on another edit station. I copy over the project thru my network and open it in FCP. This edit station has a AJA Kona 2 as its capture card. This room also has a Sony HDV deck installed with an AJA HD10A converter, so that I can convert my deck’s analog HD component out as HD-SDI. I use the firewire port for machine control and for audio. This capture card has no analog audio and video inputs so hooking that up is not an option.

I’m sure you’ll say that could cause problems with sync issues, but I have been using it this way for the past three months without any issues at all.

Now, for the capture process… I capture all of my footage as IMX50 or DVCPRO HD on this edit station. All of the audio comes thru firewire. I have created my custom Easy Setups for these situations. When I capture this footage… my audio now comes in as channel 1, not channel 2 as on the other edit station, and my timeline only has one track of audio which is the wrong audio track now.

Now for the question again…

Is there a way to tell FCP that channel 2 is channel 1 without having to re-edit the timeline? Surely, somebody has seen this or has had this problem before. By the way…. the audio cables have been swapped to their correct order in edit room 1. 🙂

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Walter, Can you go to another machine that doesn’t have the update applied to it and has internet access? If so, you can download the update and save it under the tab Update – Download Only or Install and Keep Package.

I do this all of the time because I have only one machine on the net that is my backup machine but my main system is not connected. That way I can apply these updates after I know they work fine without messing up my main system.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions

[Mark Maness]

Here’s my two cents… for whatever its worth.

I have found out that TV stations are going to do whatever they want to do to get the program to air. All we can do as production houses is to deliver the product in the best possible format that we have available. If they specify a format, then you need to follow that format. If they don’t, contact them an ask what are the formats they use.

We shoot in HDV and XDCAM. There are absolutle no stations that use those formats for air just yet (in the outdoors industry). We have to dub all of our finished product to BetaSP for the moment.

So…. what it comes down to is the best for what we have to deliver the product. Keep in mind, that all cable and satellite networks always compress their programs to MPEG2 for distribution. Depending on who they are depends on the quality of the signal. NBC and ESPN are going to be crystal clear as compared to The Outdoor Channel, who is a lesser network in the eyes of the distributor.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions