Mark Maness
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Well…. I understand your pain. I have a project that I am currently working on that has really really bad timecode on the tape.
My client handed me a bunch of tapes from a dinner banquet that was supposed to be shot by a professional production company and they realtime synced their tapes. Well, let me tell you…. timecodes are all over the spectum. Its a real mess. FCP has a reall problem with this and I would have retimecoded the tapes but they are an hour a half long each on BetaSP.
Ho Hum…… I’m just going to fumble thru this mess and pray that it turns out great. You know…. Make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t!
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Wayne Carey
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I didn’t have to do any of that. I just ran Software Update and it comes up with the 5.1.1 update. So far, so good!
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Wayne Carey
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Two things to look at….
First, is you deck set to iLink Convert to ON and is the Component setting set to 1080i/480i?
Next, are you using the FCP Easy Setup preset or did you create one yourself? When I used the one supplied by Apple, I could see my video only on my Mac, not on my studio monitor. Later, I did find out that if I had my capture card set to 1080i 60 that I could see thru.
Give those a shot!
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Wayne Carey
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Ok… I’m sorry if I came off sounding like a preacher on HDV. It absolutely amazes me how many people use it with understanding it first.
Let me ask you this… Why are you using After Effects to convert your video? Compressor would work alot better. It would put it into a proper format that FCP can use. I think your long renders are due to the fact that AE uses RGB rather than YUV color space and it seems like you may be having translation issues between it and FCP’s HDV. Try using Compressor to convert your video and give that a shot but be warned it should be an overnight process because Compressor is very thorough and slow but the results are fantastic.
Again, I appologize if I sounded like an ass…
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Wayne Carey
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Well… Let me ask you this. Why are you working in the native HDV codec? Its extremely slow and exhustive on your system. To understand what I am talking about you need to know about HDV and Long GOP method of recording. Most all video is using what is called an I-Frame method, HDV is completely different, that is why the Batch Capture screen is so very different in FCP.
According to Sony, HDV was created wholely to be a transport stream, not an edit stream, meaning that HDV was to be used to transfer data to tape and then to a hard drive in a format that can be edited. That is partially why there are timecode problems when you have to go back and recpature at a higher resolution. The other is the complicated Long GOP method – to define it simply, for every I-Frame there is 14 frames of GOP (groups of pictures). So basically for every second of video there is two accurate frames of video and the others are just interpolated images between the I-Frames.
So…. to make a long story short, that is why it takes soooooo long to render a timeline or Print To Tape. The codec has to literally build each and every frame of video to the HDV standard and it would take the most powerful computer in the universe to be able to do this in realtime (by today’s technology).
To simplify things tremendously, you really should capture using any other HD codec for the purposes of speed and quality.
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Wayne Carey
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Before going that far… Check Apple’s support site for this problem. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with a Quicktime upgrade. You could also do a search here on the Cows. There were several people having this problem a few months ago that I saw in some posts on this forum.
Did you recently upgrade any software like FCP or Quicktime?
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Wayne Carey
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Well, I guess its possible… I wouldn’t expect to edit uncompressed or HD video unless you are using DVCPRO HD in which you might be able to edit over gigabit ethernet. What kind of video are you editing? DV?
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Wayne Carey
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Well, here’s the puzzling thing that will really twist your rope… I am exporting complete 30 mintue shows without commercials and saving them as entire files (not reference media). The files are around 8.15G each. Yes, they are huge but its the only way for me to archive shows that I can make dvds or additional show copies after the show has aired. So basically, I’m not exporting a timelime, mine are just simple Quicktime files in the IMX50 codec. And just like yours, it occurs very randomly between each compression of the programs. Screwy, ain’t it!
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Wayne Carey
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I’m sorry, John. You’re absolutely right. It just angers me when a computer company says such outlandish things such as what Erlend was told. Almost eht entire industry is fueled by greed rather than product and it really sets me off when I see this or hear of it.
Media100 did a similar thing to my company years ago so we decided not to renew the useless agreement they had. Now, you can see we wised up and got a real program to actually do some serious editing….
I agree with everything you said, John. FCP 5.1 is a significant update. That’s why its good to know if Apple’s stand is really a poor one and then consult with a laywer about this. I didn’t mean to jump the gun. It just strikes me raw that a company like Apple would do this. Hopefully, its just a misunderstanding.
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Wayne Carey
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I would suggest you get in contact with a laywer and discuss this with them. But usually, the law seems to side with the companies. The only real solution to this problem is to stir a huge stink within this community and make it know to Apple.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions