[Martin Baker]

A BVW machine has an 8 bit timebase corrector so there’s no benefit at all in capturing to 10 bit. The extra resolution just isn’t there in the first place.

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

Gday

The Kona won’t help you in this case, you’d have to do the scaling in FCP. From what you’ve said it sounds like you want to deliver a 16:9 letterboxed version and a full frame (cropped sides) version. One question – have you been editing the project in a 16:9 anamorphic sequence or in a letterboxed sequence? It makes a difference in the best way to produce your full frame version.

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

Hmmm weird. Try selecting the AE clip in the timeline and going to Edit > Remove Attributes menu. Check the Basic Motion and Distort boxes (if you can) and hit OK. Does that fix it?

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

I’m puzzled – Where are you getting this 1024×576 frame size from if your sequence is set to 720×576 anamorphic?

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

Mark

This is very good advice about mindset and “not trying to turn it into an Avid”. I’ll be training two experienced Avid editors on FCP very shortly and I have a question about keyboard shortcuts – should I encourage them to embrace FCP’s native shortcuts or customise it to near Avid’s layout? Unfortunately the editors will be regularly switching between Avid and FCP in the future rather than going with FCP exclusively.

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

Unfortunately there isn’t a better way. However it would be neat if it worked so if a destination filter was selected when you hit Paste that it forced an overwrite from the source filter rather than adding it to the list. One for a feature request perhaps –
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

I’m afraid such a device doesn’t exist. Is this for monitoring? All FCP capture cards will happily take a DVCPRO50 timeline and output it if that’s what you need.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

There are some audio quirks when transferring clips between 4.5 and 5. Try exporting an XML file (in XMLv1 format) from FCP5 and then importing that into FCP4.5 which might fix it.

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

“4. A static 2 or 4 screen box display during slip and slide. I hate having to hold mouse and slide.”

4 way trim view definitely won’t appear – Avid have a patent on it. Discreet Edit got away with using the idea but I can’t see Apple doing the same 😉

Martin
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[Martin Baker]

You should treat any letterboxed footage as 4:3 because that’s essentially what it is. This way the aspect ratios will work out so you can just zoom the clip up to fill the 16:9 frame.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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