Matt Devino
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You want non-drop, although I don’t think drop frame TC even exists in HD. 99% of all professional workflows use non-drop TC. You can always convert to drop frame at the end if that’s what your delivery requirement is, although i doubt it would be, but your camera should be shooting non-drop so stick with that for editorial.
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Thanks, I ended up just exporting out a quicktime in the TGA codec from my final cut timeline, without rendering anything first, and brought that back into a new final cut sequence and razor bladed all my cuts back in. Not a perfect solution but at least I didn;t have to render out every motion file individually.
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Yes,
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Cool got it to work in motion, it’s the same thing but tracks are reversed and you have to put the group composite mode to normal instead of pass through. Thanks for your help.
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They’re music videos that have been finished and stored on a hard drive. The master tapes were sent to clients long ago. I’m editing a reel for someone. You’re probably right about it being a whacky QT file. I just find it strange that 2 seperate files from 2 seperate FCP systems done months apart from eachother by 2 different editors have the same problem in FCP6. Also a bit odd it plays fine in the viewer and in QT. If it works in FCP5 I’ll post back up here. Thanks for your help.
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As long as you do you offline at the same timebase as your online you should be all set, i.e. if your finish is on HD at 23.98 do your offline at 23.98, and make sure if you’re editing from DVCAM or any other 29.97 format you remove your pulldown before you edit. Of course if your source was 29.97 stay at 29.97. Then once you’re done you can either go the EDL route or Automatic Duck (which is better), although neither are perfect. If it’s possible you may want to think about doing your online in Final Cut, it will save you a lot of time and money if you have a lot of effects in your Final Cut timeline.
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What codec are you editing in? What was the footage shot on? Are you capturing 29.97 or 59.94 footage as 23.98? Sounds to me like that’s what’s going on and the fields you’re seeing are pulldown that wasn’t removed.
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Tried that, changed the easy setup to DVCPRO HD 720P24, made a new sequence, placed clip in timeline, still needs to render. I’m starting to think it’s a bug in FCP 6 from FCP 5, it’s only doing this with files exported out of FCP 5 that are DVCPRO HD movies exported as “Final Cut Quicktimes” (Files made by export>quicktime movie, not export>using quicktime conversion). Files that were made the same way using Final Cut 6 don’t have this problem. I know this shouldn’t matter, which is why this is driving me a little crazy. Also I still don’t get why the auto setup feature in FCP6 isn’t working with these clips, it works on codecs like H264 that aren’t even editing codecs. I’m going to try and open the file on a FCP5 system and see if it works.
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I’m fairly certain they were exported correctly. I’ll go back tonight and open up my original project and re-output to make sure. Both Final Cut and QT say the files are DVCPROHD 720P60 23.98, which should play back fine. Also it still doesn’t explain why Final Cut still wants to render after it says it has converted the sequence to the format of the clip. Thanks for your help, I’ll keep digging into it.
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One more update – I was able to duplicate the problem on 2 other systems, one G5 running FCP 6.0, and one Mac Pro 8core running FCP 6.0.1. Only difference is it plays back smooth in the viewer, but the timeline still needs to render even after Final Cut says it’s changed the sequence to the clip’s format. Thanks for your help everyone.