[Michael]

I think all you want is a “c-mode list” that gives you the in and out points of all the used shots in ascending time code order (SOURCE time code, that is). If the ftg was properly telecined, yes, the transfer house can use this list to find the right piece of film.

Unlike Avid, FCP does not produce a good c-mode list. Here is the workaround:

Copy your sequence and remove all audio elements.

Create a new bin and drag all of the shots in your timeline into it.

In this new bin, sort the clips by “in”. This will give you a bin with all the shots in ascending time code order.

Now, create a new, empty sequence, highlight all of the newly sorted clips, and drag them all into the new sequence. You now have a sequence with the shots in ascending time code order.

Export a straight “a-mode” EDL of this sequence. That should be enough for telecine.

You might run into difficulty if your original dailies transfer went past the 24 hour clock.

We do this all the time.

Michael Heldman
Spot Welders

[Michael]

Walter, thanks again.

David: Of course you can’t loop hd through an SD monitor. I’m only thinking about SD to SD for the moment. I work mostly in SD. I want the pannny as a large client monitor, while I use a SD CRT for my ref.

I know SD doesn’t look too good on such a monitor. I guess I’ll just have to try one out and see if it’s good enough for my purpose (client viewing, not too close.)

Michael

[Michael]

Thanks for the info…

Walter, this may be a stupid question but…

What about normal SD material? Does the interpolation going on in the Panasonic cause any delay?

Michael

[Michael]

This drove me nuts too until I developed a new habit:

Instead of tapping directly on a clip to highlight it, I tap just outside the clip and drag into into it. This highlights the clip without moving it.

Very easy.

[Michael]

As an occasional whiner, I was about to respond to this thread, but Mr. Weiss said exactly what I wanted to say, just much more elegantly.

Good ideas are good ideas, whether they originate with FCP or Avid or any other program. For day-to-day editing, it’s often the little, and not very sexy, things that make work so much easier. How many of us, and for how long, have been asking for these little things, such as:

1. an easier to read GUI. Look at Motion or the screen shots of Color. That’s what I mean.

2. storing scratch disk and other settings with the project, not the computer.

3. keyframes that can be copied and pasted.

4. the ability to handle large projects without bogging down

5. better tracking of render files

6. the ability to create an edl (yes, some of us still use these on occasion), even if there’s a freeze frame in the timeline.

Improvements like these would not make headlines and turn heads. But they’d make my work a lot easier.

Perhaps some of these issues have been addressed. For example, the new feature allowing one to base a timeline’s settings on the settings of the first clip brought into it answers one such long-standing request.

So thank you, Apple, for improving Motion and giving us Color. These are tremendous values and I look forward to diving into them. Just don’t forget the little things.

[Michael]

Hi Shane, and thanks for the quick response.

I was afraid of that. And yes, your procedure is the best approach. It sure was convenient to have this in Avid land to remember “what 6 versions of this spot did I cut two wednesdays ago?”

I hope FCP makes this info available in the next version. It must embedded there somewhere.

Michael
Spot Welders

[Michael]

Here’s a thread about just this issue from early in Jan:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/919092?univpostid=919020&pview=t

[Michael]

Wow, two reponses within 15 minutes, and at night even. Thanks, fellow cows.

We only do a little HD at the studio now, and we’ve got some overpriced Luma monitors to view it.

Walter: Do you think, for SD, the Sony monitor you mentioned would be better than a Dell 24″?

MH

[Michael]

Thank you bee eph. That’s a good technique. I’ll try it.

Too bad we need a workaround for such a simple need

[Michael]

Duck could get a detailed sequence into Avid from which you could make a c-mode edl, but that’s overkill if you just want to re-sort a list. Just sending an EDL to Avid would work.

I was thinking the same thing about Bayes. Let’s hope.