Michael Alberts
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Yes, but why would you want to. A DV signal, converted to analog, passed along via composite, then transcoded into DV50. Yikes, that’s gonna look horrible. If it’s strictly for offline and you plan on doing an online later than that’s fine. But composite? At the very least you should be using S-Video.
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You mentioned that you have five audio channels. Are you trying to output five discreet channels to the DSR-1500? The embedded SDI for that deck allows only four channels as far as I know.
Also, check your track output settings in the timeline. It’s a bit obtuse, but you need to right click on the track selector to see what track it’s patched to. If you’re trying to output four discreet channels to the deck you’ll need to set up a multi track output in the sequence settings. If you’re going for simple stereo just make sure that tracks are assigned properly in the timeline.
The Avid makes all this a bit simpler with it’s Audio Mix window where you assign tracks to their output channels. It’s all in one place on the Avid. In FCP it’s literally spread across three different windows (timeline, sequence setting, Edit To Tape).Michael Alberts
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What deck are you outputting to? Does your video hardware support more than 2 channel out. Is the auido getting output AES/EBU or SDI? Did you set-up multi channel audio output in sequence settings. You need to give us a lot more info so we can answer your question.
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You’re mixing up some of the terminology. When you “export” out of FCP you don’t apply any cropping to the image. Just export a reference file. In your encoding application (Compressor, Cleaner, Squeeze etc) you apply a crop to the image. This is done from one of the settings windows. Try a test and see how much is needed to eliminate the unwanted raster.
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You’re thinking in the wrong direction. Instead of doing a blow-up while editing the correct workflow is to do a crop while compressing. Most, if not all compression apps have the ability crop, usually meassured in pixels. Best to do an even pixel crop. 2,4,6 etc.
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Actually, FCP doesn’t generate TC at all. For years we have asked for that as a feature, but it’s still a no go. What FCP does do is send the TC start point down the RS-422 to the deck and the deck generates the TC.
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Or just use the FCP ETT function for Black And Code the tape. It takes no time at all to stripe a minute or two at the head of the tape. No need to do such a manual process. Just click the Black&Code button in the ETT window and set the desired timecode. FCP will do the rest.
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If you are using Compressor and compressing to MPEG2 you should try using the CBR setting for faster encodes. Next time give us a little more detailed info. We working blind here trying to help you.
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The Aurora Pipe Studio also inputs and outputs all types of connections (SDI, Component, Composite, S-Video for video and SDI, AES/EBU, SPDIF, XLR balanced analog and RCA unbalanced analog). All these connections are on the break-out-box. I just got an email this morning stating that it is now on sale for $1299.
The IO is also a good option, although editing with the IO box drives me batty when trying to edit music or dialogue.
Michael Alberts
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The DH Widesafe filter may be just the thing:
https://digital-heaven.co.uk/indexflash.htm
It’s really designed for working in 16×9, but I think it will work for your purposes. It get’s applied as a generator to the timeline.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.