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The DVD authoring people should tell you what they want. I would expect them to want the audio as separate wav or aif files clearly labelled, not as part of the quicktime file you supply. If you drop the six tracks into FCP, you will need to set up your sequence audio outputs for multi channel export and map your outputs so that each track has a discreet output. The manual will help in setting that up.
As an audio pro, I always supply a stereo fold down of the 5.1 rather than trust the auto fold down done by DVD players or amps. At some stage, you might need a stereo mix for broadcast so the fold down needs to be compressed & peak limited to be broadcast spec.
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Check the field order of the new clips and compare it to the sequence settings. If the field order is different, then use the shift fields filter to correct.
This is a very common topic so a search of this forum on fields or jitter should answer all the questions that the manual doesn’t.
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Did you try using Media Manager to copy the project to the other drive? Also I would never rename a folder. Call me old fashioned.
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There are boxes to convert SDI to HDMI. Don’t forget your Decklink will also be handy for edit to tape if you need to play your sequences out to digi beta or HDCam etc.
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Before entering a world of pain, I suggest you do a test OMF and send it with a reference QT file to your sound post people.
When syncing the audio in telecine, the file would have been sped up 4% to sync. After Cinema Tools it has been slowed down again so pitch is correct. The trick is to hope that the OMF labels the files as 48khz.
If that all works, then apart from potential render issues to play a big fat timeline with lots of audio tracks, I see no issue.
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The most important thing about your Decklink is to use it to monitor your FCP output. If you never use it to ingest, it will still be vital to your professional monitoring. Use the component outs to your Samsung monitor for starters.
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Never once in the PAL broadcast world have I been asked for letterbox. It throws a way a lot of resolution.
Don’t use a DV sequence for your SD downconvert. That is a poor SD codec. Uncompressed or ProRes are best. Search the forum for ideas on how to end up with SD from HD as it has been covered here many times. My prefered workflow is to stay HD and then hardware downconvert at the end to SD.
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A drag and drop will mean files need to be reconnected.
Media Manage will solve that but when you return, if you go back to your old drive, you will need to reconnect.
Try Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive.
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Animation is not an editing codec so will need render. Uncompressed is good if your drives are fast enough, but why then use a DV sequence? Try to have your sequence and files matching, so an uncompressed sequnece is what you want
Audio should be 48khz.
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[Elizabeth McGraw-Austin] “Why isn’t FCP6 figuring this out for me?”
Because it can only do so much. It needs the clips to match a list of codecs, frame rates and frames sizes. If you have chosen a codec, rate or frames size that it has to render, then your clips are not in a format that FCp can automatically match your sequence settings to.
Thee are lots of variations in video land that FCP can work with. There are however, many more variations that it can’t edit natively. You need to choose a combination within the long list that FCP can edit without render.