[Michael Oh]

God bless the juicy chess-club brain of Andy Mees – that was exactly it – I’ve worked with FCP for 10 years now and I did not know that feature existed. (control-click on the lock next to the audio tab and you get a drop-down menu for track output assignment) – or I did know about it and forgot – I _am_ getting old.

Also want to give you props Andy for your guide generator. I love that thing. (that is you right ? again – “old”)

Gotta love the cow too.

Thanks !

Mike

[Michael Oh]

Thanks for the responses – it seems to be my lack of a rigorous problem-solving methodology (re: I’m lazy). I went back to the clips and was able to change what I thought I could not change previously.

Michael

[Michael Oh]

Thanks for your post. The XDCAM exporter will not let you write to XDCAM disk until you have the proper settings configured as Sony/XDCAM dictates.

I think there is something going on in the actual XDCAM audio file structure that I am missing and that is not obvious in FCP (hell, I had never even heard of “dual mono” until all this started).

The thing that is making me think this is that a SD DVD made from XDCAM material edited in the AVID sounds great (has full stereo). The stereo menu music on that DVD (that I made) is full stereo. But the music in the DVD version of the XDCAM pieces I’ve edited on FCP do not have full stereo.

at this point, would it be better to be posting on the XDCAM forum ? I posted here since that was where previous questions of this nature had been posted.

thanks

Michael

[Michael Oh]

thanks for your response

If only it were that simple (this is the first thing I did) – I was hoping that someone who has the same setup (FCP outputting to XDCAM and having to make the sequence dual mono) and had already figured this out.

In addition, there is anomalistic (to anything I’ve seen) behavior when it comes to panning camera generated XDCAM clips – (mic 1 on L, mic 2 on R, when panned hard left and right, does not affect their placement in the left right spectrum)

gotta ouput 26 hour-long stereo shows soon – would be nice to figure this out.

thanks

Michael

[Michael Oh]

thanks bill – I must have been getting a brainwave from you.

[Michael Oh]

answered my own question – here is one way to do it:

the anamorphic check box is simply telling FCP to change the aspect ratio by -33.33

1.if you double click on a clip in the sequence, it will load it into the viewer. Under the motion tab, twirl down the aspect ratio category, and change the -33.33 to 0

2. Make sure the clip is still selected and hit apple-c to copy this attribute.

3 select all clips in the sequence you want to change and from the edit drop down menu choose “paste attributes” and choose “distort” from the dialogue box that comes up.

This has stumped me for years – if you know of a simpler way, please let me know. (nesting a 4:3 sequence in an anamorphic sequence does not work as far as I can tell)

Mike O