Michael Sacci
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WOW! 30+ that is scary cool.
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Extra steps = a lot of extra time and the won’t that TC be from the sequence and not the clips?
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There is nothing demanding about transferring P2 footage. It is basically a copying of files with a conversion thrown in.
Did you purchase all these drives at the same time? Wonder if you got a bunch from a bad lot of drives. I love Panasonic cameras, I coming to grips with the workflow but I would so much rather be shooting on tape. I feel your pain.
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I have never done the above but that might help speed up what I do.
First, break the record thumb of the cameramen, then
Make a sequence that TC starts at the same spot as the first clip, then place all the clip at their respective spots on the timeline, that way the clips TC always matches the sequence TC. This will produce black video gaps where the cameramen stopped rolling.
Finally export the sequence and now you have a single clip of the camera angle that has the correct TC as all the other clips.
Add this to the other camera angles.
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did you have to P2 cards in the camera, if you did you have to mount both folders at the same time.
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It would be much better to up-convert to Uncompressed before you start added the graphics and titles. That is where you will get the most bang for the buck. Graphics and edges of text are what really get killed with DV.
As for later, I would do a start test to see if you can see any benefit, my guess is you won’t see much if any.
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That is the TC that FCP uses and as far as I know it cannot get it from someplace else. check to see if there is a way to export the files from Premiere that merges the video and TC, from however it handles it.
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First, is the TC in the file?
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Not passing judgment just passing info, basically what you have done is to pirate software. It would be the same as loading FCS2 on someone else’s computer. The codec belongs to Panasonic and the license it to whom ever they want and like I said for whatever reason have not made it publicly available. Most codecs are free from the decode side, some are open source and free to use and encode. H.264 can be used to give HD quality all the way down to web video, what you pay to use it is time to encode.
Once again, I don’t mean to be preachy.
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Open a clip up in QT player and go to Window > SHow Movie Properties and see if there is a Timecode track listed. If not then the TC is not embedded in the file like it should be.
I don’t know how Premiere captures and stores the TC but this is a way to check to see if it is where FCP would read it.