[Mike Simpson]

We selected continue before and just ended up with a project set at 25 frames per second so it was useless.

It’s the weekend now so I’m outa here! Not got any intels at home so can’t try anything while away.

I think i may have to start a new thread next week as the title of this is unrelated to the current issue.

Thanks for keeping an eye on this.

Enjoy your weekends…if you get to have one!

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

Right…we just installed FCP/Studio on our 27″ iMac so we definitely up to date with all software.
Here’s what we have tried to get an offline version of the SD project to a 720P50 offline version:

Media Manager
Create Offline
Set Sequence to HDV 720P50

clicked ok

then got this warning:

Frame Rate Conflict Error
The frame rate of the preset chosen to reset your new offline sequences to differs from items in your selection.
The preset’s frame rate will be ignored, and the original frame rate of the items in your selection retained.

Abort or Continue….we aborted

So – what is the point in media manager if it cannot do this?

Any more ideas?

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

@Rafael – Interesting theory. Not sure how we can confirm that.

@Tom – I’m actually away form the office now so will have a look at what message FCP came up with when the media manager method didn’t work.
The version of FCP is, I believe, the newest available and installed on a dual core intel macbook pro.
It was something to do with the selected format was 50P but the original was 25 so it couldn’t complete it and would keep the new settings at 25 – which was pretty much useless!

I’ll be sure to post on here in the morning when i get chance to look at the project. I have plenty of other work to be getting on with so it may not be first thing. We have a couple of i7 27″ iMacs turning up tomorrow so may well shift this project over onto one of those to get going with.
Thanks for your interest in this.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

Thanks for reading the original post.

The footage was shot on JVC GY-HD251 cameras over here in PAL land.
We started to shoot this prior to owning any intel machines so at the time were not capable of ingesting the 720P50 HDV material so we downscaled the footage from the deck – you can select this in the menus and output SD over component. FCP was not capable of editing HDV 720P50 material at the time either.

It was then captured at DVPAL resolution.

Now that we do have the ability to edit at 720P50 HDV we want to!

For the time being we have decided to alter the in points of our media by 1 frame to get over this little hiccup but our next issue is going to be creating the SD DV PAL sequence but in 720P50.

If anyone has any clues how to do this I’d love to hear it.
Like I mentioned at the top Media Manager doesn’t seem to behave properly. I would expect to be able to create an offline version of the project and select HDV as the new compression settings but FCP doesn’t seem to want to do this hence looking for workarounds.

Again…any help is truly gratefully received.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

Aha…thanks Shane.

That makes sense. I’ve obviously seen the conforming prior to footage being played out but didn’t realise that HDV couldn’t be streamed out over firewire as i had previously presumed.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

I’d agree with Walter and go with Episode – it’s pretty good value and very very capable.
I understand that sorenson and autodesk have products too but not sure how much they cost compared to episode.
Happy encoding.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

Thanks for your responses guys…much appreciated.

We already have an AJA Kona LH installed on one of our machines but annoyingly, and I have been pushing for this not to be the case for some time now, the mac is only a dual G5, and therefore not Intel, running FCP 5 and as far as i am aware is unable to run FCP 6 which has the capability of capturing and playing back 720P50 HDV material.

The machine we captured the 720P50 material on is an intel based laptop and so cannot be used in conjunction with out AJA Kona LH.

The strange thing is that our BR HD50 deck is really quite happy being used to pass the signal through to our HD plasma when we use the print to video option…so why can’t it be used as a viewing device during playback??? I don’t really understand that.

If we were to upgrade our suites this wouldn’t be the case!

Any more comments on the BR50 deck passing the HDV stream intput out through the HD component out would be interesting to hear.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

Thanks for the response Andy.

I’ll give that a go when i can….a colleague is currently trying to capture everything the laborious way and doesn’t want interrupting but i know we have more projects to do this with pretty shortly.
I’ll be sure to post my findings when I’ve had chance to try this out.

Thanks again.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

will do Derick…it’s not a complicated document by any means but it may help you.

Mike

[Mike Simpson]

This is possible and is probably explained in the FCP user guide.

I’m not sure whether i did it the only way but i saved my excel sheet as tab delimited (i think) txt file and then imported it into FCP via batch list import.
If you pop me an email or give me an email address i can send you just a line of my recent log to get you going.

Mike