Misha Aranyshev
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The anxiety level of screwing up a $100k system is a bit higher than screwing up a $25k system 🙂
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Lets do it step by step.
– you capture your takes from a tape with device control so the clips in FCP carry the tape TC
– you drag, copy or somehow else put the clips on timeline and edit out bad takes etc. That’s how you create you Selects Sequence.
– you drag this Selects Sequence from the Browser to the Viewernow what?
I suppose you hit Command-N to create an empty sequence, lets call it First Cut, open it in the timeline and start cutting from Selects in the Viewer to the First Cut on the timeline. You can either cut your footage to First Cut as parts of Selects with F10, F9 or as clips with Command-F10, Command F9. You see the timecode of Selects in the current TC box in the Viewer and you see the timecode of the clips in the TC Overlay in the Viewer. Doesn’t appear to me as a problem. Do I miss something here?
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My copy of FCP HD shows me clips’ TC in the TC overlays of the Viewer window if it is a sequence loaded in the Viewer. It is normal to edit from the sequence of selects and there is a little feature in FCP just for that – hold down Command key while hitting F10 or F9 and the clips will get from the Viewer to timeline “unnested”.
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Way back when Cinema Tools was Film Logic it could generate accurate cut-lists from 24+1 telecin
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There is also Curious gFx and the Cow board for this app.
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When you import FCP creates the clip name from the file name. Then you capture FCP create file name from the logged clip name. So the names will be preserved but check how this routine affects the extensions – I suspect there could be some xxx.mov.mov.mov stupidness after a couple of passes.
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Unfortunately there is no such thing and unfortunately FCP is not scriptable. You can import all of your clips into a project, drop them onto the timeline, set the Ganging to Open and modify clip TC to match timeline TC copying from the Canvas Current TC field to the Modify TC dialog. Then edit to a pre-striped Digibeta tape at the in point matching the one on the timeline. If you know someone who can figure out FCP XML this can make a nice AppleScript utility.
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24@25 was given special attention in FCP 4.5 update thanks to the petition Will MacNeil started. There is Editing Film With Final Cut Pro
in a PAL Environment section in New Features under help menu.Are you sure you need 24 fps EDL? Film is the same number of frames per foot no matter what fps.
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Cinema Tools talks to FCP via XML, not Batch List now so hopefully Audio TC from telecin
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More Multicamera details. Is it a linear live-switching thing – make a pass and if you don’t like it start from the beginning? Will match frame from the timeline take me to the Merged clip or to the separate cameras? Does split screen go to the client monitor? What about keyboard shortcuts? What if my cameras recorded FREE RUN TC?
Multithreading. Was it improved? Does the app still stop when I switch windows? Is Capture Preview still an ugly useless pseudo-overlay?
Are the scopes live during playback? Does CoreWhatever help with the app responsiveness when Range Check and other overlays in the Viewer and Canvas are turned on?
Xsan integration is mentioned but the wording is very vague. Does it mean the improvements are under the hood and we will see the real multi-seat stuff in FCP 5.5?
12+1 field padding for 24 fps on 50 Hz (PAL) monitor? I don’t think so but maybe. They did another thing I wanted since FCP 1 – Feet+Frames Timeline.
Does FCP 5 read TC from BWF files?
Can we finally do something useful with Aux TC?
4 hrs. limit? Is it gone?
Keyboard shortcut to switch tabs?
Is FCP 5 Snappy