[Neil Ryan]

Michael,
Shotlister is an Aussie product, isn’t it? Made by Digiteyes, I believe.
Possibly not available universally.
When I used it, it was a great utility and I’m not surprised a use for it still exists.

Maybe you could process Jerry’s file for him, and he could …

[Neil Ryan]

[Michael G] “Old fashioned EDL management software like Shotlister would enable you to log the new digi beta tape, creating an EDL of the new tape.”

We’ve come a long way since then … some of it in reverse …

[Neil Ryan]

[JeremyG] “and everything is irie.”

is that a good thing or a bad thing…?

[Neil Ryan]

[Rich Rubasch] “Or do I just make a clone via a standards converter (I think our dub house uses a Laird) at the dub house?”

[rafalaos] “Although the process, if you are very exigent with your set-ups, can be killing slow.”

So one important equation for you, Rafael, is: how much is your time worth? Is it worth spending, what … a day and a night (including computer time) doing it all yourself? or should you just output your usual standard (NTSC?) and get a conversion done by someone else (realtime) and work with that.
You need to weigh up the differences between the two approaches in terms of cost, time and quality.

Ask for advice, but the decision is one for you to make. And remember, this time you might do it one way, but the next time, the equation is different (maybe more time/less money or whatever) and you do it a different way.

Hope me offering some realworld experience is a help …

cheers.
Neil.

[Neil Ryan]

Have you considered monitoring with a pair of Apple iPod earphones?
For anyone under the age of about 30, this is probably how they’ll be listening to our material …

Sorry, couldn’t help myself. . .

[Neil Ryan]

Thanks.
(I’m cutting some NTSC stuff and I happily called up FCP’s NTSC sequence preset and noticed it was Lower field for 10- and 8bit; the opposite of PAL sequences.
Just wanted to be sure the BlackMagic presets were correct.
something to do with my ‘Never Assume’ policy ..)

[Neil Ryan]

were the DAT tapes timecoded?
And if so, was it the same code as the camera tapes?

[Neil Ryan]

[Bret Williams] “Don’t use gausian blur. There is no reason to blur horizontally”

It is important to have no single pixel lines or spots which may result in flicker.
If you are going to rotate and zoom the images in FCP, you will need to blur both horizontally and vertically.
I believe guassian blur (about0.3 or so, depending on your original image size) is appropriate.

If you are not rotating them in FCP, then it is reasonable to blur vertically only.

Personally, too, a little soft is better than a little sharp when putting images into video.

[Neil Ryan]

… “Found it under geometry>aspect ratio correction”

If you meant “Pixel aspect” you’re right. Otherwise …

[Neil Ryan]

Video resolution is 72 dpi.
Whatever resoltion you scan at, the files you import into FCP need to be 24 bit RGB 72 dpi file.
By all means, work in a higher resolution while you manipulate the images, but finish off by converting them to the above standard.
Make them pict or tiff. Do Not Use JPEGs.

It is easy to make them ‘over sharp’. Sometimes you need to add a Guassian Blur of about 0.3 to reduce flicker or crawl. And if you do this, do it to the still image file before import, not as a FCP filter.

And you really need to view your edit on a Video monitor, not a computer screen.