[Neil Sadwelkar]

You must have done the MacOSX screen capture? That makes these funny 4.24 fps kind of movies.
I\’ve done this before and converted the capture movie to Apple ProRes at 25 fps before using in FCP. My use didn\’t involve audio sync in a any critical way though.

But for a critical audio sync screen capture I used Voila 3.0 and it worked better. Some say Screen Flow or Camtasia is good too.

About the 24fps, if you need 24fps, you need 24fps. I too make it 24fps when needed. In PAL countries we have no use for the odd 23.976 fps. Our film is 24, our TV is 25.
Cinema Tools easily conforms one to the other.

23.976, 29.97, 59.94. All these are numbers that I see in settings in FCP that I’ve very rarely had to use.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

People are doing strange things mixing formats these days.

Red, Canon 5D/7D, Film, HDCamSR, EX1/EX3.
Two or more of the above in the same project.
(Hey, its a free country right?)

How good is the conform in an EDL consisting of mixed media?

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I use FCP-CT in PAL land so things are different as our telecine is 25fps.

Anyway from your workflow what is common and I can comment on is.
1. You heve one lab roll per tape so that’s good. You haven’t ‘captured across’ lab rolls.
2. You can simply highlight the clips in FCP and do Tools > synchronize with Cinema Tools. Create a new database which contains all the clips.
3. You can even enter clips in CT manually but you need not make a new database for each tape. In fact you have to have just one database for all the lab rolls.
4. You can open each clip in CT and manually enter the keycode from the window burn. The time code should be present. If it isn’t, you can enter that manually too.

I’m not sure of the rest of the workflow for 23.976 > 29.97 as I haven’t done it before. Like I said, our telecine is 24@25.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I went over to the Arri site and read the description for the OB-1 recorder from S.two. It has a cartridge of 500 Gb which is good for 30 mins of Arri Raw. Which makes it about 1 hr per Tb of Arri Raw. Pretty much like 2k DPX scans.

So, shooting Arri Raw for an entire feature of about 20 hrs of Arri Raw rushes will need storage of about 20 Tb and/or LTO backups worth that much. s.two make a dock that reads the memory cartridges and backs them up to 2 LTOs so one can keep them at different locations for backup.

So, the cost of the recorder (which would translate into higher rentals) and cartridges and/or disk storage, is likely to discourage many productions from shooting Raw and preferring ProRes4444 instead.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

What’s the date when we can go out and buy a Resolve on a Mac. And what’s the qualified system and cards?

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If you’re in a PAL country 24 is also fine. But in NTSC land they need 23.98 otherwise they cannot get the 29.97 that their television needs.

In PAL, 23.98 or 23.976 could be troublesome.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Are you sure Clipster has this functionality? Is there any reference to it I. The user manual or in a data sheet?
One workaround might be to have a titles only timeline in FCP, set the sequence settings to TGA, \’millions of colours+\’ and make the frame size as large as you need. Then export it as a .tga sequence. This frame sequence can be laid atop your sequence in Clipster and you have subtitles.

The things to check is whether Clipster supports alpha in tga files, and whether it will composite the subtitles with the rest of the picture when the titles are on a higher layer.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

What is it that you wish to do in Clipster with an FCP XML?

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Neil Sadwelkar
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

MPEG Streamclip can rip a DVD into m2v and aiff or m2v and ac3. These files can be used in DVD Studio Pro to create a new DVD with different menus, additional sound and subtitles.

There is no loss of quality whatsoever in this process.

To add subtitles, you can do an additional conversion in MPEG Streamclip from the DVD to Quicktime and use that QT to create subtitles in FCP.

These subtitles can be exported as XML and then use something like Title Exchange Pro to convert XML to STL for import into DVDSP. This QT is only for placement and isn’t used in making the final DVD.

Alternately you can directly compose subtitles in DVDSP on the m2v and ac3.

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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India

[Neil Sadwelkar]

The free download of Flip4Mac converts only the first 20 or 30 sec to wmv. To be able to convert longer files you must buy the license.

And, there’s no other way (on a Mac) to do the conversion. On the PC, there’s Windows Media Encoder for Windows download able from Microsoft.

More here…
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5691ba02-e496-465a-bba9-b2f1182cdf24&displaylang=en

and

https://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Encoder4_Overview.aspx

Sorensen Squeeze or Adobe Media Encoder also do wmv as far as I remember, but check out though, I could be wrong.

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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India