[Neil Sadwelkar]

If your FCP timeline has the corrected files out of Color, then they must have been rendered to some codec like Apple ProRes, or as Uncompressed whatever was set in Color. So you now have an FCP timeline that’s either ProRes or Uncompressed.

You could export that final FCP timeline as a Quicktime self-contained. Then import that exported Quicktime into a new project in Color, and set the Project properties to DPX or Cineon. Then when you render this timeline in Color by adding it to the render queue, your destination folder will have a DPX sequence of your whole edit. No question of MFX going wonky as you’re dealing with one flattened Quicktime as a source.

In effect Color is the Quicktime to DPX converter. No need for GlueTools. It is a great tool to have though. Has many other uses too.

Another cheap and cheerful free way to convert QT to DPX is with Blackmagic’s Framelink, or AJA’s QTtoDPX converter.

This DPX or Cineon Sequence can be imported into DS.

Alternately, if your FCP system has a Blackmagic or AJA HD card, you can layoff to tape out of FCP. Why DS Nitris. Chances are it will even look better than going through these hoops converting just so DS can ingest it.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

David is right about replacing from preceeding/succeding frames. In fact, to make this easy, Mattias has written very useful and free plug-in called Too Much Too Soon. Here…

https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/

I use them all the time and have made a small donation to him for it.

If the dirt and hair is heavy, the most cost-effective solution is Furnace from Foundry. Get a demo and check it out.
https://www.thefoundry.co.uk

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

I once did DVD authoring of hundreds of hours of VHS footage from the eighties of musical concerts. I first transferred all the tapes to DV. Most small DV camcorders and decks have a built in ‘TBC sort of’ which irons out many of VHS’s time base irregularities.

Then if your stuff is grainy or noisy, use Video Purifier. It does a good job of cleaning video noise.

And finally, crop out a few lines top and bottom where VHS have many defects like skew and random picture breakup, which can be annoying.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

The guy who walks past the TV can’t be in front of the TV for more than a few frames. That should be reasonably easy to mask using FCP’s 8-point garbage matte or even in Motion.

What you need is to place the TV screen footage on a new layer V2 to comp it into the TV. Then place the V1 layer on top of that on V3. Trim the clip in V3 to only include frames that the guy is walking past the TV. Then with the garbage matte, make a mask around that part of his body that covers the TV. This is also called a ‘hold-out matte’.

If you need more than 8 points, send the clip to Motion where you have a bezier matte.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Can anyone confirm that the 7.3.1 drivers work fine with a Multibridge Extreme and/or a Decklink HD Extreme (old w HDMI) on FCS2 under MacOSX 10.5.7 or 10.5.8.

Thanks

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Most likely the CG artist began the render and it stopped midway. He quit the app and the file was not ‘closed’. Try opening the movie in QT Player and if it opens fine, export it as an image sequence. If it beachballs halfway, you’ll have the frames till the crash. Maybe they are all the frames you need.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

You will not be able to mix 3-perf and 4-perf in one database. You can, however use them in one project and one timeline.

Why do you need to make cut lists? You surely cannot cut the negative and hope to splice 3-perf and 4-perf together? In fact, how do you propose to use a 3-perf cut list? Are there 3-perf neg cutters in your area?

My advice is to stay with EDLs. All DI systems work only with EDLs. They are key code agnostic. In fact in our DI facility we don’t take anyhing except EDLs. And in some recent movies I’ve worked on, we didn’t even make databases.

Anyway, if you absolutely have to have cutlists, then you need to keep the 3perf and 4perf shots on separate video layers. Then after the edit is finished, you can dupe the edit and make two timelines one for V1 only and one for V2 only. Say V1 was 4perf and V2 was 3perf, you can now generate two cutlists one for 4perf and one for 3perf.

In the 4perf cut list the 3perf clips will be blank and in the 3perf cut list the 4perf clips will be blank. So you can have a ‘sort of A/B roll’ negative.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

There is probably some way one could achieve this with XMLs or EDLs. But you know what. Even if this could be automated, you will still need to make reference video and compare that the re-conform worked.

My suggestion is to manually replace the cuts with the new Quicktime 2k movies. It would be faster if you have less than 50 cuts to replace.

Since the names and timecodea are the same, it won’t take as long as you’d imagine.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Sydney Australia. Hmmm

I’m in Mumbai, India a bit closer to you than LA, if my geography is right. Its about an 8 hour flight, Maxx Digital can ship the parts direct to you and I could fly down and set it up. I could stay on till its working which I suspect would me no more than a few days.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

You could also place them in an FCP timeline, join them together and export as Quicktime but not self contained. You can also join QT movies to one another in Quicktime Player itself.

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