[Neil Sadwelkar]

In your picture A_&, 035_NEW etc are lab rolls and 001, 003 and so on, are clip numbers? Or is it the other way around.

How has this folder structure been created? By a scanner? If so, its best to leave it undisturbed. If you were to rescan something, the scanner will automatically overwrite the old ones by identifying the folder structure it created. Else, you have dupe files.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

[Alister Robbie] “Anyway, thanks again to Neil for seriously bailing me out on this one. It is greatly appreciated mate.”

No problem, mate. We’ve been ‘friends’ in cricket, haven’t we now?

And since you have 40 tapes to go, you could follow events at Edgbaston today, maybe.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If your timeline/media is 24fps, you could consider exporting your final output at 24fps, then opening this Quicktime in CinemaTools and ‘conforming’ it to 25fps. It becomes PAL.

Mind that frame size in PAL is 720×576, so you need to do that scaling at export. In case your timeline/media is not ‘real 24fps’ but 23.98fps. (which in some parts of the world is the preferred method of expressing 24fps). You can take 23.98 fps and conform to 25fps in Cinema Tools too.

This conform method will speed up your video (and audio) by 4%, but in the PAL world it is the preferred method of converting 24fps to 25fps.

Just so you know, HDCamSR, D-5, DVCProHD, NLEs like smoke, flame, Quantel eQ, iQ, and many other systems can output 24fps video as PAL only by this 4% speed-up method. Only Avid and FCP systems can actually output 24fps as 25fps by the ‘frame’repeat’ or ’24+1′ method. Which preserves duration at the cost of a somewhat noticeable once-per-sec judder.

Using Compressor and with careful application of settings it is possible to make 24fps into 25fps without changing duration. Frame interpolation is done and looks quite clean, but it take a while to encode.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Joe,

I think I understand exactly what you’re saying. About 4 years ago I created such a setup sitting in a telecine. Our smoke and flame suites were supposed to be able to control VVTR as a VTR and capture from it to an EDL.

Our workflow was…
1. Crash record to VVTR with TC coming in via RS-422 from the telecine.
2. Edit these captured Quicktimes in offline edit suites Avid or FCP. (Avid would need transcode)
3. After edit, and create an EDL.
4. Load EDL in smoke and capture from VVTR now acting like a VTR.
5. If we had selects, we would record entire rolls with new grades.
6. Then load up these ‘re-telecine’ rolls like new tapes.
7. smoke would then capture these just like they were coming out of a real VTR.

This worked up to a point, till we figured other workflows, and finally went back to tape. We had to give out tapes to clients so this VVTR led to double usage of VTRs.

In your case, you are doing selects like real selects with same TC but not same durations and file names. FCP cannot reconnect these, I know.

You need a different workflow. And you need different reconnect behaviour from FCP. Let me think about it.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Adding it to the masterclip after its in the timeline won’t help.

If these ‘interlace requiring’ have some common name, extension or character that’s not in the other clips, you could search the timeline for that name, ext or char. FCP highlights each instance of it.

In the first ‘found clip’ place the filter. Then do cmd-c so fCP copies the clip. Then Cmd-G so FCP finds the next instance and highlights it. Do a paste attributes opt-v and select filters. Then cmd-g again. And opt-v again.

Hope this helps.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

That’s a good idea. But after the modification how do you get it all back from Excel into FCP?

Here’s what I did.

I took the batch list (Alister e-mailed it to me). Imported that into Neooffice (I’m MS-free). It came nicely as a table. I then wrote a formula to change the Media End timecode to 3 sec earlier. I also had to write a formula to change the duration to 3 sec less.

I then exported that out as a text tab-delimited file. Imported that into FCP to check if all clips were adjusted correctly. I then sent that back to Alister.

Its late night in his part of the world so he’ll be able to check only some hours from now. If it works, I’ll figure a way to do it automatically. Maybe an Applescript or something.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

We’ve used VVTR a few years ago as a Telecine DDR. To crash record from FCP and then as a ‘VTR’ for our FCP and smoke systems. We never actually got it to be frame accurate. Those were early (FCP4-5) days. And the Blackmagic cards we used then, had buggy genlock issues. We eventually got better results with later versions and a MOTU MTP-AV timecode unit.

But eventually we stopped using this as other workflows prevailed.

You get on the phone with Mark Gilbert at Gallery. He is extremely helpful and chances are you’ll find a solution.

There’s a new Cineform DDR app that’s pricier than VVTR but you may find that works better.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

Forgot to mention my address
neil
at
sadwelkar
dot
com

All in one line, replace the ‘at’ and ‘dot’

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

If you send me batch list I could send you a formula for deducting advancing 03.00 from the in point. Meaning making the Media Start occur later so you have preroll.

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

[Neil Sadwelkar]

What about if you switch the track visibility. Does that lose render files?

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