[Nick Meyers]

i don’t mean plug-in for FCP, but a stand-alone app that would generate ProRes files with the correct metadata.

Sony do make software like this for their other formats.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

sorry, i don’t know that camera

how did you get the footage into FCP?
Sony may have software to deal with converting it properly, so it retains it’s actually reel# and timecode

you could read the thread bellow this one.
it started as a question about match framing, but morphed into a discussion on duplicate frames and reel#s

nick

[Nick Meyers]

helo Raju

Yes, dupe detection need unique reel #s and / or timecode on the clips

if the timecodes all start at 00.00.00.00, then every reel# should be unique
or, you can have one reel#, if the timecodes are all different

if two completely different chips have the same reel# and TC, then they will be flagged as duplicates.

[raju bhai] ” is there an easy way to give your source clip in the browser a reel name?”

yes, in the browser, find the reel column, and enter a name.
pretty easy ☺

once one had a reel name, you can elect al the clips, right click on the new reel name,
select it from the small menu that pops up, and all the other clips will adopt that name as well.
so IF the clips have unique TC, that will work for you.

[raju bhai] “I have about 50 clips in my browser, and I don’t want to ascribe a reel to each and every one”

it wouldn’t take too long, but i understand.
here’s what i do in these situations:

put all the clips into a new timeline
double click on the first one to open it into the viewer
Command 9 to open item properties
Command C to copy the name
escape to close item properties
Modify Menu > Timecode to open the Modify Timecode window, (actually i;ve given this a shortcut using the keyboard layout window)
in this window the timecode field is selected, but TAB will jump to the reel field
Command V to paste the clip name as the reel name
Enter or return
then DOWN AROW to jump to the next clip (Still in the viewer)

as this is ALL keyboard commands, i have this programmed into a macro in Quickeys, or Keyboard Maestro,
so 50 clips would take a couple of minutes.

[raju bhai] “i only need to apply a reel name for those 1 o 2 clips in my browser.”

OK, good idea!

find the clip in the timeline, double click it into the viewer, and give it a reel#
if there are no fields to write in, just click the little check box net to Source TC.

cheers,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

with the clip selected, and the canvas the active window,
hold OPTION, and use the up/down, left/right buttons.

these buttons have different function if the timeline is the active window, so be careful about that

[raju bhai] “i’ve been click dragging with the mouse and it’s hard to be precise that way”
actually if you ZOOM IN on the canvas, you can be VERY precise.
you can get finer detail than with the arrows, but the arrows are very easy to use.

[raju bhai] ” if i just want to shift the wireframe horizontally, i can press shift while dragging so as not to disrupt the vertical alignment?”

is this a question?
the answer is YES

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i’ll answer your question,
and then i’ll tell you how to do which you want.
two different things!

[raju bhai] ” when i reverse match frame from the source clip in the browser, while the playhead jumps to the corresponding frame on the timeline, i don’t know how to make it locate all the other instances of the same frame on the timeline”

generally match frame looks forward.
so:
F to match into the viewer,
then Q to jump to the canvas,
HOME to jump to the head of the timeline,
Q to jump back to the viewer
F to find the first instance of the clip

(if you know you’ve matched the first instance into the viewer, you don’t have to do this little dance)

then use the left arrow to move forward 1 frame, or the down arrow to move to he next edit,
Q back to the viewer
and F again
should take you to the NEXT instance of the clip

now sometimes this doesn’t work , and match frame really does only jump to one specific instance of a clip.
but never mind…

[raju bhai] ” i’m trying to find where i may be using the same frame more than once on the timeline”

at the bottom left of your timeline are a group of tiny buttons:
loudspeaker, green & blue lines, keyframe mountains, bar graph, and tiny right-pointing arrow. (those are all descriptive names, and don’t really rate yo heir function)

the tiny arrow is the one you need now,
click on it to see a menu, and choose “Show Duplicate Frames”
when this is enabled, any duplicate frames have a coloured line along the bottom of the clip.
you can right click on the coloured line, and it’ll tell you where the other instances are, and you can jump to them.

hope thats clear,
nick

[Nick Meyers]

wow, good list.
i actually really appreciate the detail they go into.

20 frames minimum, seems pretty short to me.
i’ve been working off some BBC specs where they had a 1 & 1/2 second minimum. (or so i understood it anyway)
also a rather broad rule of 3 words per second.

so my subs have slowed down a bit on the last couple of films.
faster subs were ok, but did induce a mild panic, which seemed to work of those films !

nick

[Nick Meyers]

based on?

[Nick Meyers]

with compressor, you’d want to set the audio to “pass-through”
as it’s really just the picture you want to change.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

[Daniel Weese] “do i really need a whole terabyte of free space just to edit this simple sequence? Or is there another problem”

the out of memory warning doesn’t refer to hard disk space,
it refers to RAM.

FCP7 can’t access a whole lot of RAM, (4 supposedly) so any really large graphics can bring it to it’s knees.
The thing is it’s not entirely consistent:
I had a really large picture file in my last project, and it struggled, but allowed me to render the parts where i’d used it.
So i though OK, I’m clear.
Then when i went to EXPORT the 40minute timeline, even though i’d rendered it, i got the out of memory warning about half way though ( where the shots were)
However, i was able to export just those sections, and re-import them,

then a couple of weeks later, i COULD export those rendered sections.
go figure.

there are things you can do in FCP to free up RAM.
closing all open sequence, and re-oping the one you need is the main one.
also make sure the video scopes aren’t open.

closing the app and re-srating would help to, of course, but make sure you only have the one sequence open.
actually, you can export from the browser, too, so you don’t need to have ANY sequences open.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

[andy patterson] “Thanks. The option is probably there I just don’t see it.”

if you’re in the forum, click on the specific post you want to edit,
if you are within the thread, go to REPLY to the post you want to edit.
if you are logged in, and the author, then at the lower left you’ll see “Edit” in blue

here’s a screen grab: