[Nick Meyers]

i agree.
i like the tool,
but i can see it will cause some to tie themselves in knots.

i’m surprised this hasn’t been brought up with the “edit anything in any timeline” feature though.
i can see that being a real problem for those starting out.
Q: i cut my PAL footage and now i cant play out to my PAL camera
A: is your sequence perhaps NTSC?
Q: gee, how do i know?

i see so many people blithely cutting their anamorphic footage in to 4/3 timeliness.
FCP “fixes” the problem for them so they have no idea.
so yes, cutting in the wrong timeline is gonna get a whole lot worse.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“Dark green full RT here….”

don’t trust that “Full” render.
FCP thinks it;s better than it is with that sometimes (i might even say FCP is a bit “full” of itself!.. if i didn’t have better taste!)

actually render some of it, and see if there is an improvement.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

heck if it’s a PSD, open it up in Photoshop and change the colour there.
easier than FCP with better results.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

the point was that this gives you the ability to do “capture now”s and then quickly re-name them.

i cant see 6 editors crawling all over the newly captured files until the assistant has dealt with them.
of course anything can happen.

on the whole it seems like a good feature.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

a couple of people have suggested using Media Manager to recomperess the footage.
but are you sure that would be best?

i had the idea that Compressor might do a better job, what with all it’s fine-tuning controls.

but i guess if it’s just a transcode, with no scaling or frame-rate changes involved, MM should be OK?

guess we’ll wait and see..

nick

[Nick Meyers]

yep, it;s there, allright.
been using it for years, too

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“in to out” in Mastering settings is not what you want.

go to the main, “video” page,
at the top, change “mastering” to “Editing”
set in and out points in the edit to tape window,
and an in point in your source sequence.

load sequence into viewer,
then drag to “insert” in ETT window.

should work.

cheers,
nick
(Sydney, Aust)

[Nick Meyers]

if the clips still have a valid Master / Affiliate relationship,
then colouring the timeline clips will ads the same colour to the browser clips.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

“and we also have to manually set the ‘high quality’ flag on the files in QT pro – not much fun for 100+.”

you probably don’t need this, now, but there is a small app that will batch modify your QT files to high qual.
it’s name: Hi Qual!
https://www.synthetic-ap.com/products/hiq/index.html

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i dont get it.

why have you got that huge file stage in the middle?

nick