[Nick Price]

Hi Travis,
or cut in 23.98 and then get a blackmagic up/own cross converter for around £300. Hardware is always preferable to software.

https://www.creativevideo.co.uk/index.php?t=product/blackmagic_up_down_cross.

For what it will cost you in wages a day, you can get this great little gizmo that will convert your playout. Could do it while playing out to tape, or possible just ingest it back into the edit?

nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Paul,
i shouldn’t have gone away. But it only appears when you create a new timeline (apple+n) and then try to cut a clip into it. It wont do it when you have a timeline that already has material on it

thanks
nick

[Nick Price]

40hours of ProRes Proxy footage will fit on a 1tb firewire drive with 300gb to spare. You can pick one up for £100 /$150. Definitely worth it. If you are shooting on card media you must invest in hard drives – thats like having a camcorder and saying you cant afford the tapes.

best wishes
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Alex,
if that is what they’re really asking (and i’m not sure it is), then the only sensible way is to make a new timeline without text and put that on a new tape, same timecode etc..

cheers
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi
I have done a similar thing for calculating archive used in programmes. It works with audio and video. Basically export and edl cmx3600. Video only. Then goto a website called pump audio
https://cuesheet.pumpaudio.com/

Create a free account and then you can upload the edl and it will convert it into an excel spreadsheet.

You should be able to import your raw dslr clips onto the timeline. As long as you don’t try to edit them, just export and edl of then then you can compare the two excel spreadsheets.

Best
Nick

[Nick Price]

Thanks Dave, I did’t know that about the US. Strange to think that 4:3 is still standard for SD. Do people not buy widescreen tvs over there? Most content in the UK, although shot in HD, is still transmitted as SD. We only have a few HD only channels. Bur everything has been 16×9 for pretty much 10 years.

Best
Nick

[Nick Price]

Hi Sara,
I agree with Neil. EVeryone seems to be making sound difficult….Its really simple. If you have a blackmagic or AJA card in your mac, you can just “Edit to Tape” from the HD timeline. Its not “Print to Video” because that wont control your deck. You connect your blackmagic/Aja card using the SDI lead for the video/audio signal and the RS422 to control the digibeta.

You didn’t request that you wanted 4:3, so SD digibeta 16×9 will be the same aspect ratio as your HD sequence and nothing should be squashed.

You can export the sequence to compressor first, but your blackmagic/AJA card will do a better job of down converting than compressor will.

thanks
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi
Compressor can be a troublesome programme. Its not your mac. It should never be taking this long for a 5min film.

I would cancel your queue in batch monitor. If this doesnt work, (which if there is a problem with compressor it sometimes doesnt), then in compressor menu select reset and cancel background processing.

Are you using qmaster to using all of your machines cores? If not then you should as it will speed up your batch. There are loads of tutorials explaining how to do this. its very easy. If you are using it already, then it can be temperamental, so again i would cancel it. And in the qmaster preference sin system preferences i would “stop sharing” and then restart sharing.

Are you exporting as a quicktime and then putting into compressor? I would recommend this rather than doing it from the timeline. It frees up FCP so you can carry on editing, or if nothing else it enables you to close FCP which will help speed up compressor.

Compressor sometimes copies the film to your system drive, and if you ware running out of space then it will slow to a crawl.

You can also try various compressor fixing software, which basically cleans it out and enables you to start again. This one is recommended.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressorrepair/

cheers
nick

[Nick Price]

Hi
I had this problem and it was fixed by changing timeline render settings (apple+zero) to 8-bit rather than 10bit. If you change the still size in photoshop you will need to redo all your moves/resize in FCP.
thanks
nick

[Nick Price]

i have had simmilar problems with long form shows, with lots of stills and heavy grading. This recently worked for me, no sure why. Try changing the video processing settings on the timeline to 8bit YUV rather than 10. And also try rendering in sections. That way you can isolate the problem clips

thanks
nick