[Patrick Collins]

I tried going from my previous sequence, and selecting all the clips and copying them, and pasting them into my new sequence. Since FCP incorrectly had my sequence at 720×480, when I go to my new 1280×720 sequence, all the clips that I paste in from the “bad” sequence are small and centered in the viewer– I am assuming because they are at 720×480. I could not see a way to tell FCP: “DON’T DO THAT!!!!”… Is there a way?

All of this is sooo annoying!!!

[Patrick Collins]

Ok, so now that I have to rebuild my sequence for the 10th time (not really but feels like it), is there an easy way to get the start position of a clip and be able to move my clips in the new sequence to those start positions? It will be extremely tedious to have to line everything up with the audio all over again, and I am hoping I do not have to do that.

[Patrick Collins]

Well– I didn’t end up doing the steps you last suggested because I was already like 75% through all the footage… It all looks good at 30fps, but what I am confused about is how to output my HD footage to compressor as HD… The individual .mov files that my FCP project is using are at 1920×1080.. The sequence settings in FCP is also set to prores 44 30fps1920x1080…

Yet when I send to compressor for the final output, on the video settings tab, if I choose “100% of source”, it says it is 720×480.. Why is that not 1920×1080? or 1280×720 as I would expect for HD?

[Patrick Collins]

I say, because when I lined up my new converted file with the old one, they video is totally out of sync with the audio.

Reconverting it to 30fps makes it work…

I have just been using quicktime, export to .mov, with the prores setting.

[Patrick Collins]

yeah this is just ridiculous.. Apparently I need to convert all my 23.98 to 30fps in order to make this work. So I have to convert everything all over again….

[Patrick Collins]

Ugh.. I just converted everything to pro res and once again it did the frame rates wrong!!! WTF?! the original 29.97 got changed to 30fps despite the fact that the compressor settings say:

Apple ProRes 422
Quality: medium
Frame rate: 29.97
Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
Dimensions 1920×1080
scale: letterbox

And then my other camera’s 23.98 footage back 29.96!!! What the hell?? why is quicktime screwing everything up? This is wasting so much of my time!!!

What am I doing wrong?

[Patrick Collins]

Yes, I have the clips lined up properly, I just need to copy all the opacity “automation” data I added to the track.. How exactly do I do this?

[Patrick Collins]

Thanks.. Ok I am doing this.. In the mean time, is there a way to copy “pen tool” points from one video track to another? I already spent a ton of time transitioning between the two angles, and it would be great if I can just copy all that automation data into the prores track…. ?

[Patrick Collins]

Yeah.. I tried changing all the various settings on FCP and could not get the problem to go away. I took the deck back and got a refund.. The guy at the rental place said the same thing– I probably need to get a Canon camcorder to play back the tapes and capture it with that.

So I am off to ebay to find one…

[Patrick Collins]

I am capturing to a 3TB internal Western Digital drive (OS Extended Journaled)…

Capturing via firewire, yes…