[Paul Dickin]

[Shane Ross] “Standard Definition is 4:3…or 16:9 letterboxed. No show airs 16:9 SD.”
Hi
In the PAL world – including the UK and Australia – 16:9 FHA (full height anamorphic) has been the normal broadcast format since the late 1990s.
Letterboxing has more or less died the death.

Is the DVX-100b a FHA camera – I’ve always seen the DVX-100 used with an add-on anamorphic lens on the front.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
As its been explained to me, Adobe’s modus operandi is to integrate the SAME underlying ‘video/graphics engine’ – with a unified code-case, across all its programs, in all the apps that make up its software suites.

So there’s no ’round-trip’ workflow ever – all the different applications are just different-functionality user interfaces, used to manipulate the same media assets, with the same underlying common unified-code engine.

So all the work is done in one place. Nothing is ‘passed’ anywhere.
How cool is that as a future-proof strategy!

Once they’ve got it all to work properly – Apple and Adobe share the mammoth task of rewriting all the old legacy Carbon code into future-proof Cocoa (+ 64-bit).

Apple haven’t just got FCS to do. they’ve got QuickTime to update as well – though that has to be well underway to get the iPhone working 😉

90% of the things people are asking for can’t happen until FCS’s code-base is made ready to allow it to happen.
The crunch question is whether Apple will take on the challenge that Adobe is setting with its Suite integration…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
FCP can be VERY fussy about internet download movie files that aren’t exactly the correct frame rate.

So when using a program like Compressor, or MPEG-Streamclip or QT Player Pro to transcode web downloads to a proper editing codec NEVER set the frame rate for the conversion to ‘Current’.

Always enter the appropriate numerical value – 29.97 for NTSC DV

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
To further not clarify things…
I did this in the TRV-900 DV era, using iMovie, which didn’t used to be so fussy about the incoming FW signal.
With an NTSC tape in a PAL TRV-900E camcorder, I first connected an NTSC mode Canopus ADVC box to the computer, and got iMovie up and ready for NTSC capture, then hot-switched the FW cable to the camcorder in Play mode. Whereupon iMovie happily captured the tape.

Of course iMovie these days would use AIC for HDV ingest, and I don’t know if it remains as standards-unfussy as it used to be…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Hmm. I find Media Manager pretty much does what it says on the tin.
Its the whole FCP application that is full of media management issues – change a timeline clip’s speed mode – add a variable or constant ramp a couple of times- then go back to 100% and you are likely to be looking at a totally different section of the clip in the Viewer…..

Or try linking an identical recaptured clip with identical timecode – FCP hasn’t a clue.

Don’t get me started on Freeze Frame anomalies…

[Paul Dickin]

[Andy Mees] “Question is why hasn’t it happened yet? Is this where I get to say “Apple are you listening?”
Hi
Cut them some slack… 😉
Look at the difference of Log & Capture – with its integration of metadata directly into the transferred QuickTimes – and the old 1997-revised2002 Log & Capture (and the rest of FCP).

Log & Transfer is Cocoa code, I’m told.
The ton of old stuff is Carbon, am I’m sure Apple has been rewriting it as fast as their code wizards can – and all the new stuff in the iPhone’s QuickTime X is probably now mapped out, for inclusion in FCP.
Then there’s Snow Leopard’s new features, and 64-bit to add to the equation…

Of course the $64,000 question is whether this mountain of new code will even be far enough along the line for Apple to preview it at NAB 2009….

Personally I think its probably best done well, and all the new in-depth features integrated, rather than rushed.
In my opinion.

All this is supposition, but there are enough people around here who just might be Apple alpha testers, and whose demeanour seems far from worried and fearful of the future – NDA or not! 🙂

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
My lesser-spec DSR decks do that IF I’ve forgotten to change the timecode setting back to Internal/Regen after doing the stripe.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Try holding the (left) mouse button down during boot-up.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
QuickTime movies can have all sorts of embeded metadata – time-based links to html pages and the like.
The movie and the html pages can run concurrently in a single window.

The application best suited for this is LiveStage Pro:
https://www.totallyhip.com/livestage.html

[Paul Dickin]

[Mark Palmos] “…it told me the codec of the timeline was incompatible”
Hi
That’s because FCP isn’t ‘seeing’ what you think you are offering up for the ETT – most likely its seeing a slug or blank screen in the viewer window.

Don’t mess with timelines or buttons with ETT – it can work that way, but everything has to be properly set-up, and anything slightly wrong means failure.

What works every time is setting the sequence up and rendered, then dragging the sequence icon from the browser to the Assemble pop-up overlay in the ETT window.