[Paul Dougherty]

Thanks Craig, Yes re. “tape” I was transposing the same need/question to HDV tapes that arrived which I already know can shoot sd. And yes I’ve enjoyed the added flexibility of having all that picture real estate but with very low-margin budgets I’m having to absorb the cost of (in the case of HDV) of sending out the tapes to be captured to a drive.

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

Thanks Daniel

“for me it’s grey to the extent that h.264 = mpeg-4 yes?”

>No. You can H.264 in an MPEG-2 TS or as an f4v etc. MPEG-4 can also be simple profile, which is not H.264

I don’t doubt it, but it’s s a little over my head. I’m trying to square that statement with wiki entries like “H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a standard for video compression.” Where might an editor non-compressionist read up on this duality?

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

Yes re-editing is the wild card. I was trying to teach a producer how to treat existing dvd assets as cards in a deck that can be reshuffled and organized into new dvds.

[Paul Dougherty]

Thanks Craig. I take your point about Qt but I’m passing along the options from Toast verbatim – so yes they are mixing apples and oranges.

So please excuse if this is a dumb question but when I researched extracting elementary streams with Cinematize, I had though these were native dvd files. This seemed to be confirmed when I would burned newly authored dvds (in Toast) from them… which took no time to speak of which reinforced the idea that they were not being re-encoded.

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

>Did you set a datarate, or is one set for you by any chance?

A datarate was already set, but then I set it much higher than the default as a test and nothing helped budge the “quality bar” budge off “Medium”

[Paul Dougherty]

Since I didn’t want to go higher than OS 10.4.11, I proceeded cautiously on the FCP upgrade. Did my Quicktime upgd first to the current version 7.6 then via Software Update did the Pro Apps upgrade which was confusing since it didn’t even list FCP. But in the end FCP got upgraded (that way) and I seem to be ok running FCP 6.0.6 as desired. Thanks for the help.

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

this is great news Michael. Anyone know where I might find Quicktime 7.5 for Mac (not 7.5.5)

Thanks,

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

Thanks John, I created a new Seq preset by copying a DV 48k preset and modifying the copy to 44 (44.1)

Then edited the iPhone clip to a Seq newly created after doing the above setting. Just as I preformed the edit FCP asked if I want to match the Seq setting to the source clip – answer yes.

In the timeline is shows a red line for render, I play the seq. No longer get the beep but don’t hear audio even though I see the audio track there (n the TL) Again in the browser all seems to match 44.1 and 32-bit Floating Point. Don’t understand what the hitch is.

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

Hi, As I said in the post I did this… “Looking at the Browser both src & seq say Audio format 32-bit Floating Point and I converted the Seq setting to 44.1” however I’m assuming both are 16bit but “Item properties” make no mention of bit depth.

On your other point if it was one render no biggie but if I needed to do real audio editing it would be a render for every edit & trim, a tedious waste of time if it can be avoided

Thanks,

Paul

[Paul Dougherty]

This is wild – I was about to post the same problem and I understand why the moderators have posted the stock reply *but* there is an anomaly here. I’ve been an Avid editor for 20 years and know these transition fundamentals inside out. I did one more test before I posted the similar gripe (below) and solved it. Dissolves seem to default to center so if want to start on the first frame of incoming you get the typical centered one frame dissolve. But I don’t want a centered dissolve, I want to start at the cut point and I can right click on that transition all day long and tell it that but it just beeps. The solution I just discovered and the only work-around I know is to copy a diss that starts on the cut and paste that on the transition giving me these problems, and presto 1 sec dissolve. Can anyone shed light on this?

Paul

(pre solution dilemma) missing handle on dissolves – false!

I have this chronic problem with FCP(6) where an outgoing scene has lots of pad and I want to dissolve from there to the very beginning of an incoming scene with a dissolve that starts at the transition point. For arguments sake let’s say I have a dissolve favorite that is configured to *start* at transition point but when I drag this diss favorite I get a one frame dissolve! Ctrl click on it to make it longer and all I get is a beep?! – I’m stuck with a 1 frame dissolve unless I lop off some head on incoming which I don’t want to do. It’s maddening because I have plenty of handle and I want the dissolve to start at the cut point. This happens all the time, what am I doing wrong?