[Paul Escandon]

I go back and forth from FCP to After Effects CS3 all the time, usually using DVCPRO HD footage also. You’re going to have to be more specific about your problems though as I don’t understand what “bent out of shape or screwed up some other way” means. Give me some examples of what’s going wrong. Are the problems after rendering out of After Effects? If you’re keying out footage and saving it with an alpha channel then you’re obviously not rendering back to DVCPRO HD from After Effects – so what codec are you using? The more info you give, the better.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
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Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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[Paul Escandon]

Like others are saying – trust your properly calibrated broadcast monitor. If it’s calibrated and it looks good while you’re editing – that’s what you have to trust.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

When you import the media into DVDSP, right click it and choose encoder settings. A pop-up will allow you to tell DVDSP that it is anamorphic footage. Choose 19:9 instead of 4:3.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

If you’ve gone HDV up to this point, I would say keep color correcting and working in HDV. Just output a quicktime movie when you’re finished and you can burn an SD DVD from that – obviously it will have to be encoded for DVD and become SD at that point. I’d say keep working native.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

1. Final Cut will handle 24p from JVC cameras natively. I would do it this way.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

Yeah you can give me a call my phone number is on my website: http://www.oremusproductions.com – I’m swamped today however so I might have to return your call depending on when you call.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

The Quicktime player will do weird and unexpected things with gamma sometimes while viewing a movie on your computer’s screen – but those settings are not actually baked in and when you output to DVD things will be as you expected them to be (as long as you were monitoring via a color accurate display as you were editing). I’d try burning your master DVD first and seeing if you still have the problem that you’re noticing in the Quicktime player.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
oremusproductions.com | blog
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

There is no way that I know of to do this from within Final Cut using this method, unfortunately.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

I’m in FCP 5.1.4 right now and this method works.. so I’m not sure when they “added” this or if it’s always been possible.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD

[Paul Escandon]

When you say out of sync are you saying that the playback on your canvas is off from the playback on the output device? This happens sometimes, but you can tweak this in System Settings > Playback Control tab in the Frame Offset area. Here you can match up the sync of your out with your canvas.

If you’re feeling that the audio is out of sync with the video on your output device (deck or monitor hooked up via firewire) make absolutely sure that you are monitoring the audio from the firewire cable out (meaning from the deck you are hooked up into) and not straight from your system. You should always monitor audio via the same output you’re sending your video to because sometimes you might hear the audio playback being out of sync with the video if you’re monitoring both from seperate sources – but it’s not actually out of sync. So check on that.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Adjunct Professor of Media – JPCU
—
MacPro Quad-core XEON
8Gb ram, ATI Radeon X1900 XT, 2TB internal RAID
2 20″ Dell UltraSharps + Matrox MXO & 23″ ACD