[Peter Mcauley]

While your at it I’d check the accuracy of your timecode going out to tape. Check the playback offset in the device control.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

And while there at it, (I mean the total FCP rewrite) how about timecode displays and audio meters that don’t disable in capture or edit to tape modes, one of my all time fave dislikes.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

I’m also running QT 7.0.2 with FCP5.0.2 and OS 10.4.2 with no issues at all

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

I found that mounting your speakers on the wall or on seperate stands and off the hollow body of your editing console will greatly improve the sound. My Tannoys are abut one foot higher than my ears and slightly pointing down. There was a huge increase in fidelity when I did this.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

You may find this article interesting. It has soom really good information on the differences in codecs and what to expect.

https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_chroma_sample.html

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.4.2
FCP 5.02
QT 7.02
Kona 2 v1.2 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

If your on FCP 5, it now contains a pitch audio plugin. Simpley apply a speed change tp the audio clip then add the pitch plugin. The plugin takes a bit of time to figure it out but it does work.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Did I miss something? Graeme were you given an award or something? Well congrats for what ever it was. Keep up the great work, your products are outstanding especially your standards converters.

Cheers

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

I recently completed a Lexus cinema ad here in Canada that originated on digibeta pal at 25 fps. What we did was bring it in at 25 fps but put itinto a 24 fps timeline. This makes the spot phiysically longer. Normally a 60 second spot at 24 fps is 1440 frames. At 25fps it is 1500 frames. So we ended up with 60 extra frames which now makes our spot 62.5 seconds. We chose this method because we wanted to avoid the frame blending artifacts associated with speed changes. We now had a one to one video to film rate for the film record. We then took our audio mix and slowed it down (96.25%) and harmonized the pitch back up so that it didn’t sound slow. The resulting composite film print looked and sounded great after the uprez and film record. I’ve done it the other way of using a speed change and on the big screen the frame blending was not great. A couple of words of caution though. Make sure that the cinema buy will allow a longer play. Most chains are fine with submitting a slightly longer spot but your client should check with the media buy to make sure it’s ok. Secondly I put a two beep at the head and one at the tail to check the accuracy of the synch after it was harmonized. We also were mixing to 29.97 video so we took our1500 frames and added puldown to it before we layed it out to tape for the mix.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

Get one of these puppies. I use this with my laptop and a canopus on location all the time. Very accurate.

https://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA28x/

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[Peter Mcauley]

why does it need to be 24fps in order to do sub titles?

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display