Phil Balsdon
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Open your Audio/Video Settings – Sequence Presets. Choose another HDV-720p (24?) setting and duplicate it. Open this new “copy” and edit it, change the frame rate to 25fps and save as HDV-72025p.
My memory of FCP5 is you will need to change quite a few things in your User Preferences. Particularly deselect “Abort capture on dropped frames” Select “Warn After Capture” in “On Timecode Break” window.
I also remember something about reducing Pre Roll to it’s minimum 1:00 sec which seems to help with the amount of video lost at the start and stop of each take (which seemed to be as much as 5 to 8 seconds if I remember correctly).
I mainly used footage from the on board drive (DR HD100) but an upgrade to FCP6 was a relief from all the frustrations and well worth the money. (FCS and FCP7 now, but then you’ll also need an Intel Mac Pro too).
Good luck
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Re my previous post your frame rate should be 59.94 as per your Item Properties.
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In your sequence settings your Pixel Aspect Ratio should be SQUARE, leave Anamorphic unchecked.
Your frame rate should be 60 or 59.94 depending on the camera setting you originally shot (sorry I’m in PAL land and don’t have these issues also not absolutely sure what Canon did with the 7D, I know that prior to Firmware upgrades the 5D was 30p not 29.97).You really don’t need to use HQ in ProRes SQ is is equally good with this footage.
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In Easy Set Up choose FORMAT – HD, then USE – HDV-720p25.
However this camera is notorious for timecode breaks and loosing a few seconds of video at start / stops of the camera when importing to FCP. If you are using FCP6 you will get a much better workflow importing as ProRes SQ via Firewire.
Here’s how with the same camera you are using https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/vlog/?p=61
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Final Cut Pro 5 User Manual
Volume 1: Interface, Setup, and InputPage184; Types of Hard Disc Drives
ATA
Firewire
SCSI
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Try capturing as Apple ProRes.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.php
Solved the same problem for me with JVC HDV 720p capture.
https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/vlog/?p=61
It will also vastly improve your post production workflow but file sizes will be larger.
NB. HDV will always want to start a new clip at camera start / stop points on the tape.
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Neat Video is excellent, but you have to pay for it.
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The video tutorial was made specifically for the JVC system which seems to have been particularly finicky with importing into FCP. I started on FCP 5 with all the problems Colin is having. In FCP5 you could adjust FCP settings to improve the situation, however in FCP6 these adjustments didn’t seem to help and timecode breaks and gaps of up to 8 seconds between camera takes were common when importing as HDV. Don’t know why but importing as ProRes seems to eliminate all these problems (I can’t find any logical reason timecode breaks are not detected on the ProRes import).
Another problem is the way the JVC camera needs to be set up and connected, this camera has a history of catastrophic failure of the firewire circuits when hot plugging.
I don’t mean to hijack Chris’ excellent tutorial in anyway, it’s just that this one is aimed directly at specific difficulties people have had with this particular camera system.
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The best way is to import as ProRes via firewire. You only lose about 6 frames of video between camera takes (probably the 6 frame GOP structure JVC uses). Disconnect any unnecessary firewire devices before starting.
Here’s a video tutorial explaining the procedure.
https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/vlog/?p=61
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I bought the 1Gb version of the 4870 new but already flashed by the seller.
Installed in my MacPro 2.8 8 core about a month ago, it’s running faultlessly with dramatic improvements to the performance of Motion.
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