[Quinimine]

Russell and Tom…cheers to you both for this great info. It’s pretty much what i suspected. I’ve basically started to just re-export them as DV clips and now working with them in FCP is much closer to my usual experience. I will tell the company to not send us content in H264

big thanks again guys.

[Quinimine]

Hi Russ;
thanks for the quick feedback. I thought that’s where the bottleneck might be occurring actually. I did try to set H.264 & 720 x480 as the compressor setting in my sequence settings but it gave me an incorrect codec error? As far as i know all the H.264 files are prepared the same. Unfortunately the client gave us the files so i have to assume they were all batch encoded since they gave us 35 clips.

-thx

[Quinimine]

Hi David
if possible can you reply to my follow up post about converting footage with Animation or Avid Meridien codecs to DVCPRO50. Just want to know if converting at this level has any effect or does it still retain the properties of how footage was originally output

thx
Q

[Quinimine]

Well yes and no. After begging and pleading we’ve finally got an external drive (office budgets…what can i cay)Also we don’t capture anything here, our client delivers hi-res QT uncompressed on DVD (several sometime). I usually drag these to the desktop and set up a folder on the iMac and store the content there. I’m guessing this is something i shouldn’t be doing judging by your post. Luckily I can start using the drive we got last week. Usually what i have been doing is once i’ve exported a finished edit i usually have to delete the source file off the OS.

Thanks for this heads up, i’ll make sure never to store media on the drive.

tx
Q

[Quinimine]

Hi David;
I have a follow up question to this thread. My company purchased Procoder and i’m now taking video we get from our partners (that is in either Animation, none, or Avid Meridien codec) and using the procoder wizard to convert it to DVCPRO50. I’m wondering if converting has any affect when working with these files in FCP, or does it still come down to how this footage was originally output. Reason i’m asking is i’m still getting some drop frames error messages coming up.

Also i noticed someone posted a question about getting the right set up and Mac to run FCP efficiently. This will be very useful info for me as well as luckily we are submitting our budget for ’07 so any hints on what we should try to get would be most helpful

Cheers
Q

[Quinimine]

Ok David i’ll get that to you asap. tHanks again

[Quinimine]

Thanks again David. In the meantime should i work safe playback setting? Will this help the drop frames issue?

[Quinimine]

Thanks for this very quick reply David…much appreciated. For future reference (so i can tell the company who are sending me content) what format can i work with where the transitions will be enabled to work in Real Time.

cheers
-q