[Rafael August]

Shane,

I was hoping you would read my post. Thanks.

We will deliver what ever format I suggest after I sort out the mess. They have no broadcast plans but hope for it. They will do the film festival circuit and then it will go to DVD.

I was thinking 1080i 24fps

24fps because is seemed like it made the most sense considering all the formats being used.

If it went to broadcast them I could output 1080i 29.97 through a Kona3 or Mxo2 and add the pulldown after the edit.?

They can’t afford to send all the tapes to a house to be converted on a terranex.

My problem actually gets bigger.

I am taking a project that has been on Sony Vegas for five years and transferring it to FCP. The project is a mess, with original source material captured with different codecs and frame sizes and frame rates than the original.

I’m using automatic duck to take an AAF into FCP and then bring it on line. It works as long as there are no effects on the Vegas Veg File.

Since everything has been goofed up I wanted to capture all the tapes again and upconvert them with a capture card.

The Migraine kicks when I think about how everything will be off when I bring it online once I have converted all the footage to a single format.

Feels like hell but I like a challenge.

Rafael

[Rafael August]

That makes total sense. Thank you Gareth. I’ll give it a try.

[Rafael August]

Ted,

Drag the file to the canvas but don’t release the button. A drop menu will come up and ask you if you want to import merged layers, import all layers or select layers to import.

[Rafael August]

Wow, that’s great Jonathan. Thank you for all the information. I’ll give it a try.

[Rafael August]

Greg,

Calibrated is working fine. I can import and play everything. I’m just unsure if I’m getting myself into a bad situation by using the non optimized clips which only happens from the files that are sent from sony vegas. Right now I’m working on a mac book pro 2.53ghz 4gm ram. I need to get on a faster machine.

This project is huge and is starting to take forever to open up when I launch the project. I’m starting to break the project into smaller sequences so it doesn’t have to read everything before opening.

Thanks for your help,

Rafael

[Rafael August]

I have calibrated Q which lets me import mxf files from the xd cam and the p2 cards. But without the original file structure fcp won’t read the files for multi stream playback. Does this program do anything different than calibrated?

I’ll check it out thanks.

Rafael

[Rafael August]

Jeremy,

There are a number of different codecs used, dv/dvc pro ntsc, dv pal, xd cam422 1080i60 to just name a few.

[Rafael August]

Hi all,

I’m having the same problem on my Mac Book Pro and I do not have the magic bullet plug in. I am conforming a sequence from an AAF via Automatic Duck. The sequence isn’t very long but Final Cut takes forever to open the project. I have added Calibrated Q and Sony xd cam transfer.

I’m running FCP 7 on OSX 10.6. The problem only seems to happen when I’m plugged into my G Tech 2tb drive.

Any suggestions to help the project open faster?

Thanks,

Rafael

[Rafael August]

I think the file structure was changed when these files were brought into Sony Vegas and re-wrapped. I’m not quite sure but I can’t do anything with the files. The other XdCam files I’m working with are different and they work fine.

[Rafael August]

Thank you John for your help. I uprezed a test for the pal footage and it seems to be working. There was some interlacing showing but the de-interlace filter took that out.

What is the downside to not conforming all my hd footage to 25fps and changing the time base on the pal footage to 29.97? I’m trying to save some time so I don’t have to re-compress everything.

Thanks again,

Rafael