[Richard Sanchez]

With a messed up frame rate your footage will playback very stuttery. No, you can’t just change your sequence settings to fix that. The issue is not just the framerate, since you captured on “Non-Controllable Device” Final Cut did not see the appropriate frames that were flagged to be removed. While it might be possible to capture as 23.976 without these frames flagged, it won’t be removing the right frames, and it will give you problems. I could get more technical on this, but just trust me on this one.

I would consider recapturing everything you captured yesterday using the DVCPRO HD 23.976 Easy Setup (even if it looks fine and was captured at 23.976) because in my mind, it can’t be trusted.

For playback, Walter mentioned the IOHD, great product, also you could playback using the Matrox MXO2.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

If you captured using a non-controllable device, I can’t image Final Cut was able to properly see the flagged frames in order to remove the pulldown. The clips that showed up as 59.94 would look that way, because on tape, it is inherently 59.94 but the camera flags redundant frames so that they can be removed on capture so that you work at 23.976 in the NLE.

Now, your biggest issue is since you captured using non-controllable device, you’re not going to have corresponding timecode. If you’re doing this for a network, or really, anywhere that might require an EDL or a recapture, that can not be done. The only fix for this, would be to recapture all 12 hours of footage with the appropriate device control. Use and trust the Easy Setups, they work well.

As far as putting the project into a 4×3 frame, with black on the bottom only. I would cut the sequence in it’s native format. Once done, I’d copy it into a 720×480. Resize the first clip, and then use “Paste Attributes” to adjust the proceeding clips.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

MC 3.5.1 isn’t qualified with OSX 10.5.7 That could be an issue.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

You also want to keep in mind that some networks prefer captions formatted differently. Be it three line roll up, and what not. You’ll also need to mindful of lower thirds, so as not to have the captions block those.

Chris Borjis had a recent thread on how he inserts captions with After Effects. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1035854#1035914

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Have you used Frame controls to use a better deinterlacing algorithm?

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

You’re using MPEG Streamclip to deinterlance, correct? You could use compressor to do that, and use QMaster to allow compressor to use multiple cores.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

What Zane told you is correct. If the program isn’t written to take advantage of all available cores, that’s a limitation of the program and something you’re going to simply have to live with. The program is free, you can’t expect it to have everything.

You could consider setting up a cluster using QMaster to have Compressor use more cores, and that might help you. (There are considerable postings on this in the compression techniques forum so I won’t repeat it here), also Sorenson Squeeze is made to use multiple cores, but that program is not free.

The other issue is, as fast as your system is, HDV requires considerable horsepower to process due to the long GOP nature of the codec, so it won’t get transcoded as quickly as an I-Frame codec.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

That’s indeed weird. You might try trashing your preferences.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Anytime!

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Richard Sanchez]

Looks like I was mistaken. You can set the video to “pass-through” like you can with the audio, so what you can do is bring your clip into compressor and use one of the audio templates.

And cut the resulting AIF audio file underneath your clip. You could link them with the cmd-L shortcut.

Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks