Robb Harriss
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I’m not sure yet to do it with file-based footage. I work from HDCAM tape, and it’s relatively easy. You are using MTS files?
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do it with ProRes Proxy. And how are you getting your HD into your machine in the first place?
What are the specs on your computer? What do you mean by HD?Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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A proper workflow for what? What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to work out an offline/online (wow those terms are 22 years out of date) then you’re talking ProRes Proxy and ProRes 422 for finishing.
What do you mean by “HD?”Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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It’s a number deal. It doesn’t have to be the actual timecode, but it’s a counter that you can set to whatever you want, the idea being that you could give it an offset.
Now subtitles, that’s another thing altogether. The point of this exercise is to be as work reduced and fast as possible. Normally, subtitles come out in the DVD, so if you want to go to all the trouble of burning a DVD, well there you go. However, FCP7 now has the ability to embed the subtitles in timeline markers, which then are supposed to carry forward into DVD SP. I haven’t used it yet, so I have no empirical data. But it may be possible to export a file from FCP with the subtitles on. Generally the way to embed titles into a QT file is with CaptionMax, which Shane will tell you is expensive but it works. I’m messing with Captionate to see if I can embed them in Flash files. Maybe that will do more.
I do a lot of translation work, both setting up projects for translation and creating the finished work back here. My process has been based primarily a text document with columns for the timecode, English, Translation and character. I send along some sort of window burn so the translator can watch and get the context. With the translation placed in the appropriate boxes in the template any editor, sound or picture, can edit voice tracks or subtitles. I even once did a fire prevention piece in Hmong. We read it phrase by phrase and numbered each one on tape so I could locate them. I even had it set up so my old Discreet Edit could read the modified table and it would make 350 subtitles for me in about 20 seconds, all numbered according to the script. All I had to do was listen along in English and drop each one in place. Now most shows are dubbed. We finally convinced the foreign distributors to spend the money.
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do it on the outboard end in compressor. Or on the inboard end.
Are you trying to edit MP4 in FCP? What format did you convert it to?Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Do it in AE, Motion or Combustion, Smoke on Mac, etc. They’re resolution independent. It’s part of their value.
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get off my lawn!
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I used to use Squeeze for this but it uses the VC1 codec and our streaming service was having some issues with that. The Flip4mac uses the WM9 codec and while older seemed to left our customers view the streaming files easier. But we’ve moved away from them anyway into flash and mp4/h.264 for html5
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I know that some of those decks won’t do controlled print to tape. It’s the deck not FCP. they were that way on my discreet edit systems. I thought the 1800 might. Not sure on that one.
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That’s what I’m using, with the eSata connection to the Mac Pro. OWC sells an extension cable that connects to an open internal SATA connection on the logic board and leads to an external connection plate on the back of the machine. 500 gig drives for cheap. I use it for backup.
You know, you could use LT instead of full ProRes 422. We work in proxy and then reload the final show in ProRes 422 or HQ. We start with 40 or 50 hours of footage that’s whittled down to 20 or 30 minutes in the end.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.