[Robert Rooney]

Yes I had to to clear my cards. In Log and Transfer window I get the grey screen look but after the transfer I see the clips in my Browser. But styill have the TC issue.

robert

[Robert Rooney]

Hi Jeremy,

I’m shooting 720PN. I set it to Free Run today as others had suggested but it’s still starting every clip at 0:00:00;00 TC. The camera is a loner since mine’s in the shop being repaired. The file structure seems fine but every clip displays as a grey screen in the thumbnail window. When i capture to FCP no problem with thumbnail displays but the clips all sort by clip number and I can’t resort them by TC. On my record display the TC shows that it’s running in both Rec Run or Free Run. It’s just not happening to the clips once recorded. Is there a way to access clip meta data in FCP so I can sort them by other than clip names?

robert

[Robert Rooney]

ooops! Now I feel stoopid. But thanks for setting me right.

robert

[Robert Rooney]

I’m looking at this decision myself. What i know from the past is I bought one of the first MacBook Pro machines. It was great as my only edit machine with Final Cut Studio 3 and an MXO2 for monitoring but reached its peak when it maxxed out at 2Gb RAM limiting the use of Color, Motion and Soundtrack Pro.

Impossible question, I know, but can you conjecture any future limitations on a 12-core machine?

robert

[Robert Rooney]

Thanks Jeremy. I just read your Compressor workflow for reverse telecine and will try it tomorrow.

robert

[Robert Rooney]

OK I’ve figured it out. My little codec test in Compressor made me check the field dominance. All the original clips came into FCP set to None. I’ve changed them all to Upper (Odd) and the edge tearing is gone.

robert

[Robert Rooney]

The ‘remove advanced pulldown and duplicate frames’ option was checked which is what confused me.
I just tried recompressing a clip with several codecs in Compressor. DVCPRO HD 720p24 loses the edge tearing, looks pretty good but with a slight motion blur on the frames that had tearing and it gives me 23.98 fps. But HD Uncompressed 8-bit 1080p24 retains the tearing at 23.98fps.

Uncompressed 8-bit 1080i60 however looks great but I can’t actually play it on my MacBook Pro with G-RAID firewire800 drives. But at least i know I can recompress the used clips once I’ve edited the piece.

But still scratching my head about this.

robert

[Robert Rooney]

Thanks Jeremy and John. I’ll stop worrying. But for future reference if I’d used 24PA instead of 24P would I have avoided some of this tearing?

robert

[Robert Rooney]

Thanks. I should have mentioned I used an HVX200. I went back to P2 cards in camera and indeed the time code goes at 30fps although the codec says 24P which suggest the camera did do a pulldown. But something more alarming is I’m getting edge tearing every 2 frames out of 5 (that is 3 clear frames followed by 2 with edge tearing) a consistent pattern. It’s not evident when I advance frame by frame in camera on the card but very evident in Final Cut and also when i check the .mov file in QuickTime

robert

[Robert Rooney]

Thanks Jeremy,

I’ve found a solution by exporting audio to OMF and then also sending a copy of the job file without media.

Audio post can then open the off line job file in FCP and copy my mix to the Pro Tools session with my OMF media files.

Cheers,

Robert