[Robert Withers]

Actually, there are many examples of following a score to music on youtube, some with a highlight bar for where you are in the score. Even some tutorials. Apparently there is a special web site for synching scores,

[Robert Withers]

Bret and Todd,

Here are some discoveries related to my query.

Bret, you are SO RIGHT! I went back and used MediaInfo on different copies of my video files and they were all 23.976 fps. I then started up my Canon Vixia and went through the menus — one option is to record at 23.976 fps, which is as close as it gets to 24. This is the cheapest Canon model that doesn’t limit recording to 29.etc fps.

The anomaly I remembered was with the film of a friend who had shot in film at 24 fps, had it transferred to 24 fps progressive video but edited in FCP7 which interprets 24 as 23.976, exported .mxf files for a mix then found that the mix seemed to slip out of synch at the rate of about 1 frame per 1,000 frames so that it was out significantly at the end of the 80 minute show. We never really figured that one out for sure but the mixer fixed it and it wasn’t critical for that film.

As to your comment that it doesn’t matter because it’s modern and digital, Todd, I don’t really follow this though it may be true. Does an audio track recorded at 48k sampling rate play any differently when matched to 24 fps vs 23.97 fps? That’s over my pay grade, but I did decide that if I was cutting to fractional time rhythms I had do know whether I was counting frames at 24 fps or 30 fps. 6 frames is 4 per second and 8 frames is 3 per second. In the stuff I do that makes a difference.

The weird answer for the AME commands was this:

If I used two of 3 methods, either importing AVCHD files from a card copy into the Media Browser in AME and dragging a custom preset onto the selected files, or bringing files in the same way and doing Apply to Queue, AME would apply a standard Premiere Pro Res 23.976 preset to them all. The only way I could get AME to use my preset was to copy the AVCHD files to a desired folder using the Mac finder and then import them into the queue window by double-clicking in an empty space to import them from the finder location instead of the AME browser. That way AME used my custom preset (which was ProRes HQ 24 fps) to import them.

Thanks again for everyone’s responses.

Cheers,

Robert

[Robert Withers]

Hi Andres, Imagine you are thinking of something like this . . . I don’t know how it’s done …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuSmPshVGDA

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[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Bret and Todd for your thoughts. I bought this Canon because the sales guy at B&H said it does true 24fps. And that’s what Media Info says the files are. The Canon offers both options.

A friend had a weird sync issue with a mix of her 75 min film that we speculated was due to the difference, based on the numbers and FCP7.

In any case, someone suggested trying to encode 10-20 files at a time instead of 500. I’ll try that.

Thanks again for the input,

Cheers

[Robert Withers]

Hi Fay,
You can buy FCP7 disks on ebay for reasonable prices. What OS and machine will you run them on?

I personally have found Resolve quite different from both FCP7 and Premier Pro.

Good luck,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

Currently experimenting with iMac 2019, Catalina
3.6 MHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
16 GB Memory
GPU Radeon Pro 575X (4 GB)

[Robert Withers]

Hi Pauline,
Can’t comment on recent MacBook Pros but I’ve been using a 2019 iMac with Catalina. I wanted to downgrade to Mojave but found I couldn’t with this machine because the hardware is tuned to run only with Catalina. Maybe you could with a 2018 machine.
This Catalina runs Adobe Premiere Pro 2019 just fine. I wanted to avoid Adobe 2020 but learned that Adobe only “supports” the previous two years of the software (that is, they won’t answer questions about older versions) so Adobe would have to be updated at least once a year if you want them to answer any questions.
I’ve heard that AMC just published a version that runs on Catalina but don’t know anything about that.
People tell me that you need the most powerful and modern graphics card to run DaVinci Resolve but I think you don’t want to do that.
That’s all I know about Catalina and Adobe.
Cheers,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

Currently experimenting with iMac 2019, Catalina
3.6 MHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
16 GB Memory
GPU Radeon Pro 575X (4 GB)

[Robert Withers]

Hi all,
Has anyone had a hard drive fail in a RAID? Or two failures at the same time?
My Seagate and G-Tech drives are running after years but I have to replace one because a Firewire connector failed.
I’m planning to get a T-bolt 3 G-Tech 10 TB drive but what will I do for backup? Seagate’s Backup Plus Hub at 10TB costs half the G-Tech but I can’t find how fast the disk spins.
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

Currently experimenting with iMac 2019, Catalina
3.6 MHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
16 GB Memory
GPU Radeon Pro 575X (4 GB)

[Robert Withers]

Hi Jenn,
That’s so interesting. I could buy two of those for the price of a single G-Tech 10TB drive. And then I’d have a backup. I can’t find specs for how fast the drive is — 5400 or 7200. The xfer speed is supposedly 160 MB/s . Is it fast enough for video editing?
This from B&H: Seagate’s Backup Plus Hub is compatible with both Windows and Mac systems. It is pre-formatted for Windows and Mac compatibility requires the downloadable NTFS driver for Mac.
Cheers,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

Currently experimenting with iMac 2019, Catalina
3.6 MHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
16 GB Memory
GPU Radeon Pro 575X (4 GB)

[Robert Withers]

Thanks everybody for the helpful posts. I’m not editing 4K.
You would think there would be hard data somewhere showing use of computer resources by NLEs, compared.
But maybe not.
Best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

Currently experimenting with iMac 2019, Catalina
3.6 MHz 8-Core Intel Core i9
16 GB Memory
GPU Radeon Pro 575X (4 GB)

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, David.
Maybe that will work for my Canon-recorded cards too.
Always try the old right-click to see what happens.
Best,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City