[Rob Grauert]

Yea I know. I can’t afford a Kona card yet though. I’m still in college. I’m very lucky to have the set up I have. But I’ll take what your saying as a hint that I’m probably not doing anything wrong; I’m just not used to working with 24p and don’t have a kona card.

Thanks guys.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Thanks for responding Shane.

That’s what I am wondering. I think I might be used to the look of 60i, but I’m not sure so I figured I’d ask because my interview footage doesn’t look as choppy as the movement of the pics. But then again, they’re just talking heads, so there isn’t much movement anyway.

The video is going from mac to miniDV deck via firewire, then miniDV deck to broadcast monitor with s-video.

Thanks again.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

In Photoshop, have you tried changing the pixel aspect ratio to D1/DV NTSC (0.9)? That is the one I usually use. I’ve never used D4/D16 Standard

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

hmm. I’ve never tried to mix frame rates before, but if I were in your shoes my instincts would tell me to take the 50fps footage into Compressor and export it as 25fps. Make sure you activate the frame controls pane and select the proper options to achieve the best quality.

If you have a Kona3 card, I think it can do the conversion in real time.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Are you looking at the SD footage on an external broadcast monitor? I’ve down converted DVCProHD to DVCPro 50 in the past, and yes, the SD footage does look crappy on my computer monitor, but when I look at it on my external monitor, it looks awesome. So, make sure you are looking as the SD footage on a broadcast monitor.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Nah, the track is definitely enabled, and the audio levels are OK. The problem just started randomly. Weird. If trashing the prefs doesn’t work, maybe I’ll export the timeline to Soundtrack Pro. I just didn’t want to resort to that incase I want to move clips around. Oh well.

Thanks for your response.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Also, when I export the area of the timeline I am having problems with, narration is still not there. So it is as if too many audio tracks causes FCP to ignore other audio tracks.

Thanks for any help.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Hey Jeremy,

A the moment I’m not trying to do anything. I was just curious about the process and wanted to read about it. It amazes me that one can record uncompressed HD out of the HD-SDI connection on an affordable camera like a JVC 200U..or is it only the 250U? Either way, sounds like a good solution to me. ProRes to a laptop sounds great too.

Thank you all for the input. I’ll keep lookin into it 🙂

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

Oh, hmm…I thought it was more complicated than that. I don’t have a Kona 3 or a RAID yet, so I’ve never had a chance to experiment. Thanks for answering my question.

One last thing though. I’m assuming if you have a RAID, you want to go into System Settings and set the RAID as your Scratch Disk, correct?

Thanks again for the help.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.

[Rob Grauert]

I don’t think it is possible to select all the cuts and add a dissolve to all of them at once. I think the best thing to do is:

Go the “Effects” tab (not the effects menu). Open the “Video Transitions” folder. Choose “Cross Dissolve.” Change “Length” to the desired amount. Select “Cross Dissolve.” Right Click>Set Default Transition.

Go to the timeline. Select a cut>right click>add transition ‘cross dissolve’

Unfortunately you can only do one cut at a time, but at least all you have to do is right click on it. I feel this is the fast way, but maybe someone knows of a faster way that I haven’t discovered yet.

Robert J. Grauert, Jr.