Rob Tinworth
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Another vote for cutting 23.98. Just remember to account for the timecode shifting when you master your 23.98 nondrop timeline to 59.94 drop. It’s about a 3 second shift over a 52 min doc.
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I run the composite video output + analogue audio into a DVCAM deck, and firewire that into a laptop. ichat/skype just thinks it’s a firewire camera. It’s a little fiddly to set up, but it lets me use the mixer to adjust the levels of my mic vs the timeline, and means I can see the output of FCP on my monitor as well.
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Not sure if this weighs into your decision at all but check out the power consumption on that beast. Plasmas use considerably more energy that LCDs or LEDs. Something to consider if you’re trying to get your carbon footprint down, or if you’re trying to keep that electricity bill down.
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Aperture 3 in the app store for $120 less than the real store? Like it or not, Apple is going to force us into that app store.
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Hard to say. It’s always worth updating the firmware.
What’s your video output set to in FCP?
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Your frame rate is fine – it’s 23.98p. Your problem is the upconversion from 720-1080. As you’ve seen, simply setting the video output to 1080 isn’t a good solution.
Go into System Settings/Blackmagic/Processing/Select output processing, and check if your Blackmagic card supports upconversion from 720 to 1080.
Ideally, I think you want your video output to be set to Blackmagic HD 720p59.94, and your system settings to be cross converting from 720 to 1080.
If your card doesn’t support upconversion, your options are to get a video card that does, or export a 720p24 quickime and try using Compressor to upconvert the clip before playout. Then you’d set your video output in FCP to Blackmagic HD 1080p 23.976-59.94 to add the 3:2 pulldown.
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I work almost exclusively remotely, using a combination of ichat and screensharing.
The real key for me is having two sets of identical media in my suite and the remote suite. Same codecs, same file structure, same drive name. That allows me to work on the cut, then use remote login and screen sharing to update my cut on the director’s suite at the end of every day, and have all the media relink automatically. Hit render on the remote machine and the director can come in the next morning and see everything in full HD.
If and when I need to work together with the director to review or tweak, I output a composite signal from my suite through a DV deck, firewired into a laptop and fed into ichat (FCP7 has a direct to ichat mode, but it cuts off the signal to your own monitor). And screen sharing allows me to see his script on his desktop wherever he is, and even annotate or edit the script.
You need a really good system of checking in and out scripts to make sure they stay in sync with your cut.
Render times can get impractical (I haven’t worked out a way of having the remote suite remember that it’s already rendered most of the sequence and only a few things have changed), so I also ftp quicktimes of the cut now and then.
This is primarily for long form work, where there’s time to capture everything, clone the drives and send them to me. For quick turnaround work where they’d have to ftp you the shots you’d need something like the proxies mentioned earlier.
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Another vote for Neat Video…
https://www.robtinworth.com/noisereduction.html
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Apple-F in the timeline allows you to select every clip that is associated with each camera. This assumes that they are named uniquely to reflect which angle they are.
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“Can we make him say ‘flowering plant’ instead of ‘angiosperm’?” Yes. Open transcript in Word. Apple F. Find flowering. Find plant. Go to FCP. Load clip that matches transcript. Go to extremely approximate timecode that transcriber could last be bothered to note. Watch in flicky sound until you find flowering. Realise that inflexion is wrong. Repeat.
If this tool can take me immediately to every single instance of a word instantly, that’s got to be a tool worth having.
I see it mainly as a way of tying the media to the transcripts.
Rob Tinworth
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