[Russell Lasson]

[michael ryden] “thanks… so I guess when working with mixed codecs, the best idea is to keep the sequence setting at which you have the highest quality clip in your timeline.”

Yes. High quality – Good.

[michael ryden] “..so one last thing, if that is the case, how does it handle multiple frame rates? …does the timeline keep them native? …or does a NTSC-DV clip at 29.97 get converted to 23.98 with a DVC-PRO HD 24p sequence?
“

It doesn’t do it very well. Yes a 29.97 clip will be converted to a 23.98 clip if it is dropped in a 23.98 timeline. But this can cause all sorts of stuttering problems. It’s best to solve those problems on a case by case basis.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[Mark Jackson] “One person suggested that I reset my interface by pressing Command + “U””

The short cut is actually control+u. The interface issue that I’ve seen that effects playback is if the canvas is zoomed in so that you see the blue sliders on your footage. You can reset this by selecting the canvas and selecting Fit to Window (or shift+z) or just scaling the footage to a percent small enough to make the blue scoll bars go away.

It can also be an issue if another window is covering the canvas, but the first one is all most always the cause if interfaced related playback issues.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

[ErikAndre] “more so the HDV as that’s 95% of the platform I’m editing in”

What you really need to do is get your sequence settings right for HDV. You shouldn’t have to export and import or any other tricks to edit your footage. Open the sequence settings and make sure they match your clip.

From there you could either import SD footage into the same timeline and render or put the SD footage in a HDV timeline, export and reimport to edit.

But in FCP, it’s all about getting your sequence setting right so you don’t have to render everything.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

It will playback different codecs in the same timeline, but the timeline settings will have only one codec to which the renders of that timeline will be rendered.

So if I have a DV clip in a DVCPROHD timeline, it will render out a DVCPROHD clip instead of a DV clip.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

So you want to edit in HDV and get the standard definition video to playback in your HDV timeline without rendering? Right?

Easiest thing for you to do is buy FCP6. It will edit both files in the same timeline without needing to render (depending on your computer).

Or you could put your standard definition footage in a HDV timeline, export it, then bring it in and work with it.

There are other ways to do things, but they get more complete and you don’t want to go there unless the quality of what you’re currently doing isn’t acceptable.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Yes, we have the 7300 in our Mac Pro now, but we’ll be putting a Kona 3 card and the ATI X1900 XT card in it to run Color.

Check out the benchmarks on the Mac Pro Graphics test:

https://barefeats.com/quad10.html

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

So semi permanantly:)

The computer will first look for the firewire clone because that is what was selected in the system preferences, and if it’s not there, your right, it will boot of the main drive.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

I think it’s just a setting so when you create a new menu or track, that item will default to that setting. But you can still change the setting of the item individually.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Thanks Gary! Sorry I’m a little dense sometimes.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

The best graphics card that we have is the PCI-X ATI X800 XT in a G5 dual 2.5. We will be upgrading our Mac Pro to the ATI X1900 XT soon (best bang for the buck currently). My new MacBook Pro has a great NVIDIA mobile card in it. (GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB RAM)

-Russ