[Russell Lasson]

I always do a full render before I output to tape. I just consider it “best practices.” It just opens the door to something going wrong later if I don’t.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

If you are opening it from the dock, the alias is still referencing the NFR application. Look in the Applications folder and see if there are multiple versions of FCP. You might be opening up the old one. Find the old one and delete it and replace the icon on the dock with the new version.

Your best bet is to probably just to delete anything that says final cut pro in a finder search and reinstall.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Did you delete your preferences?

In you home folder go to library/preferences/Final Cut Pro User Data/ and delete the prefs file and the cache file. (or just move them to the desktop if you don’t want to delete them right away.)

Did this fix it?

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Does this help?

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/931086?

Thanks to Gary if it does.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Create a new bin. Select everything in your timeline and select edit-copy. Open the bin and select edit-paste.

All clips from you timeline are pasted into the bin.

Now make sure your browser in in list view and scroll over to frame size. Click directly on it and it will sort and tell you the clips that are PAL (720×546 or 540) and NTSC (720×486 or 480.)

Now you can do a find in your timeline and it will show you where each clip is.

There are other ways of doing it, but this was the first thing that came to mind.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

After editing many shows with 24P issues, I have a policy to edit at whatever the show was shot at.

If the show was shot at 24P on a DVX100, then the camera added a 2:3 pulldown to convert it to 29.97. Changes are, all of your footage is at 29.97. What is your timeline set at? 23.98 or 29.97? Do you have to render every clip when you put it on your timeline?

If your footage had been shot at 24PA then you could have removed the 2:3:3:2 (24PA) pulldown when you digitized it over firewire. But since you shot it at 24P, you’ll need to use Cinema Tools. You’ll want to try it on a couple of test clips first so you figure out how to do it.

It isn’t necessary to remove the pulldown, but I do it because I’m kind of a video pureist and I consider it a type of post production “best practices.”

One advantage is that you can encode a 23.98 file straight to MPEG-2 and put it on a DVD. DVD players have the option of playing it out with a 2:3 pulldown (for most TVs) or progressive scan (for certain projectors and flat panel TV that can handle 24P footage.)

Sorry if this is a little confusing. Good luck though and feel free to ask any other questions.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

It should work fine, though I live in a Panasonic world where very few things are really 23.98, so I’ve never been able to send a true 23.98 signal to my capture card.

We’ve got both Kona and Decklink setups that 1080p 23.98 to DVCPROHD settings. So if the camera is exporting a true 23.98 signal, then it should take it in. If you have any questions, just call they guys at AJA. They have wonderful tech support of these types of questions.

If I have some time, for fun, I’ll set up one system to play out a 1080/24P signal and see if the other can digitize it.

(boy, if that what I do “for fun” then my therapist is right. I do have some serious problems.)

-Russ

PS What Sony camera is it?

[Russell Lasson]

Yes, QuickTime handles uncompressed files. Final Cut Pro is just big interface for editing QuickTime movies.

What type of RAID do you have? What’s your frame rate of the 720P footage? Is it 8-bit or 10-bit?

(You really don’t need to answer these questions to me, but you should be asking yourself these questions as they all determine if your setup is really fast enough to do what you want it to do.)

DATA RATES

Uncompressed 10-bit 720/24P – 60MB/sec
Uncompressed 10-bit 720/60P – 150MB/sec
Uncompressed 8-bit 720/24P – 45MB/sec
Uncompressed 8-bit 720/60P – 111MB/sec

So how fast is your RAID? You want it to be significantly faster than your video data rate. If it isn’t, I suggest exporting to DVCPROHD for your screening, just to make sure you don’t drop frames.

How did I know all of these data rates? A free data rate calculator!!!

https://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_Data_Rate_Calculator_v2.app.tar

How can you test the speed of your RAID? A free system tester!!!

https://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_KONA_System_Test_v2.app.tar

Good luck in all of your uncompressedness.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Yes there is. You can use DVCPROHD at any of the basic frame rate. So for progressive frame rates you would have 1080/60P, 1080/24P, and maybe a few others. You just need to have your source footage be 1080/*.

One example of 1080/24P would be transfering film to a DVCPROHD deck with a 2:3 pulldown. When you get it into post, you can remove the pulldown and have 1080/24P.

Another example are certain Panasonic P2 cameras like the HVX200. They can shoot in 1080/24P using a 2:3 pulldown. Then when you import it into FCP, you can remove the pulldown and edit at 1080/24P.

I’ve never really heard of a way to aquire 1080/60P that is currently in use. That is unless someone is out shooting with a prototype RED ONE right now.

-Russ

[Russell Lasson]

Not sure. I’ll have to play with the firestore that we have here. I’ll give it a try soon. Maybe someone else that is more experienced with the firestore could answer.

-Russ