Russell Lasson
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Did you set up your color management for the project under project settings? And was the clip you captured interpreted with the correct color management in the interpretation menu?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I wouldn’t want to re-digitize 70 hours of footage!!! I’d rather put all of the footage on 4 different hard drives and ship them around the world so I had multiple copies as backups!
I would suggest getting the source tapes and at least getting the reel numbers to match. If it’s not too hard to find the first frame, you could also use the modify timecode feature in FCP to put all of the new timecode on. But that’s still quite a bit of work. It’s up to you though.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
It’s an extra step, but it’s not a problem to just downconvert it to SD then use the IOLA to make the master.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
If sounds like your footage is probably anamorphic (actually 4:3, but stretched to be 16:9). It’s not a problem, in fact, that’s how most HD formats do it.
So the answer really depends on what you’re going to be doing with the final show. If you’re going to DVD, then you just need to tell DVD Studio Pro that your footage is 16:9 instead of 4:3. If you’re going to web, the you’ll want to compress your final master at a 16:9 aspect ratio, like 640×360. So what are you finishing to?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
Well the only way to get access to the DVCPROHD codec is by installing software like FCP that has the codec. It’s not publicly available.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
It’s likely that the files are compressed as DVCPROHD or ProRes. Maybe even a form of HDV or XDCAM. May of these codecs only come with FCP, so if you don’t have it installed, you can’t play the file.
If you open the file in QT and get info about the file, it should say the codec that it was compressed as, even if you don’t have the codec. So, what does it say by the video section of get info?
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
You will edit your show in 16:9, but you will have to keep in mind that when they show the show in SD, they will crop the sides to 4:3. So none of your important titles can be in the are where they crop.
To see what I’m talking about, take a 16:9 clip and put it in a 4:3 timeline. Then scale the clip so there is no black on top or bottom. This will crop the sides.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
I actually think that some of the Dell monitors are better than the Apple monitors. Dell has been updating their monitors quite regularly to reflect better technologies. Apple hasn’t updated their monitors for quite sometime.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
[gary adcock] “yeah but that card is not going to utilize the RED functionality like the K3 will,
and by setting the quality to low – is just painful on the eyes ( imho) “I completely agree. It looks bad and I find it distracting.
[gary adcock] “Do you really gain anything over just doing a direct conversion to ProRes rather than trying to hand hold FCP to do 2048 when the card really does not want to? “
For people who don’t have a kona 3, it depends. It’s useful trick in some circumstances to be able to put 2048 in a 1920 sequence and play it out. But if I were actually editing creatively, I’d much rather convert the files to 1920 with wither a crop or letterbox for editing so I could edit in high quality without needing RTextreme.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT -
If you set up your sequence for multiple audio outputs it will do what you’re looking for. So open sequence settings, then select audio outputs and change it to the number of tracks you need. Now back in the sequence, you need to map each audio track to the right output track. So right click on over by the lock track button and change the output for the tracks you need.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Kaleidoscope Pictures
Provo, UT