[Ryan Foregger]

Here’s what I’ve determined to be the best “solution.”

If you choose the menu item MIXER you can select the mic and dial them all the way down to mute. This mutes monitoring them and you don’t see the levels (a little annoying) but you are actually recording the internal mics.

Then I pan the input channels, 1 Left, and 2 Right.

So when I record, I can’t see or hear the internals but they are rolling for safety, just in case sake.

I think it would have been better for Zoom to use some off those “Quick Buttons” 1-4 for something more practical than say changing the recording format.

Ahh well, a little more scratch and I’ll get a mixer and not monitor the recorder as much.

[Ryan Foregger]

Thanks Dave and Christian.

I have been doing the quit application, restarts, preferences, but its so hard to judge because it happens so randomly.

Looking at my sequence, I am indeed working with a music track that is 44.1. I’ll convert these in the future, because as you’ve experienced, it is unbearable when it happens.

Makes me afraid to press the spacebar.

[Ryan Foregger]

No, the shot is locked down. I’m using corner pin to get the text in line with the perspective of the building as it scrolls from bottom to top.

[Ryan Foregger]

Thanks guys, I’ll upload a still.

I had to turn something in this morning and what I ended up doing was rasterizing the text, changing the perspective in photoshop, dropping that into a precomp that was similar in size to wall of the building and doing the scroll in that precomp.

Then I dropped that in the main comp and corner pinned it, adjusting as it went. Eventually the corner-pin got so skewed that it started clipping the pre-comp. I made it work (client approved), but wasn’t happy with the results.

I’ll investigate your responses.

[Ryan Foregger]

CC Particle World, perfect. Thank you Erik!

[Ryan Foregger]

I noticed that about the lower field request. Interesting thing about that, my source file has field dominance at none, and I was able to change it to lower in the sequence without “seeing” any change. But the whole thing seems screwy nonetheless.

So, 1 vote for not possible…

[Ryan Foregger]

I’m guessing if your only have FCP Express, it explains both your points. I’ve never had FCP Express, I have the full version but Pro Res Codec probably is not avail with FCP Express. Not super important.

This mpg2 component is probably the deal breaker. It comes with FCP Studio so you’d have to buy it separately from Apple to make this work. I don’t think there is a way around that.

Sorry

[Ryan Foregger]

Adding on to what Jason said, if you have, as I read in your post, just a dvd of the footage, use Mpeg streamclip.

Put your dvd in and copy the Video_TS folder to your hard drive (converting off the dvd takes forever)

Open the Video_TS folder and sort by file size. Drag the largest .VOB file into mpeg streamclip. If it ask you if you want to open the stream as a dvd, choose no. You should be able to see your clip in the streamclip viewer.

Choose FILE>EXPORT TO QUICKTIME from the menu bar.

You get a movie exporter settings box. Change your settings to:
Compression Apple Pro Res, (Apple Intermediate Codec if you want a smaller file size)
Quality 100%
Sound Uncompressed
FrameSize: Unscaled. You have some options here if you know what you want, but if you don’t know, go with unscaled and you’ll get what you already have.
Leave Frame Rate empty
Deselect Interlaced Scaling and Reinterlace Chroma

Click “Make movie”

It will create a quicktime you can bring into your editing software.

There may be other VOB’s you’ll need to convert to get the whole program. Repeat the process with the largest VOBs, once they get under 1MB, they’re not the files you need.

[Ryan Foregger]

Doing that leaves me with lots of 1 frame gaps in the editing timeline. I’m assuming it has to do with the added pulldown to make 29.97 out of the 23.976 and a result of converting the 29.97 to 23.976.

As the project is in the middle of sound mix, there are worries about sync, etc…

[Ryan Foregger]

hi dave,

“Change the duplicated sequence to DVDProHD, 960×720, anamorphic (if necessary), and 23.98 fps.”

The only problem here is that you can’t change the Editing Timebase in sequence settings. Otherwise, yes, that fixes the scaling and codec issue.