[Sage Dubois]

I am working in Final Cut Pro with HD Cam footage 1080 60i and stills. I am using text generators in Final Cut Pro. I had worked on the project on my Mac work station computer and because we had to fly out I had to take my external hard drive and laptop with me to finish. On my works station computer the text looked great in Final Cut Pro and exported just fine with no jittering text. When I opened that same project file on my Mac laptop the text in FCPro was jittery when I previewed (before I even made ANY changes) and when I exported it it remained jittery. Just wondering what may have caused this? Could it be the computer?

[Sage Dubois]

I created it with a text generator in Final Cut Pro

[Sage Dubois]

Thank YOU!!! My QT file is now playing on windows. I am going to be putting about 4 minutes of this HD footage on a 8GB key drive. What is the best way to export my FCP file so that it will play off that key drive seemlessly?

Also, I am using Toast to burn a DVD of this HD footage and when I play the DVD on my computer the text looks really blurry and pixelated. Do you know what might be causing this? When I play the DVD on tv the text is fine.

THANKS AGAIN!!!

[Sage Dubois]

Phil,

Thanks for your wonderful insight on this…..that makes a lot of sense now! I will keep experimenting to try and get the best quality. I appreciate your help 🙂

Sage

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Thanks for the catch David! I had fixed that sp error once already, but must not have saved it….

So what is the best way to export HD video from Final Cut to be suitable for the web so that it doesn’t give me this problem? What settings do I need to choose?

Thanks again!

[Sage Dubois]

Shane,
I have about 14 HDCam Tapes that have been digitized into QuickTime files. I have imported each QuickTime file into FinalCut and I am organizing the footage into subclips so it is easy to access an exact location. Our ad agency needs a particular location to use for a campaign video and they want a few different subclips I have. So what I have done is gathered the subclips they want into my timeline and now I want to export this series of clips so that they have only the footage they need. (I can’t give them the original media files because there is about 14 different QuickTime media files and they only want little pieces of each file). They will probably be editing what I give them in Final Cut Pro.

So here is the process I have used so far:
HDCam Tapes > digitized to QuickTime files > imported files to Final Cut > Edited clips into my timeline > Export to QuickTime movie > burn QuickTime movie file to DVD. Is this correct? I just want to make sure the QuickTime file I give her is the best quality and still in an HD format.

I also have a question about the Easy Setup format I should be using in Final Cut Pro…could you help me with that as well?

Thanks for your help!!!

[Sage Dubois]

Here is the image……sorry about that!

Let me try this again….So if I have footage that is 720p30 and footage that is 1080i and 29.97 fps, then what should I choose for my Easy Setup format? I am just in a crunch and need to start working with this footage and I just want to make sure I choose the right easy setup format to start working with all this footage.

[Sage Dubois]

Thanks Jeremy. I attached the image of my sequence settings for the HDCam footage again. So if I have footage that is 720p30 and footage that is 1080i and 29.97 fps, then what should I choose for my Easy Setup format? I am just in a crunch and need to start working with this footage and I just want to make sure I choose the right easy setup format to start working with all this footage.

[Sage Dubois]

Ok Jeremy….so here is what I found out…. Some of the footage was shot in 720p30 (which he said was effectively 29.97fps). The other footage I am still not so sure about…all I know is it was shot on an HDCam tape (again on the tape is says 24psf and 60i). When I bring this HDCam footage (that has been digitized and given to me as a QuickTime file) into Final Cut it gives me a message when I drag the media file into my time line that says something like “do you want your sequence settings to match the settings of your clip?” I said yes which I hope is right. The attached image shows what my sequence settings are. So now what Easy Setup format should I choose for importing the Panasonic 720p30 footage and the HDCam footage? Is there one format I can use for both?

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I actually just received the external drives with our digitized footage on it (which are now QuickTime files) as well as our original HDCam tapes. I just went and looked at the tape itself and it says 24psf (with the number 50 on top) and 60i (with the number 40 on top). I am not sure how to find the frame rate on these HDCam tapes. Any ideas?
The other guy shot in 720P…I am checking on the frame rate he used.

So what would be the next step if I find out that both frame rates are the same? What format should I use in my easy setup? Can I just import all of those QuickTime files in once I have specified my format? If I do specify a format, will the format of the orginal QuickTime media files be forever changed….or just the clips in my timeline will have that specified format? I hope this makes sense….thanks for baring through this with me! I am just used to importing my mini-dvs from my camera via firewire…I haven’t ever worked with HD footage like this. (I don’t even know what b3 or the 3:2 pulldown means).