[Schureman Lear]

Oh whoops… mixed up version numbers. Yeah, QT is 7.5.5.

[Schureman Lear]

Ooo. Yeah, that could definitely be the culprit. I am on OS 10.5.5. My iTunes is at 8.0, though.

[Schureman Lear]

I don’t have a capture card. It’s always worked flawlessly with the whole Log + Transfer rigamarole.

When I go through frame by frame the jump doesn’t look like pulldown distortion. It literally looks like a non-sequential frame was inserted from a nearby portion of the clip and then it goes back to normal frame sequence. Nothing is actually distorted though.

I wonder who the culprit is — FCP, the camera or me?

[Schureman Lear]

The frame rate of the sequence setting that conformed to the clip is now 29.97 fps. Compressor Apple Prores422.

I pulled them in from the camera using Log + Transfer.

Thanks for your help in all of this, by the way.

[Schureman Lear]

It’s still jumping :(.

[Schureman Lear]

The captured clip is at 29.97fps, pro res 422. The sequences are at 23.98 but I see the leaping when I play it in the viewer, before the clip ever reaches the sequence. The camera shoots at 30fps, I believe, and my capture compression preset is DVCPRO HD 1080p30.

[Schureman Lear]

Yep, I imported footage that was mistakenly shot in 29.97 DVPRO HD (it should have been shot at 24fps). Then I mistakenly edited it on a sequence that was the PAL 1080i50 (!!!). Don’t ask why. Now I want to take the promo that lives on the PAL sequence and move it over to the correct global setting — HD at 24 fps.

The majority of our footage was shot correctly and imported correctly but this little subset of our work is pretty gnarled. Salvagable? Fingers crossed.

[Schureman Lear]

yes! huzzah! downloading demo…

[Schureman Lear]

Thanks for your feedback, Shane, but I guess I still don’t get it. I don’t use every log note that I create within FCP in my final cut but being able to create a comprehensive overview of the material seems pretty crucial to the editing process. I guess the answer may be to cough up 300 bucks per AE (yikes on a tight budget) for an auxiliary program that can do what seems like a no-brainer for FCP to provide or have the AEs jockeying between multiple applications, such as quicktime and word to manually type in timecode. It offends my sense of efficiency! As does tying up computers sending out low res renders of l’il QT files. I dunno. I’m newish to the doc workflow process so maybe I’m just newbie-ing out here but I’m surprised at this particular stumbling block regarding a piece of the puzzle that seems so basic + easy. One button TC stamping…. looping playback… printable results. Bam! Awesome. There’s your transcript, linked to your clip + ready to rock, printable for a paper edit, viewable in the project file. 🙂

[Schureman Lear]

I’m downloading the demo now. It looks promising!