Sean Lander
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If you have timecoded slates you can punch the timecode you see on the screen into an aux code for the audio file.
Or if you don’t care about the timecode field you can put it in there. Then joining the audio clip to the video will be a snap. Just use the “merge clips” command and select either Timecode or AUX TImecode whichever suites you best. -
No quite the same thing but I find that if I try to open a boris title that has been rendered I get a FCP crash.
Whole app disappears. Solution is to unrender the title first. Bizarre. -
Well in the last 3 years of laying off to tape it has never been a problem until now. Have been able to insert accurately 100% of the time in the past as well. So I think it’s more a recent problem with either the Decklink or FCP. I have noticed that 5.1.2 does seem to do some things a little differently.
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I can confirm this is an issue for us as well. FCP 5.1.2 QT 7.1.3. Decklink Pro.
Trying to layoff DV via SDI to DigiBeta PAL. Will sometimes miss by 1 frame.
Try again and it will hit the mark so there is now way of compensating for it. -
[walter biscardi] “Just curious how Avid teaches standards that others don’t? Avid doesn’t magically make you a broadcast editor. Any NLE can cut to broadcast standards, it’s whether the operator knows how to work in broadcast standards that make the difference. The Avid I learned on couldn’t cut broadcast material because it didn’t have high enough resolution for broadcast. The Media 100’s I cut on for 6 years sure did, but they didn’t teach me how to conform to broadcast standards. 5 years at CNN taught me that.”
I guess what I am trying to say Walter is that an Avid which cost over $100,000 back in the day was not the sort of thing you could buy and take home to learn. They were usually kept in Post Production houses. Hence to learn Avid you had to work in that environment. Much like your CNN experience. So I it’s not really the Avid itself more the environment you were in where it was used. Today you can buy FCP, put it on a Mac Mini and play with it for as long as you like, never having to think about such things as VITC, Blanking, +O.3 IRE etc etc. How often do we read on these forums people asking the most basic of questions about standards. Thank god these forums exist
where the ones who have done the training can pass on the knowledge to those who haven’t.Of course this is all from my experience in OZ and it may be different in the US.
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No that was not it. The shot I was inserting was clean, cuts both sides, but for what it’s worth I have inserted to tape before where the outpoint was right in the middle of a smash zoom. No problem what so ever.
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Never had a sync problem. I do always reboot as it makes a massive difference as to what has to be rendered before playout to tape. Even making sure that all windows bar the browser and the edit to tape window are closed makes a huge difference. This problem has occurred now on two different systems both with FCP 5.1.1 and 5.1.2.
However I haven’t yet tried it with the new Decklink drivers (5.7.2) don’t know if there was anything in there to address this problem. -
I have found this will happen if you have FCP set to ignore TC breaks and alert you after. If you set it to make new clip I think you’ll find the problem will go away.
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We have found the same issues. There is occasionally a one frame delay on output to DIgital Betacam.
The only solution we’ve had success with is to keep trying until it eventually gets it. This was never a problem before. Only since 5.7 drivers. We are outputting Blackmagic DV. -
As far as Avid editors being passed over I know that I would much rather employ someone who grew up on Avid than someone who is self taught on FCP. One of the good things about Avid is it taught disciplines that need to be adhered to in the broadcast world. You wouldn’t believe how much work I get fixing up stuff that has been put together by kids who haven’t learnt anything about standards. Not saying they can’t cut, it varies as much as any genre of editor. I gave Avid 10 years until they upset me one too many times. Made the switch in 2001 and have been riding that wave ever since. I know can refuse Avid jobs.
All the advice here is top notch, don’t be nervous you’ll get the hang of it in no time. And like me you’ll begin to wonder why it wasn’t always done like this. Apart from media management that is. 😉 ENJOY!