Sean Oneil
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[Alan Okey] “You’re VERY lucky that you didn’t hose your data or your motherboard by hot-swapping your drives. Hot swapping is most definitely NOT supported on the Mac Pro’s internal drives, and doing so could damage your system or your drives and void the warranty.
“I agree, don’t do it. It’s not meant to work and you could lose data. But doing so won’t fry your motherboard, and even if it did they’d have no way of knowing what caused it – thus it wouldn’t affect your warranty if you don’t tell them.
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A while back, there was a company that sold turnkey Linux NLEs. I forget what they were called. I think it was “Linux Media Arts” or something like that. Check the Linux board here on the cow.
The systems used Cinelerra and an SDI capture card. Don’t know what card it was or where the drivers came from.
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You have to use 6.2. It still works on a non-Intel Mac.
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Firefox on my PC has always had it.
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Reel and TC info is stored within the Quicktime media itself, not in Final Cut.
You have to duplicate the media in the Finder and the import the new clip. Then you can change the reel.
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Good luck.
Sean
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One other thing. If you decide to use CT, you don’t need to convert your 24pA footage to JPEG. CT should automatically convert that no problems (except it seems you were having problems). Anyway, I would try and put 24pA footage on separate video tracks form the regular 24 footage. Then you can just use MM to convert the 24 footage.
Also, your speed changes are hosed. You’re gonna have to redo them. Again, you can always take it to a high-end shop that has a Teranex and let them deal with it.
Sean
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I don’t know why FCP is reporting the wrong framerates. But what I can tell you is that you cannot reverse telecine AFTER editing in 29.97. Final Cut and Cinema Tools cannot detect cadance automatically with 3:2:3:2 pulldown. It can only reverse 24A automatically.
Cinema Tools can reverse 3:2:3:2, but you have manually to specify the cadence for each individual clip. Furthermore, it won’t even do 3:2:3:2 pulldown if the codec is DV. It stupidly assumes that 24fps DV footage must be 24A (this may have been fixed in later versions – you shouldn’t use DV anyways because it’s very lossy to re-encode).
You have three options:
1) If you have all the source tapes, the best solution for you to do is convert the EDL to 23.98 and batch re-capture everything at 23.98. That should do it.
2) Lay it off as 29.97 to a Digibeta. Take it somewhere that has a Teranex and have them deal with it. Tell them you want it converted to 23.98 and delivered on a hard drive. This will naturally cost a lot of dough.
3) If you’re stuck with the media you already captured, you can use the “recompress” feature in Media Manager and convert all the media you are using to Photo-JPEG @ 75% quality. Use the “delete unused media” option so you only have the stuff you need. Make sure you add a few frames of handles. Now you’ll have a folder full of new media. Run each clip through CT and do a manual reverse telecine. You’ll have to jog through the first few frames to identify the cadence. If you can’t tell then its trial and error. 5 possibilities. Obvioulsy this will take a very, very long time. Sorry. Save it to its own folder. It keeps the same names but adds “.rev” at the end.
Once that’s done, start a new FCP project and import all the .rev clips. Now you can look at the media TC in the Browser. You’ll need this. Open up your working project and copy and paste everything from your sequence to a new 23.98 sequence. Now reconnect everything to the new media and use the other project to determine what clips connect to what media. This will also be a pain in the ass. Sorry.
Now go through every single edit point. You will find that a large amount of your edits are either a frame too short or too long. This is because you made non-film-safe inter-frame edits within fields via your 29.97 editing. So you have to manually correct this by trimming each edit point that needs it.
4) You could export your 29.97 sequence to a self-contained QT movie and try using a free program called JES Deinterlace (google it). It can do a reverse telecine on your whole project whilst detecting cadence breaks. I played around with it and it seemed to work, but I never actually used it in a meaningful way. Might be worth trying, but your 24A footage will probably prevent this from working.
This is why I tell everyone to capture and edit the native frame rate of the source footage no matter what.
Sean
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Actually I think the MacBook uses an Intel integrated GPU.
Sean
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You’re fine. It already has it.