[Shane Ross]

Yeah, well….cutting and pasting is awfully quick…

[Shane Ross]

All video runs at 29.97 fps in NTSC land. The drop/non-drop thing refers to the timecode numbers themselves…that it. with drop frame timecode, numbers are dropped every couple minutes in order to insure proper timing, since video runs slightly slower than 30fps.

Something else is going on. What is the audio rate of the clip? 44.1k? 48k?

[Shane Ross]

FCP doesn’t like MP3s. At all. You MUST convert this to an .aiff file, 48khz, 16-bit stereo in order for it to work properly:

Shane’s Stock Answer #5:

To get music into FCP, it needs to be an AIFF file at 48khz, 16 bit stereo. So if you want a song from a CD, you go into the iTunes Preferences and set this up under the IMPORTING tab:

File > preferences > importing > import using – AIFF encoder > Setting – Custom
Sample Rate – 48.000 kHz
Sample size – 16 bit
Channels – Stereo

If you have an mp3 that you want to use, then you can convert it thru iTunes as well.

If the piece of music you want to use is something you purchased thru iTunes, I’m afraid I can’t help you there. There are copywrite issues that prevent files from being converted into the format that FCP can recognize.

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[Shane Ross]

Capture DV quality now (the camera should have the option to switch from HDV to DV) then capture HDV when the cavalry arrives.

[Shane Ross]

What form of HD? The anything higher than DVCPRO HD and FW 800 drives ain’t gonna cut it. Need an 8 Drive SATA Raid, or Ultra SCSI or Fibrechannel array for that.

Try:
Digital Film Tree
West Post Digital
Plastercity Post

[Shane Ross]

Nope, there isn’t.

But there is this nice thing….

https://proapptips.com/tips/article.php?story=2005092107133358

[Shane Ross]

Maybe. If you were a professional colorist and took a LOOOONG time. Light leaks, especially moving ones, are near impossible. We had a bad one, but had to have a VFX company AND a colorist fix it.
Not cheap.

[Shane Ross]

That’s nice to know.

Not that my protools guy uses my prelay. Sometimes he does, sometimes he does it from scratch. But nice to know that it is now preserved.

[Shane Ross]

Automatic Duck. Look it up and see if it will do this for Nuendo. I know it does it for ProTools.

And as far as I knew, I thought that the OMF directly from FCP to protools ALSO didn’t preserve the rubberbanding. That you needed the Duck for that too…

[Shane Ross]

If one of the cameras has Component out, then yes, that would be the way to go. Compoent out from the camera thru their capture card to 8-bit uncompressed. And no, you will not be able to see this play in realtime on your monitor via firewire. You’d need a capture card of your own for that. But, if you pause it, you should be able to see it…and get an idea of the color.

Now with the FXI and the component outs, I don’t think you are going to get timecode from that camera…as there is no RS-422 control. So if you ever need to revisit the project you are out of luck there.

But wait until morning to make you decision. Others will chime in with their ideas. Walter is good about this, and he is DA MAN.