Shane Ross
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You can’t.
Shane’s Stock Answer #25 – HDV external Monitor ViewingTo view HDV on an external monitor you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink offers. They have this to say:
“Blackmagic DeckLink v5.0 includes a host of new features including full support for all the new features in Final Cut Pro HD
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Transfer the footage to DV instead of using the camera as a bridge, and see if that doesn’t help..
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I will be editing a documentary…a 2 hour History Channel show…on FCP. Why FCP? I find it faster in many respects, has better visual capabilities. Plus it can edit and output 720P HD footage. I am currently on a National Geographic series that is also shooting varicam 720p, and the Avid Adrenaline Symphony…no matter how hard it tries, cannot output 720p frame accurately. No way, no how. The solution? Capture and online 1080i and then dub down. Not the best workflow to retain a decent image.
[d.z.gilad] “Let’s say I have 40 hours of footage. How can I find a good shot most efficiently? Is it by individually clicking on a tiny clip icon, then viewing that clip, then repeating this process 800 times for the other clips in my bin?
Organization. Not only have your footage in tape bins, but also content bins. Need city b-roll, look in the CITY B-ROLL bin. Need an interview byte from Dr. Bob, look in the DR. BOB INTERVEW bin. B-roll of the kids on the playground…look in the bin called PLAYGROUND. You take all the tape footage, look at it, organize it. This is not only smart, but gets you more familiar with your footage. To be fair I also do the timeline thing, but by content. ALL JERUSALEM B-ROLL, ALL TURKEY B-ROLL. RUINS. By section.
[d.z.gilad] “t more efficient to string all those clips together into a 40 hour timeline which I can scrub or fast forward through, edit directly into my sequence”
String you footage sequence together and load it into the viewer. No problem there.
[d.z.gilad] “d add markers wherever I see something that I like?”
FCP has markers. They aren’t as easy to use or remove like Avid, but they are there.
[d.z.gilad] ” Why on earth would I want a platform that limits my strings to 12 hours, when I can have one which doesn’t?”
Then edit on an Avid. What is stopping you?
[d.z.gilad] “Why would I want to be forced to cut and paste between sequences, without even a shortcut for moving between them, when with Avid I can simply edit straight from one to the other?”
Well, you can either put it in the VIEWER and cut it in, or type TTTT (“T” four times) and click on the clip right in front of the spot you want to insert the footage. This highlights everything from that point down to thened of the timeline…then just move it, press A, put your playhead where you want to paste and PASTE. What would you do in Avid? Highlight it, put it in the clipboard or sub clip it, load it into the Preview monitor and then cut it in, right? They both accomplish the same thing. You just need to get used to a new workflow.
[d.z.gilad] ” How do YOU go through gobs (i.e., >12 hours) of footage?”
I just said that. Organization. Without it you are struggling. If you don’t have the time, hire an assistant. If you don’t have the money, then you have to do it yourself and it will take longer…and in the long run cost more money (you are more expensive than an assistant.
Now for the other questions…I won’t know the answers to all of them:
“1. relinking to media of diff resolution based on reel and timecode:”
Don’t have different resolutions. Choose one and use that. Mixing resolutions means that you will have to render one. Avid solves this by converting it to the resolution of the project. While it does this automatically, you will have to do it manually. If you are working offline RT and you assistant captured at DV quality…have them re-capture. Assistants mess up…make them fix it.
“2. total running time of a group of clips.”
Mark in at the head….go to the end, mark out. Look at the duration. Or am I missing something here?
“4. project size and time to open”
Your Avid projects don’t get HUGE? How do you manage that? Mine get plenty huge and start taking a bit to open. Faster computer and more RAM helps.
“5B. seq in viewer On Avid you can load a sequence in the viewer”
You can do this in FCP too.
“Moving around timeline is a slow, painful process. When I zoom in, it doesn’t automatically center on the playhead”
Go into the custom settings and map your keys. I did that and it does zoom to where my playhead is. I mapped the zoom function to the same keys that the Avid has them mapped to.
OH god this is taking a long time. ANd I have laundry to fold. Maybe someone else can pick up where I left off.
The thing is the answers are there. You just need to get into FCP mode and out of AVID mode.
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How are you getting it from the VHS into your system?
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Well said Debe.
Yeah, trying to make one NLW behave exactly like another is an imposibility. They simply do not have the same way of doing things. If they did, then one would get sued by the other and the copy-cat would die a ligiteous (is that a word?) death.
Get your mind out of the Avid world…and into the FCP world. Every time I switch from Avid (Certified 1995) to FCP (self taught, no certification) I have to switch gears and re-plot my thinking.
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A G-RAID firewire 800 drive is a great choice. you can use it for DVCAM, DVCPRO 50, DVCPRO 100, Uncompressed 8-bit…and sometimes uncompressed 10-bit.
A SATA Raid is also a great choice. the thing I like about the G-Raids is that, if my machine goes down for any reason, I just take the drives to another machine and continue to edit. No removing a card, asking permission to install the card (needed for external SATA) in the new computer, installing software…etc.
BUT…it depends on your needs. Both are great, but the External SATA will get you better performance.
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What are your issues? Maybe we can work them out so that you don’t have to go thru the headache of trying to convert.
Avid and FCP capture media in ENTIRELY different ways, so I don’t know if it will be possible, especially if your media is to be the full online quality. Automatic Duck will convert the EDL’s rather nicely, and Sebsky’s tools the bins, but I am not sure about the media.
How can We help you finish this on FCP?
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Go to this site: https://www.proapptips.com/ sign up (it’s free, no spam…I am one of the Mods) and click on the link in the far upper right corner MY DOWNLOADS. Links to a dozen or so plugins, from free to mega $$$$.
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8-bit…21mb per sec.
10-bit…28mb per sec.
Less compression with 10-bit, but mostly 8-bit uncompressed is very acceptable to broadcasters.
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How are you exporting? What capture card?