[Shane Ross]

I mean SD too. Beta, digibeta and DV footage. The fact that your render times are 3 hours as opposed to 8 hours is due to the fact that you are on a G5.

Sapphire and Boris are HEAVY effects plugins.

[Shane Ross]

Use MPEGStreamclip to convert them to DV/NTSC files.

MPEG-2 is not an editable format. It is a presentation format.

[Shane Ross]

[videobiker] “0 of those have the following 4 filters applied: Sapphire Glow, Sapphire grain, BCC Blur, FCP Strobe”

And ONLY a 3 hour render? Boris and Sapphire, especially at high resolutions, take a while to render. I have one Boris transition (custom made) that for the 1 second transition takes 5 min to render.

[Shane Ross]

That IS THRU firewire. It is a camera setting.

[Shane Ross]

Here is the solution that someone found and that I have used successfully several time.

TC to DSR-11

Since FCP 4 we have been unable to stripe a new TC such as 00:58:00:00 or 01:58:00:00 to a DVCAM tape with the DSR-11. NO MORE!! I think I found a solution.

Get SimpleVideoOut from the Apple (its free):

https://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SimpleVideoOut/SimpleVideoOut.html

Then create a QT Movie in FCP or Xpress Pro from a sequence which has the starting TC you want on the tape. I just tried it with 00:58:00:00. In the timeline, I just put Bars & Tone for 90 seconds and a black slug for 45 (to take me over 01:00:00:00). You could create a sequence with whatever combination you wanted with the TC set to start at whatever timecode you need for your choice. But the Timeline TC MUST be set to your desired starting code. The exported QT file will have this TC in it.

Then load this DV QT movie into SimpleVideoOut (having selecting Firewire / Apple Firewire PAL or NTSC when you open the app).

Now load a fresh DVCAM tape and set your DSR-11 to:

REC MODE = DVCAM
DV IN TC = EXTERNAL

(Have the TC display turned on for this first test so you can verify it has worked.)

Then just hold the REC and PLAY buttons together on the DSR-11 and press play in the SimpleVideoOut app and the new TC will be recorded to your DVCAM tape. Hey presto you are now able to stripe a tape with what ever timecode you want using a DSR-11.

Remember to turn ‘DV IN TC’ back to INTERNAL on the DSR-11 when you come to record your edit to tape.

The problem with the DSR-11 is that it is not the best deck and starting recording at the exact TC, but playing with the pre-rolls should eventually get it spot on. I have had some success with FCP’s ‘Edit to Tape’ and very good results with Avid Xpress Pro after a few tweaks.

Also, if you just had a black QT file, you can change the starting TC to suite the tape; i.e. 00:58:00:00 or 02:58:00:00 etc without going back into FCP or Xpress Pro and rendering out another QT. To do this, just use Sebsky Tools to alter the starting TC of the file.
https://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/

[Shane Ross]

HDV cameras usually have a downconvert option built in.

[Shane Ross]

No other way that I know of.

I work on an Avid and miss that ability too. Can’t do something similiar in FCP…although the nest should auto-update if you work on the original cut. Mine always do.

[Shane Ross]

Nesting.

Nest your sequence and you will have one clip. Apply the filter.

[Shane Ross]

CGM LE does this. Google it.

But, there is a filter in Quicktime itself that does this. Export your clip, open it in QT, explore the filters…

[Shane Ross]

itunes will do it, if you set your importing preferences to aiff, 48k 16 bit stereo. Then you can select your MP3s and under the Advances tab convert to aiff.

Or use Quicktime Pro Export…