Shane Ross
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Nont much network episodic (stuff like West Wing and CSI) is being done other than SCRUBS and NIP/TUCK. It is HUGE on cable networks like MTV and VH1 (Bunim Murray, which does THE REAL WORLD, has some 100 FCP setups, although about half are used by actual editors) and HTGV and the Food Network…The History Channel has some shows done with FCP. Oh, and SHOWTIME series are almost all done with FCP and have been for several years (since FCP 3 was released). Commercials, Music Videos, and nearly ALL Theatrical movie trailers are FCP.
But the bulk of network TV is still using AVID, and will for quite some time. Because the companies that edit them, or the post houses they go to already have their money invested in them, and they work. Why change if it works? And money isn’t too much of an issue on shows like that. On cable where budgets are thin is where you find the bulk of FCP systems in use.
I can only name 2 big time features using FCP…and both cut by Walter Murch. JARHEAD and COLD MOUNTAIN. Again, because companies are invested in their Avid, or use companies that have all Avid systems, and they work gangbusters, why change?
It took a loooooong time for Avid to be accepted. Because what was in place worked. But back then editing on a computer was a new thing, and a whole new world was opened up. Now, it is just another product that has hit the street…so FCP has a tougher battle in Hollywood. But where it is winning is the corporate, wedding and event worlds. Where Media 100 and Premiere Pro were king, FCP is making huge advances.
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24P runs at 29.97fps. It has a cadence that makes it look more film-like, but it runs at the normal NTSC tape rate. It is 24PA that records 23.98 onto a tape at 29.97 using a 3:2 pulldown.
Shane’s Stock Answer #23
Quoting Ken Stone’s site found at:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
24p Normal
When shooting in 24p Normal, the camera is adding normal standard 3:2 pulldown to the video, which results in 24p footage designed to work with any non-linear editing suite and it will play back and look good directly to any NTSC monitor. You can use 24p Normal footage just like normal video from any DV camera, and everything will work fine, but obviously, the footage will have a film look to it. If you -
After you capture the anamorphic footage, scroll to the right in the browser and under the ANAMORPHIC column, check each clip.
BOOM. They will go to the proper aspect ratio…
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No…there isn’t.
That is why at the company I work at, we all label the cut with our intials, and the date we worked on it:
BOMBERS ACT 3 v1 – 8/14 – STR
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Sorry. Need at least FW 800 drives for this. Or external SATA arrays.
You could capture the footage…convert it to DV, edit that, then relink to the DVCPRO HD master footage later. I hear that some people do that. I don’t have any firsthand experience myself…
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Look at the Standards Converter v2 at http://www.nattress.com. It might be able to convert the 24P to 24PA.
$100.
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FCP is not the best for this. I would even venture to say that it would be one of the worse choices for this.
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Look at this, and judge the quality on an external monitor or TV…NOT your computer screen. Connect a camera to your computer, and then the TV to the camera.
Shane’s Stock Answer #2:
1. Disable overlays on the canvas
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline
3. Upgrade to 10.3.8 (many people had this crop up when they upgraded to 10.3.5)https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24787
DV footage requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or NTSC monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
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THEN see what is happening.
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Are you trying to make this 57 minute video something that you play on your home DVD player? What DVD burnig software are you using?
If iDVD, then export your sequence EXACTLY as you have been, Quicktime Movie, self contained. That this does is make a lossless DV/NTSV QT clip of your show…since DV footage is about 13 Gig per hour. Then import that into iDVD and it will convert it to mpeg-2 and make it a viewable DVD.
If you are using DVD Studio Pro, Export from FCP using Compressor and one of the mpeg-2 export options. Then when you burn it with DVD SP, it ALSO will make a viewable DVD.
YOu can’t make a DVD that is viewable on a home player by dragging the file onto the DVD and burning it. That is what is called a DATA DVD.