[Shayne Weyker]

The capture drive is around 30-40% full. I got really tired of the “frames were dropped” popups when playing through clips with unrendered effects. So I turned dropped frames warnings off. Why isn’t having “abort capture on in case of dropped frames” on enough to prevent a capture with dropped frames from happening?

And what’s this I hear on the Apple FCP forum about Capture Now being unreliable with TC material? Any one else believe that?

–Shayne Weyker

[Shayne Weyker]

Capture drive is a raid 0 pair inside the computer (matched hitachi 500GBs)

Abort capture on drapped frames was on.

Report dropped frames on playback was off, but I don’t see why that would affect capture or why it would cause the sudden loss of audio followed by a 13 frame shift.

–Shayne

–Shayne Weyker

[Shayne Weyker]

Getting closer.

Re: the one sequence per interview: Is there a simple way to take one in-to-out from the master sequence timeline and make that a new sequence? Can that in-to-out include cuts or must it be a continuous single clip?
I can put the bumpers in each short sequences I guess.

Re: one subclip per interview approach: the interviews would be captured from multiple tapes, would that cause the auto-numbering to reset? Is there a workaround? I’m not concerned about being able to recapture later so using one reel # for all the tapes would be okay if FCP would let me.

–Shayne Weyker

[Shayne Weyker]

Re: setting the in and out, I was thinking there might be a applescript/automator-able way to make the CTI jump to the start of the next clip in the timeline that matches a certain property (the title of the bumper graphic).

If I could do that then there could a macro/script that would do something like

begin loop
set in point
move CTI to start of next bump
move CTI to next cut
set out point
export QT ref with filename = loop’s count # to a set folder
repeat until loop count = number of interviews

which should work if the CTI started at the start of the bump for the first interview.

–Shayne

[Shayne Weyker]

TC reader effect doesn’t have an offset. While TC generator does, it seems to want to restart the TC at 0 with each clip. I want the TC from the source tape to be used. I just want to be able to offset some of the cips by an hour to make their TC unique.

Is this possible?

[Shayne Weyker]

Thanks for all the advice. I’m definitely not buying anyting until I need it.

It seems like SD project might look better than DV in the end on a big HDTV, even going through DVD, and an SD card might be in budget and something I’d use sooner rather than later.

Does anyone know of a pci-e card or a box that offers analog SD in and/out for $600 or less? Though I’d also need a way to adapt it to composite-out for now.

–Shayne

[Shayne Weyker]

Yeah I recently picked up a mac and Final Cut Suite and was looking for the mac equivalent of DVD Decrypter, not for the decrypting part but because it is the absolute best way of burning DVDs on a PC. You just have to give it an ISO disk image to work with.

So can other folks confirm that DVDSP->disk image->DVD is better than DVDSP->DVD?

Anyone have an opinion about whether Toast or Finder is better at burning disk images?

–Shayne

[Shayne Weyker]

I have a two screen wide desktop and have played hi-res QT files that span between videos. Does that indicate I’ve set the sysytem display prefs as much as I need to?

But when I tell it do do two screen editing format it uses only one for the timeline and it won’t let me span it.

Also possibly relevant, my left monitor is DVI and my right one is VGA using a DVI to VGA adapter.

–Shayne

[Shayne Weyker]

Hi.

I have Premiere Pro 1.0 and a cannon GL2. I want to eventally get used to shooting stuff in 30p frame mode when I know its destined for the web so I can save on the deinterlacing when encoding to WMV/MOV/FLV.

So I wanted to try capturing some footage shot in the GL2 Frame mode.

I set up a Video for Windows project, 30 fps, no field first/progressive, 30fps timecode.

And then captured manually after I start playing the tape.

But what I read above in this chain seems to say should I just set up the project and capture like it was plain NTSC-DV. Is that the right way?

And when I’m done what’s the best format to export in to set up for web encoding? Uncompressed AVI?

Thanks,

–Shayne Weyker

[Shayne Weyker]

You might also look for a copy of the “Premiere Pro Classroom In A Book” published around 2003 since it was written back when PP1.0 came out and parts of it are easier to follow (especially the audio section) than the real manual.

–Shayne