Stephan Walfridsson
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It depends on what you are ultimately aiming for. If you intend to export your edit as a small (lets say 640×360) quicktime then you can edit in a timeline with the correct dimensions. That way your tiny clip would only have to be doubled in size.
But if you need a full HD 1920×1080 export then you will have to live with the fact that each pixel from your tiny source has been blown up to cover around 25 pixels in the HD image. And if your source was highy compressed to start with then you may be suffering from compression artifacts as well.
What you can try is to use a higher quality resizing algorithm when scaling the clip. Change the resize filter setting in the Frame Controls in Compressor when converting the clip.
/Stephan
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The standard workflow to create a 25fps PAL version of a 24fps original is to speed it up 4% so that you have a 1:1 frame correlation. (Which of course is what cinema tools does). Audio may or may not be pitch corrected.
So if that’s what you’re asking then the answer is that you are absolutely fine, it’s the preferred way of doing it.Stephan
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Try selecting all your clips in the timeline, right click (ctrl-click) and choose ‘Remove attributes’. Make sure Distort and Basic Motion are checked (if not greyed out) and click OK.
You will loose all scale and positioning you have done to the clips but it should correct your footage.
Stephan
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Are you asking if your ‘muted’ clips will affect the total filesize of your final export of the programme? If so then the answer is no. They may affect render time but the difference would be minimal. Why not just disable the audio clips or just mute the tracks where your original audio is.
Regarding export all your audio tracks are (normally) mixed down when exporting. So in theory it doesn’t matter if you have 49 loud clips stacked on top of each other or 49 totally silent clips. The number of samples in you master file will be constant. (I’m obviously disregarding any type of audio compression.)
But why not make a test for yourself. Export once, remove the silent clips and export again, compare the filesizes… That way you will now for sure.
/Stephan
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You are of course absolutely right Shane.
(I keep forgetting MOTU as well. I knew there was something using FW800 but it took me some googling to remember the name of the manufacturer. It was on the tip of my tounge but I just couldn’t recall “Mark Of The Unicorn”.)
/Stephan
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There is the MOTU V4HD but it’s in the same price range. If you just need monitoring perhaps the Matrox MXO is an option.
/Stephan
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[Sam Knaak] “I tried linking (o-apple L) them”
Linking the clips works for me. I can link the audio and video in the timeline and then drag them to the browser to create a new clip with audio and video combined.
Am I misunderstanding what you try to achieve…?
(Or use ‘Merge Clips’. But you do that in the browser not in the timeline: Mark an in point on the video clip and corresponding in points on your audio clips. Select all clips that belong together and choose ‘Merge Clips…’ in the Modify menu.)
/Stephan
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Qmaster will not ‘help’ FCP in. It can make a difference for Compressor. But it is notoriously difficult to get qmaster to work across multiple computers and even if you get it to work it may not give you any real life benefit as the overhead of transferring the frames may be bigger than the increase in processing speed.
/Stephan
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Open your 50fps clips in Cinematools and use the Conform option to change the speed to 25fps.
/Stephan
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No, XML is a pure text format. Here is the complete documentation for FCP’s XML files:
/Stephan