[Steve Cornell]

None of the footage is SmoothCammed. A lot of the footage was Optical Flowed in Motion.

[Steve Cornell]

Workflow for GH1 Lumix 720 60fps and Sony Z1U 1080 29.9

(1) In FCP, I set the sequence to prores422 1920×1080 29.9
(2)Log & transfer of my GH1 footage shots at 720 60p
(3) Dropped footage into the sequence created at step 1
(4) The sequence changed its settings to match the clip – 1280×720 59.9(oops, don’t want this)
(5) I went back to my sequence settings and changed it back to 1920×1080 29.9,

I had to manually stretch out the clip to fit 1920×1080. Is there a way to automatically resize all the 720 footage in one go ?

[Steve Cornell]

Has anybody tried a program from cineform called ‘neoscene’ ? I read that it can transcode AVCHD files and if you choose the ‘cineform’ output, the filesize is much smaller that ProRes. They offer a free trial so I’ll test that out.

I’m also testing media manager as a way to reduce project size.

You guys are right, I’m going to invest in some bare drives as a way to archive projects.

[Steve Cornell]

Thanks Andy. Any drive docks you recommend ?

[Steve Cornell]

Hi David,
I recently bought a 2 terabyte external drive and its full already with these ProRes jobs. I do weddings videography and can’t really bill brides for storage; I wish I could. I’m not familiar with firewire enclosures but I’ll do some research. Any links to what you use/recommend ?

Any harm in deleting everything in the render files directory ? I”m referring to ‘archived’ projects not projects that I”m currently working on.

Side question: I’ve discovered Motion gradients as a way to do color. Back in FCP, the render times are a killer. I’ve tried sending clips to motion and then applying gradients. I’ve also tried exporting a custom gradient from Motion to FCP and then overlaying that gradient on top of clips . Either way, the slightest change in the timeline and I’ve got a huge render time ahead of me.

thanks.

[Steve Cornell]

Hi David,
That works! What’s I’m still confused about is the various frame rates of the footage I’m working with.

In my FCP project, I have the following assortment of footage

1920 x 1080 29.9fps ProRes422 GH1
1280 x 720 59.94fps ProRes422 GH1
1440 x 1080 29.9fps ProRes422 Z1U

What should my sequence be set to for framerate and dimensions if I’m working with clips from all 3 ? I want the image quality as high as possible.

What I’ve tried already:
Cinema Tools ‘conform’ to change the framerate from 59.9 to 29.9 and the result was slow motion and not what I intended.