[Steve Eisen]

Most common problem. Here is the fix.
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Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Final Cut Studio and Sony XDCAM HD Tour at Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont August 1.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

FCP keyboard is fully customizable. Search for Keyboard layout.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

And to answer the original question, you can capture DV 25, DVC Pro 50, and DVC Pro HD (100) over firewire.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Your quality will not be any better. It is only as good as your original.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Connect your camera/deck to VHS deck. Your camera/deck should be able to display timecode to your VHS deck.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

If I were editing HDV, I would capture as DVCPro HD.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Control Click iDVD Application, Select Show Package Contents. Double click Contents. Double Click Resourses. Control Click the theme you want. Select Show Package Contents. Double click Contents. Double click Resourses.

[Steve Eisen]

That is very normal for your project size. You have to be very patient. The project will open eventually. It could take 5 minutes or more to open.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

TIP/TRICK O THE WEEK
This weeks Tip/Trick comes from Clay Coleman. Its of particular
interest to Sony DSR 11 owners

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DSR-11 Trick to get exact Timeline TC onto the Deck:
Normally, FCP does not generate Time Code, and according to the manual,
a Sony DSR-11 can’t read frame exact TC off of an FCP sequence. This is
a work-around I discovered recently that will give you frame exact TC
from FCP onto a DSR-11 deck (neither of which can read the manuals!)

This assumes the DSR-11 is connected to your Mac via Firewire, and you
are playing out to the deck in Firewire mode. FCP of course has to be set
to Firewire in the external video setup. I’ve been editing in RTMatrox
for the rendering advantages, and then switching to Firewire for playout.
Works just fine. Here we go:

1. Load a tape.

2. Set the DSR-11 to DVCam mode and to External Time Code. Use the remote control.
It’s all there in the menu settings.

3. Make a duplicate of the sequence you want to play out to tape.

4. Using the sequence settings window, reset the starting TC for you duplicated sequence back 24 frames.
For example, if the starting
TC is 10:00:00:00, then the new starting TC should be set to 09:59:59:01 (talking PAL here for the moment).

5. Set an in point at the beginning of the sequence,
and an out point at the end.

6. Then proceed with the Print to Video command, using no counters or leaders
(edit this stuff into the sequence first). Now Print to Video using the “In to Out” option.

7. When FCP is done with any necessary preparatory rendering (i.e. audio),
it tells you to start the deck and press OK.

8. Put the deck into record and wait about 5 secs.

9. Press OK.

The DSR-11 will then start recording your sequence with exact TC. If you
have a video monitor connected, use the display button on the remote
control, and you will see the TC jump to your sequence TC at the beginning
of recording. When recording is finished, check results, and you’ll find
that you have TC on tape exactly as your sequence TC. I used this recently
on a very long sequence (90 Mins.), and the TC stayed accurate all the way through.

The above is very, very useful if you have to provide a post house or
broadcaster with a frame accurate playout. It also saves a bundle if you
thought that you’d have to buy a far more expensive deck to handle what is
actually a very simple operation. It could just be that it works with other
decks or cameras that have an external TC option in the setup menus.

Thanks to Larry Jordan for his help on this. In a recent email he said that
he was going to try and duplicate the process in NTSC. Haven’t heard if he
was successful. It seems that it would just be a matter of determining the
correct offset (i.e. -24 frames in PAL, I’m thinking -29 Frames in NTSC).
Thanks also to Chris in the U.K. who originally claimed that it should
somehow be possible, which gave me the impetus to try and solve this one.

Best,
Clay Coleman

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group