Steven Gonzales
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Digibeta is a 29.97 format, so somewhere along the line it was converted, and perhaps incorrectly. It was either converted via software (reverse telecine) or hardware. You should find out the history of the clips to find out what went wrong.
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Though perhaps it’s a little old fashioned now, Lumiere HD uses this approach. I can’t vouch for how accurate the matching back is, but they have a workflow explanation on their website:
https://www.lumierehd.com/workflow.php
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This reminds me of a quote from Charlie Parker.
Parker was probably the most technically proficient saxophone player of his time. When asked what was the most important thing about improvising on a tune, he said it was understanding the lyrics of the song.
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Did you convert this footage from video rate (29.97) to film rate (24 or 23.98 frames per second)? If so, the footage can get “jumpy” if the sequencing of the reverse telecine is not correct.
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Many drive will read that DVD-ram if you remove it from the cartridge. You can look under the apple menu, about this mac, more info and look up your drive model number under hardware.
Then you can search on that model number to see what it’s capabilities are.
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What kind of answer are you looking for? The programs operate differently.
I recommend these books:
Final Cut Pro for Avid Editors by Diana Weynand
Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro by Kevin Monahan -
Paste attributes is what you want. Chapter 14 “Copying and Pasting Clip Attributes”
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To get all the audio at once, you could experiment with editing an EDL.
For example, if only video, the EDL entry will have V at character 15 (CMX EDL format). If you export an EDL, you replace that V with AA/V, and re-import the EDL, the sequence will now have the audio and video.
You could also play with XML to see how the info is coded there.
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I’ve been quite interested in that boundary where we are technically prohibited from doing what we are legally entitled to do (for example, time shifted viewing ever since the Sony Betamax court case).
For those also interested or wondering how to take action, I recommend readings from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. http://www.eff.org .
It’s always good to know what the boundaries of the laws are, to be sure you are obeying them.
“What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.” -Molly Ivins