[Steven Gonzales]

Great news to hear another Murch DVD is on the way.

I purchased the older DVD where Murch talked about “Cold Mountain” and I’ve used it in my teaching, and it really was a hit with the film students. Several editors adopted his “scene card” idea after viewing the DVD.

LAFCPUG is a great asset, even to those of us that don’t live in LA.

[Steven Gonzales]

Select the Browser window, create a new bin (folder) and open it, then under the File menu select Import, then Batch List at 29.97 fps (the fps will be set at whatever your default sequence present timebase is set to). Then point to the file, and it will import.

If you haven’t selected a browser window as the active window, import batch list will be grayed out.

[Steven Gonzales]

I have heard great things about the Golden Ears audio ear training course. This is a long term aid, of course, but this will train your receptors to help you catch the subtle differences that the pros know about.

https://www.moultonlabs.com/gold.htm

From the web page:

Golden Ears will teach you:

to recognize the effect of compression on a variety of different signals
to identify fast and slow compressor release times
to hear musically relevant equalization problems
to recognize when loudness is the only difference between two signals
to distinguish ranges of 1 – 10% and 10 – 30% Total Harmonic Distortion in musical examples
to recognize anomalies in the stereo image (reverse image, mono summation, polarity reversal, pseudo-stereo etc.)
to identify channel-to-channel time differences over the 1 – 50ms range
to recognize gated and ungated reverb and
much, much more, including 1/3 octave changes and double octave cuts and boosts

[Steven Gonzales]

You can bring the ALE into Cinema Tools, and then export it back out of Cinema Tools as a Final Cut Pro batch list.

[Steven Gonzales]

Thanks for the info. This is great news, as BWF Manager was barely adequate.

[Steven Gonzales]

I had some files from a DEVA that were poly format BWF, and Sebsky tools wouldn’t handle them.

I found a free utility BWF Manager from Fostex, which could strip out the tracks, and then I could use Sebsky to convert them to quicktime.

https://www.fostexdvd.net/fxdvd_route/docs/techsup/bwf_manager_1.htm

[Steven Gonzales]

There was a DSR-1500, which offered the firewire card as an option, and the later model the DSR-1500A, which made that option standard.

If you don’t have the firewire card and you have the old model, perhaps you can’t control vis firewire until you add the optional card.

If you have the firewire option, then you can definitely use firewire for machine control. It’s under SETUP MENU, then INTERFACE SELECT, then REMOTE I/F, then select i.LINK.

[Steven Gonzales]

Would it work for you to toggle clip keyframes, which reveals blue or green bars under the video track which indicate whether a filter or motion effect has been applied?

Perhaps an examination while zoomed in on the timeline would reveal all the shots that have been flopped or enlarged.

I have also used copy and pasting all the clips from one timeline to another, forcing any effects to unrender (I guess you could clear render files to do the same thing) so that any manipulated shot gets a red render bar over it.

Granted, these are still manual processes, but perhaps they can help.

Another option would be to place all flops and blowups on their own video track when you create them. Then Cinema Tools could at least flag the holes left behind.

[Steven Gonzales]

G Cadence Detect is a tool to help decide which reverse telecine pattern to use in Cinema Tools. The plug-in is located in the free area of the nattress website:

https://www.nattress.com/free.htm.

I’m not sure if there are instructions there, but Graeme posted them here at this thread:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=8&postid=833858

Good luck.

[Steven Gonzales]

There’s a useful article at the Editor’s Guild website with various conversions. This could easily be put in Excel as a formula for easy access when needed (heck, I guess someone could easily create a dashboard widget). https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JanFeb03/tip_math.html

The one for non-drop frame to drop frame conversion is this:

12. Convert non-drop frame timecode to drop frame timecode:

Drop frame timecode adds 2 frames every minute, but not when the minute ends in 0 (minute 10, 20, 30, etc.).

Ignore hours.
Multiply minutes by 2
Take the left-most integer of the original minutes column and multiply by 2.
Subtract (c) from (b).
Add the result, in frames, to the non-drop frame value.
Convert frames to seconds, as needed (30 frames = 1 second).

Example: Convert 07:32:56:27 non-drop to drop frame timecode

Double the minutes: 32 x 2 = 64
Double the left-most minutes integer: 3 x 2 = 6
Subtract: 64 – 6 = 58
Add the result to the frames column: 27 + 58 = 85
Convert to seconds: 85 / 30 = 2 with a remainder of 25, or 2 seconds 25 frames.

The answer is 07;32;58;25