[Steven Gonzales]

https://www.fxscriptreference.org/

If you want to get someone to write it for you, maybe

http://www.nattress.com

[Steven Gonzales]

Here’s another BWF utility program which might be helpful.

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

[Steven Gonzales]

Here’s a basic primer on Cinema Tools:

https://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/JanFeb03/tip_cinema_tools.html

If you edited at 29.97 from a telecine to Beta SP and then made a DVD, I don’t know why you had such stuttery motion.

How did you get the footage on to the machine? Perhaps you have a field dominance issue?

Maybe a little more info on your process would help. If you take 29.97 (even if originated on film) into final cut, edit at 29.97 and then make a DVD, you shouldn’t really see any more stutter than was on the original video tape.

[Steven Gonzales]

1) Do I really need to edit in a 24fps timeline if the HDCAM master has already been pulled down from 24fps to 30? Can’t I edit in a 29.97 timeline to match the HDCAM master once it goes back to online?

If you are going to online from HDCAM master, and that master is 29.97, I think you should edit at that rate. Are you finishing in HDCAM or are you finishing on film, or are you doing one now and another later? Is your HDCAM at 24 or at 60i?

2) Is it possible to create a 24fps cut list for the negative cutter in cinema tools if I edited in a 29.97 timeline in FCP?

You can create a cut list from a 29.97 edit. The process is known as matchback, and the computer will make an attempt to get the list as accurate as possible. Since some video frames may contain information from two different film frames, matchback is considered accurate to + or – one frame per cut.

You can also edit at 29.97, then later convert the clips to 24, use cinema tools to convert the EDL from 29.97 to 24, reconnect the new 24 fps sequence to the newly converted clips, and then check everything to see if it is okay. I haven’t tried this process, but theoretically it should work??

3) I’ve tried to convert the footage in cinema tools to 24fps and 23.98 after I digitize but when I play back in 23.98 in fcp, i keep getting this weird jerky effect. Is that normal? Are my settings wrong?

If the reverse telecine to 24 is not done correctly, you will have two frames from one original film frame, and another original film frame will be missing. Perhaps this is what you are seeing. If you single frame through the clip, you should see the A B C D sequence from the film burn in to indicate all frames are there. If you see A B B D, you will have to reconvert that clip, changing the settings in cinema tools.

4) Can I use the advanced pulldown setting when I digitize my footage? I’ve tried it but it doesn’t seem to work. Is that only good for the Panasonic 24p camera?

Advanced pulldown is only for the Panasonic 24P camera, which records 23.98 frames within a 29.97 frame recording mechanism.

5) My other option has been to use my Aurora Igniter card but I keep getting the same results with the jerky effect. Is anyone out there using an igniter card that has used a telecined tape to edit a 24fps timeline and been successful?

I’ve used the Igniter card successfully, but not from a HDCAM telecine transferred to DVCAM. And I haven’t used it in the last couple years, preferring the software reverse telecine.

6) Lastly, is there any recent documentation that explains the workflow from 16mm or 35mm transfered to HDCAM and edited in final cut pro?

not sure about that

[Steven Gonzales]

A lot of people swear by Carbon Copy Cloner, though I haven’t tried it:

https://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

[Steven Gonzales]

Here’s a reference on the media manager, if you can spare $20.

https://www.intelligentassistance.com/FinalCutPro/MasteringMediaManager.html

[Steven Gonzales]

Sorry I put ‘ embed ‘ in my above message, and it was read as an embed tag. The missing word is embed (such as “I should embed a little common sense between my ears”).

[Steven Gonzales]

Basically, I believe you need to use the tag (which triggers the quicktime player from the browser), and set kioskmode to “true” or “yes”.

Here’s a link at Apple which might help.

https://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/embed.html

[Steven Gonzales]

I can’t take much credit, as I posted the same thing several years ago, and Lisa Brenneis (author of the Visual QuickPro Guides for FCP) told me this trick.

I feel I’m obligated to pass along all the generous help I’ve been given.

Another mantra she signed in my copy of her book for FCP 1.0 “Don’t Forget to Save often!”

[Steven Gonzales]

Control-v will place an add edit (cut point) in the auto selected clip.

Check here for more info on auto select:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/auto_select_fcp_4_balis.html