Todd Beabout
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Look at the clips in your bin and scroll over to the “Anamorphic” column. If it is not checked, then click it. After this when you put your clip into the timeline, it should be anamorphic and scale properly.
-Todd Beabout
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From FCP goto your “File” menu (top right of screen) and select Export>Using QuickTime Compression. From there you will have many options as to how to encode. I personally like to use Sorenson 3.
-Todd Beabout
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You should create a new non-anamorphic sequence, then drop your anamorphic sequence into that. This should give you a 4:3 Letterboxed video both in the Canvas, and on your broadcast monitor.
-Todd Beabout
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I don’t have any experience with Jaleo, but at my facility we have a Smoke/Flame running on a SGI Octane. We also have strange problems with uncompressed QuickTimes coming off that box, and for that reason we have the Smoke artist kick out .tiff sequences to give to other editors/compositors. This is the reason that I suggested the image sequence; from there you should be able to create whatever flavor of movie that works best with your system. Of course you will want the image sequence to be uncompressed coming from Jaleo.
I noticed that you are from Malaysia. Very cool! I love the internet.
Good luck to you!
-Todd Beabout
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A workaround would be to export an image sequence from your SGI box, then open that in QuickTime and export a movie from there with settings that match your FCP project. Hope that helps!
-Todd Beabout
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Hmmm… the only other thing that I can thing of is going to involve some of those wonderful in-camera menus that Sony likes so much. The camera has the ability to down-convert to DV on the fly, and that setting is most likely turned on.
I wish that I could remember more from memory about the camera’s menus, but I do remember that above where you plug in the firewire cable (iLink) there are 2 blue lights, one for DV and one for HDV. Obviously the HDV light should be on, so that is one way that you can check.
-Todd Beabout
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Be sure to change your Easy Setup (in the menu under Final Cut Pro – top left of your screen) to HDV 1080i/60. After that when you open log and capture you should see the camera, and you might notice a very slightly different looking capture window.
That should get you.
-Todd Beabout
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Hi Jerry,
I had posted the following in the DVDSP forum that describes my problem:
“OK, now I am having the exact same problem here. First of all I am encoding with Compressor (CBR 6.5) which I have used for about the past three years. So when I go into DVDSP, my assets are already encoded. Very early in the build process it will error out saying “Video Bitrate too high.” in the log. I have DVDSP prefs set to encode at 5.0 One-pass just to try to get around the problem (I think DVDSP is still encoding my transitions) and even with that low bit-rate, and NO audio, it is erroring out.
This is only happening on my system here, the other 3 seem to still work.
Can someone give me the path to where I can delete my DVDSP prefs? I have deleted the .plist one but the problem remains.”
I’m hoping that updating will work this out. The system I’m on is only 6 months old or so.
Thanks for your help!
-Todd Beabout
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I believe it is set up with no journaling, but I will double-check. I’m trying to replicate the problem again so that I can call up Facillis tech support and see if they have any suggestions. (I have found their tech support to be some of the best I’ve ever experienced.)
Yesterday several editors captured a bunch of footage, and we haven’t seen the problem crop up. Very curious. These intermittent problems are the hardest to track down.
-Todd Beabout
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[reel2reel] “Sounds like user error somewhere in the mix. I work on many different machines and have *never* had this problem.”
You could be right of course. The weird thing is, how could the user have a clip actually capture during the batch, then the timecode info disappears. It had to be there originally for FPC to find the actual start timecode. And as I said before, by opening up earlier versions of the project I can find the correct timecode still there. At some point it just goes to zero. Very strange, but I will admit that we have 2 editors that just switched to FCP from Avid Symphony and I have no idea what they could be doing over there. I’ve been a FCP user since version 3 in 2001 and I also have *never* had this problem until the last month or so, after we added the Terrablock and started sharing projects. I’m thinking it must be something to do with that, but I was really just wondering if this problem was happening elsewhere, so I could rule some things out in my troubleshooting.
Anyways, thanks for your time!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios