Todd Beabout
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Hey Ben,
Thanks for the reply. It appears the browser does keep the original tape timecode (in & out) for each clip, on or off-line. For my corrupt clips, the QuickTime itself also has a start timecode of 00:00:00:00 and an out point that matches the duration. It’s like the metadata has somehow been lost and FCP defaults to zeros.
The other weird thing is that the files I’m talking about are not from the same project, but from different projects on different computers. I’m working on a project today where I logged and captured clips last week. They are still online, but 2 of them (out of 100 or so) are having this problem. Now, it’s not really a problem for me at the moment, but one of my co-workers just batch captured a lot of footage but forgot to have the Audio checked to record. I went to help him re-capture them all, and about 4 of his showed bogus timecode. We were actually able to create an interim project that we copied the originally logged clips into (by opening up an autosave version from the day before) and their timecode was intact. Very strange.
I will try trashing prefs all around again, but I have done that since discovering this problem. The only newer piece of equipment that we have around here is a Terrablock shared storage setup (24D 7TB) and 2 FCP suites. All 3 suites we own seem to be experiencing this at random. I wonder if it could somehow be Terrablock related, though I don’t see how.
Thanks again for your time!
-Todd Beabout
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OK, some quick general advice.
First pick what format you want to work with. If you really want to go all-out, go ahead and choose HD. I wouldn’t recommend HDV, probably DVCProHD would work best. Buy a capture card, or otherwise figure out how to bring in your HDV footage as DVCProHD.
Now, just edit it. Throw your stills into the DVCProHD timeline and work on them. Export any Flash or whatever other graphics you create at matching specs to your DVCProHD timeline so that you end up with QuickTime .mov files (not some kind of Flash file) that you can drop into your sequence. Get all your materials into the project, then cut them together on the timeline until it is the way you want it.
Finally, output it. If it is for web, then just export a QuickTime movie and compress with whatever flavor you choose. For DVD, encode using Compressor (or your favorite MPEG encoder) and burn a DVD. (There are some options for creating widescreen DVDs from within DVDSP, but you can search that forum for more info there.) If you are needing a 4:3 “square” full-screen version, no problem. Drag your completed HD Sequence from your Bin into a 4:3 Timeline. Then render and you will have “down-converted” from HD Widescreen to SD 4:3 Fullscreen.
From your post, it sounds like you are doing too much importing and exporting. Keep it simple: do it HD if you really must, then just downconvert for the SD version.
If you are really just going to the web with this, then HD is probably WAY overkill. But if there is ANY chance that you will want this in High Definition, then go ahead and do it that way from the beginning. You will need to look into a Kona or Blackmagic card that supports HD, and your sequence settings will be based on what card/format/codec you end up buying into.
Hope this helps!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Be sure to “Render All” before playing back. If you see a green bar above the timeline, then FCP is playing it back realtime, but quality of playback is suffering to give you that realtime. Not to worry, when you are ready to Edit to Tape it will render for you even if you forget. So try the Render All (if you haven’t already) and see how it looks after that.
If you have already rendered, then we are looking at a different problem altogether. It would be best to rule that out first though.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
[David Roth Weiss] “To export OMFs from FCP you need Automatic Duck Pro Export”
Hey David, are you sure about that? The reason I ask is that I export OMFs nearly every day without using the Duck. I just go to File>Export>Audio to OMF and then I get prompted for the audio settings, handle lengths, and where I want the file to go. Or are you saying that in order to import the OMF back into FCP, it needs to be exported using Automatic Duck?
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Hmmm… not really sure about importing them into an Avid. We usually send OMFs to our audio post-house, and they use Pro Tools. They do not have any problems using the OMFs from FCP, but that is all I can verify. We haven’t tried to bring OMFs into our Avids here. And I don’t have any first-hand experience with the Automatic Duck plug in, so it’s good to know that they can import an OMF into FCP. That could come in handy at some point!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
From your timeline go to File>Export>QuickTime Movie. You can leave “Make Move Self-Contained” unchecked and that will create a “Reference Movie” that will basically point AE to your captured movies or render files without having to make another complete copy of the material. If you are using AE on the same computer as your FCP then this option should be fine. Simply import that reference movie into AE and go to town. If you run into some problems, try the self-contained option. Good luck!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
[Zeliha] “Does this mean final cut doesn’t import OMF files”
That is correct, FCP will not import OMFs.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Hi Walter.
Is there a way to bring HDV in as DVCProHD through FireWire? Our camera is out on a shoot right now or I’d just try it. The boss has not broken down and bought a HDV deck yet, so FireWire is the only option we are left with ATM. I assume if we had a deck we could just bring it in DVCProHD through SDI and my Kona card, but without the deck… Would you recommend transcoding the source material throught Compressor?
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Make sure you have a .mov extension at the end of the movie file. If you can play the file in QuickTime on your PC, Cleaner should be able to handle it.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Yes, if you notice on the “Edit to Tape” window (lower right) there is a symbol that looks like a film frame. It should be yellow, which means that you are inserting video. Clicking it will toggle it on and off. On the right of that is the audio insert tab, which will allow you to select which channels of audio you want to insert.
Hope that helps!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios