[Tom Meegan]

Hoping that I’m not thread jacking here…

Will PAL DVDs play in North American NTSC players? I have a client who does three North American events and seven European events a year.

If I AM thread jacking, I’ll just try it out and report back…

Hi Graeme. I hope you are doing well.

Best,

Tom Meegan

[Tom Meegan]

First a bunch of ifs…

If your tapes are well labeled,
If you always made sure the Reel field in the capture window matched your tape label,
If the time code on the tapes did not have breaks and had adequate pre-roll,
If you noted the any time code or capture strangeness as it occurred for future reference,

Then you will probably be able to use the Media Manager to recapture your edit from tape. Go to Help > Final Cut Pro User Manual and then type Media Manager in the search field, to read up on your options for recapture.

Work on a copy of your project, and back everything up before your start. Media Manager has gotten better in recent releases, but does not have a good reputation. I haven’t used it to recapture an edit for a while, but Media Manager in the past handled nests and speed changes poorly. Perhaps this has improved, but proceed with caution.

Best,

Tom Meegan

[Tom Meegan]

Final Cut sequences refer to the render files for playback once the render has been done.

My thought is that some media files are offline, but the render files are allowing the sequence to play. It is likely, as you guess above, that some files that the sequence refers to have had their paths changed. It is possible to have media files in the sequence that are not in the browser.

Good luck, and take care not to accidentally unrender until you get it sorted out.

Best,

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

You are refering to furniture, correct?

I just purchased a desk from TBC Consoles

[Tom Meegan]

Final Cut Pro>Audio/Video Settings…

Capture Tab

Scroll Down to your current setting, likely DV NTSC 48 Khz. If it is not, you should cancel and then use Final Cut Pro > Easy Setups… to set everything to DV NTSC 48 Khz.

Double click.

This will duplicate the current settings.

Rename this preset you are creatint DV NTSC 32 Khz.

Change the audio capture settings.

Hit OK.

Hit Command – 8 to open the Capture window.

Capture Settings tab.

Confirm that your new preset is selected.

Try capturing again.

A couple of important thoughts…

After you capture, confirm your audio is in sync. Do this on external audio and video monitors. Check both the begining and end of clips, and make adjustments before you start to edit. You do not want to discover this problem after you have begun your edit.

I would recommend that you convert your captured clips to 48 Khz before you start to edit. Here is a related thread…

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/923080?pview=t#head

Best,

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

Change the VCR audio mode to 16 bit.

Any luck?

[Tom Meegan]

As Tom says above no easy short cut.

Here is how to do it if you need to avoid the mouse

[Tom Meegan]

Right click on the 44.1 Khz clip(s) you need to convert.

Choose batch export.

Click settings, and choose the appropriate settings, in this case 48 Khz.

Click destination and choose an appropriate place in your file organization for the new file to be created.

Export.

Delete the clip from the browser. (This will not effect the media referenced by the clip. The 44.1 file will be just where you left it.)

Re-import the new 48 Khz file you’ve created into the browser.

Best,

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

I use a firelite external drive when I am traveling with my laptop and have to edit DVCPRO HD.

https://www.smartdisk.com/eWeb/smartdiskus/www/staticpages/fireliteporthdd.asp

It is 5400rpm. It works fine. It is not an all the time solution, but offers great convenience.

I’ve also edited with DVCPRO HD media on the internal hard drive of the PowerBook (it is a G4, 1.67, 2MB ram.) I don’t recommended, but has worked in a pinch.

I have not tested capturing from tape to the firelite, so I can’t comment on this. If you have a P2 solution, tape capture may not be relevant.

Best,

Tom

[Tom Meegan]

No history palette.

Set your number of undos in Final Cut Pro > User Preferences

It is the parameter on the top right of the General Tab.

You can not zoom to the time line at the bottom of the Viewer.

Zoom to the time line (regardlesss of which window is active) with Option =

Command = zooms on the active window.

It will zoom to whatever is selected. If nothing is selected, it will zoom to the playhead.

Since I usually want to zoom to the play head, I usually precede my Option = with a Command 3 (makes the time line active) Command Shift A (deselects all.)

It is frustrating to move from one tool to another. Good luck with the adjustment

Best,

Tom