Tony Silanskas
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A couple of options:
-You could keyframe certain attributes in the color corrector to compensate for the exposure change
-You could splice your clips where each excessive exposure change happens and individually color correct each section and just do a cross fade to each
tony
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There’s a chance your render files are corrupt. Try deleting your render files, re-rendering and see if that helps.
tony
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I second the XDCAM problems. Search a little more around here and you’ll see similar threads like the one you were referencing. It seems that it is mostly with the XDCAM EX format (like from an Sony EX3) with Final Cut on Snow Leopard. Had to cut a 30min show last year with footage from an EX3 and literally had hundreds of crashes. Wasn’t allowed to transcode to ProRes because of client so had to make do.
A few things I did to help it crash less was turn-off “Scrub High Quality” in the timeline and delete my thumbnail scratch from time to time, along with Final Cut’s preferences. I can’t remember where I read it, probably here somewhere, but there was a bug with how XDCAM EX footage would create thumbnails in Final Cut at one time. Now, none of these got rid of the crashes totally, but it did alleviate it a bit. If you can, transcode to ProRes and don’t look back.
BTW, did a quick search and here are a few similar threads that might have info that could help you:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1055718#1063091
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1011917#1049619
tony
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[Joseph Owens] “The only method that I’ve been able to glean is a very time-consuming trip through Compressor, Fast conversion, top-field first. Trying to achieve A-, or B- field dominance is another trick.”
If you have access to After Effects, try it in there. This is how I’ve been doing it for years and it’s pretty fast and looks fine. But having the option in Final Cut would be faster.
tony
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[Brad Ballew] “Bonus Question (if anyone has any input) I sometimes shoot with the 7D also, which imports in FCP beautifully. Any suggestions combining the 1920×1080 DSLR footage with the 1440×1080 HDV footage?”
As long as your frame rates are the same for the DSLR footage and the HDV footage (ex. 23.98), you can just edit in a ProRes 422 1920×1080 23.98 and Final Cut will scale the HDV accordingly. You’re probably better off just upresing all the HDV to 1920×1080 ProRes to match your DSLR footage on your transcode and then you can edit natively in Final Cut without having to render as much. Just make sure you transcode your DSLR footage to something “Final Cut edit friendly” like ProRes 422, too.
tony
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If it distorted when it was initially recorded you’re stuck with that since the distortion is “baked in”. There are programs, like SoundSoap, that can remove noise that may help a little if the distortion is constant, but mostly there’s not much you can do besides re-record it.
If it came from a tape, there is a chance it was captured with the audio levels set to hot so you might be able to re-load the tapes in with the audio lower to get rid of the distortion.
tony
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Sorry about that. I am not aware of a way to use a batch list for Log and Transfer. I’m guessing you don’t want to just load the entire clip in but just the portion you need. If you right click the column headers at the top of the Log and Transfer Window (where Media Start, Media Duration, etc are) you can add the “IN” and “OUT” columns and then just copy and paste the timecode you want into each respective clips settings.
tony
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Try this:
Set your settings for the first tape in Log and Capture then instead of loading the clip in right away click the “Log Clip” at the bottom of the window. This puts the clip into your browser as an offline clip waiting to be captured. Then close the Log and Capture window and go to your browser and find the offline clip you just set settings for. Then just duplicate that clip as many times as you have tapes. Then, from the browser still, just change the reel names on the duplicated clips so that each one is unique to a tape ans you should be go to go.
tony
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If you haven’t already, try deleting your Final Cut preferences and cache.
tony
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Always have had good luck with the western digital caviar black drives.
tony