T. Payton
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The 7D can’t do full rez 4:4:4 HDMI output.
Regarding green screen work, the 7D does a great job. Proper lighting of your key as always is the trick.
Also consider the end result and your audience. i.e. how good does the key have to look. Are you building a virtual set (CG elements) or are you trying to sell an actor in an environment. A virtual set can get away with a “rougher” key than trying to put an actor in a natural environment.
And I must boast about the FCP X keyer. I grabbed a job I did a couple of years ago that was shot on HDV 4:1:0 on blue screen (it was short notice and that is all we had) and matts were created in Keylight in AE. The renders from key light had taken about an hour for a 5 minute clip. So I opened this up in FCP X and it was pulling a key just as good as Keylight AND IN REAL TIME!
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
So do you think you just had a bad tape?
Can I archive just a portion of the tape or do I have to do the whole thing
Create Archive will rewind the tape and bring in everything, regardless of timecode breaks, etc. However you can stop the Archive half way through or whenever you like and it will give you the option to keep the partial archive.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I would try the Create Archive rather than import, there must be a timecode break or something else that FCP X is seeing in the import process.
Regarding Audio, I just upgraded to Lion and I do hear audio when Creating Archive. But I believe in Snow Leopard I didn’t hear audio when importing.
Try the Create Archive and see if you like the results.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Ty,
Sorry you are having trouble, I have captured dozens of tapes with the Canon HV30 (HDV) and a Sony TRV 11 (DV) successfully. I have been in the process of archiving all of our old tapes (hundreds) an many of the tapes I captured were old and had timecode breaks, etc. and these problems are pronounced when trying to just import. Creating a camera archive seemed to solve those issues.
Did you try Create Archive, or Import?
Also I have heard of others having issues with capture. Some had some relief with a different FireWire cable, so you might try that.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
You are a funny guy. Thanks for the chuckle. 😉
You can indeed hit the import button. It does the same as “Capture Now” in FCP 7. But I only hit it a few times. Camera Archives are just way to efficient.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Don’t do it man! Get to work and blow off installing FCP X.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
I missspoke, yes it is TOD timecode.
BTW. I have an old MacPro 2006 too. Installed FCP X and it didn’t mess with any of my Matrox stuff. Everything still worked with FCP 7 without a problem. And it works great with FCP X. But I totally understand your apprehension.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
[Ron Priest] “hen have it auto name each additional file in proper numerical increments such as C1T1-2, C1T1-3 ect..? If not, I believe it would be more beneficial for me to capture on the old Mac Pro in FCP7 then.”
Ron. That is a great point! Indeed, all the file names (in the Finder) will be time stamps. But you can rename those without a problem. See below:
However, with FCP X, media management is totally different than it was in FCP 7. In your current workflow it seem like file names are very important, but in a perfect FCP world, all media is copied to a FCP X event folder and is renamed inside FCP X (which doesn’t actually rename the file in the Finder.) and this isn’t a problem in this case because each event is really self contained and doesn’t refer to external files. The file name of the clip is irrelevant. That is unless you need to mess with the media outside of FCP X and then it would be advantageous to have properly named files.
Hopefully Apple will restore the ability to write the “clip name” back to the file, like it did in FCP 7.
If I were you I would load up FCP X on your second machine (the license allows it) and just try an Camera Archive.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Looks like I need to use a different phrase to refer to being confused and out of it. (as in my previous post). Didn’t mean to cause anyone to stumble.
So let me reword this:
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Mark,
You are not seeing things. The clip timecode used to be displayed when skimming with the Trim tool activated.
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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque -
Mark.
You’re not smoking crack. Looks like that feature was removed. Big bummer. ;(
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OneCreative, Albuquerque
