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Great. I’ll try that and let you know.

thanks

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Yes, I am realizing that I need to get more familiar with it. I didn’t realize all the settings in different places.

I will be finishing on a DVD that will playback on a video projector, for a users conference. So, now that my seuqence is at 29.97 and the footage is at 29.97, can I jsut be done and send to DVD? I don’t need to re-capture, right?

really, truly, appreciate all the help and the fast responses!

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Actually, it looks really good in the canvas, clean. But, when it goes down the firewire to my TV it doesn’ look that great. I do know the “feel” of 24p, but it looks like it is not coming out right. Maybe becasue it is 24p rather then 24pA, which is what i am used to editing in.

I can also try making a DVD itself. Now that it is 29.97 it will look better I bet.

So, the field order I don’t have to worry about? It looks funny in the canvas, even at 100%.

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I guess I lied. It doesn’t seem to have to render anymore, it did once, but really quickly. Also, all of my audio enveloping is messed up, but I can fix that no problem. It still doesn’t look as sharp as I would expect though.

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Okay, here is what I have found:

1-Footage vid rate all says 29.97.
2-But, my sequence is set to 23.98

Did what you said and it doesn’t look much different on my monitor. It might be a BIT cleaner. Also, I noticed that a few shots now say that they are out os synch by a frame or two. These are clips that I synched together with the live audio. What about field order? Do I need to be concerned with that?

Does it matter that I setup the easy setup to 23.98 before I captured? I guess Final Cut figured it out on its own.

I am also not 100% sure about the whole render thing. It is still saying “unrendered” when plaiynhg SAFE and just stalling out when playing “UNLIMITED”. I don’t have a screaming machine (iMac), but this is pretty basic footage so I thought it would work.

thanks for your help on this. I guess I really messed things up.

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Yes, I am a little confused. So, are you saying that I should have a 23.98 timeline or a 29.97? When I put hte footage on the timeline it does need to be rendered if I turn it to safe RT. I am still confused by how all of this works. I came from the Avid world and there I would have to digitize at 23.98. So, what would I do with cinema tools? Where do I go from here? Do I redigitize or convert them somehow?

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Okay. That makes sense. I guess I am just so used to using the Avid that I kept thinking that it could be done in the viewer window, but this is actually much more visual and pretty easy to do also. Since i will be setting the IN points I cna just drop them on the timeline and then pull the clip back. Is there any other sort of shortcut keys that I could use on this? Can I hit a key to drop the clips and then hit another to bring it back.

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I understand, but perhaps I was not explaining this correctly. If I unlink the vidoe, doesn’t that only unlink IN THE TIMELINE? I want to be able to click on the video and set an in point for slates on both video and audio and create a NEW clip with the clean audio. I was hoping I would not have to do this all inside of the timeline, it seems like a strange way to go.

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So it sounds like striping into a RAID is sort of pointless unless it is a redundant raid. Can I put the project files and media on the same FW drive? Would htat be okay to do? I would also consistenly backup project files to another drive. Perhaps i would consider stirping into an array that would mirror.

I just bought this enclosure:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEFW912AL2/

and i have (2) 250gb hard drives that I was going to stick in. Was this a bad choice? Should I stripe the drives inside into an array. I mostly bought this so that I could use FW 800. I know it isn’t a ton of space, but for the small projects i do, it will suffice. As far as backup, I probably would NOT backup the media, just the core files and keep the tapes. Easy to rebuild.

Thanks

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I also wanted to add something else. I was reading on this board and I heard htat you should or could put the FCS extra files on a different hard drive and keep just the applications on the local. Could I have an external hard drive that is NOT in the RAID and just keep the extra files and the project media. This drive would be constantly backed up (the projects at least.

thanks, sorry for all the questions