[Zander]

well as far as converting the to wav for are you wanting to do this per chanel or both as a stereo pair, becaus eif you want to export those audio files, it’s relativly easy, just go to export and fidlle with the settings, (i don’t have fcp open nor am i going to open it because im not sure of exactly what your talking about. but it shouldn’t be hard at all.

as far as avid to tape, i have no experience with avid, id say sure maybe because using a complete avid set jup probably has a more fluid export (un interupted data stream) to the tape.

as for 3, id say go look at the xsereve with raid set ups, is that kinda what your looking at relativly cost effective, work super well in mac houses, and work excently with .mac and other file transfer houses, for instance in jarhead, when dailys came in, they would cut them up and put it on an xserve with raid conected to an extemely secure file transfer website, 5 min after it was cut the director was beigning to watch it on his laptop in the middle of death valley california (the edditors got to sit in nice clmate controled environmetn all day. i love my job, dont you?)

ive never really had any timecode problems once the footage was captured, but thats not to say there aren’t problems

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[Zander]

thanks yikes for posting that, for a while i woulda sworn people thought i was like associated with pete because i promoted his filter set so often, but it’s got some really cool things for free.

yes petes should have the filter your looking for, and don’t be afraid to combinepetes plugins to do what your looking for or petes and some other filters, who knows. theres a ton of ideas and cool effects.

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[Zander]

ya but um, the other one is free, and i think that might be the point.

the thing is, id love something like this, but 500 dollers is 1/4 of my 2 month school budget that includes everything from food to film and tapes, to actors etc for film school. i would love that to work, though i know it won’t, to bad we can fudge it, with like another plug in that wouldf then take that aaf and convert it into a readable after effects aaf.

kinda like taking a mini dvi to a dvi converteer and straping that to a mini dvi to svideo converter. also known as “ghetto riging” in us young kid circles

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[Zander]

i had a similar experience several months ago when designing a 3d box of pictures, part of it, im sure was my freshness to a.e. especially cameras and 3d.

anyways, this camera would circle aroung this box showing all the sides, and to ease it with the camera i also moved the box, as this happened. well it finally came to the top of the box where the camera would prgress inisde revealing 6 more pictures.

when it decended, the box (or the camera i never could figure it out, i should go back and look at it if i still have the .aep) would flip and rotate randomly neerly every frame with no particular pattern.

confused the heck outa me, but luckly it was for a psychology class and i just told my teacher it reflected my internal confusion. I got an A (:

after effects and finalcut, and any program that can do such amazing things can sometimes just get ahead of itself i think. who knows

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[Zander]

well humm, i bet it’s something to do withtta 90

[Zander]

all i can think of, is that your traker is swithcing corners as they cross, if they cross, you may have to handimate the few frame inbetween.

i hope that helps

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[Zander]

you don’t have to open the pdf in your browser, if you open fcp and go to help and theopen teh ehlp file it will open on your computer (no loading) and faster searching, as well as the fact that it opens in preview

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[Zander]

great tidbit, ive just started working (or trying to understand i have no real multicam footage so ive been fudging it)

on the shooting side, there are little devices that essentially tell all your camera’s exactly what timecode tehy are at, kinda like having a record button for all your cameras in one place, i supose, im not really sure, other then id guess it’s expensive and plugs in somewhere, (the helpfiles/manual have the name for this tool just search for multiple camera edditing)

also smart slates (once again, reallly really expensive, did i mention realy) are good for this, just sinc up to the slate

anyslate in fact will be better then none, as a clap, though distinctive in sound, if your not doing sync sound, your going to have to merge clips and i cna promise you, the human hands seem identicle on the clap for nearly 3 to 5 frames, a slate is a little more exact and distinct (and a simple white board slate can be found for a pitance, 40 bucks at most)

essentially your gonna want a visual and audio clue if you can (audio is kinda a check for what you need)

onto the edditing,

syncing up can be done several ways, as previusly stated, the beging of your clip works wonders, this works because when untuched a clips inpoint is defaulted to the begining, this goes for the end as well, so with an unmarked clip, you can sync up using the beigning or end. Another option is to set in and or outpoints and sync using these, or you can sync using time code. which is awsome, if they all have the same timecode, but remember to do this all the camreas have to be set up this way.

anotehr thing to do, is if you have a shoot where you are using multicams for more then one or 2 takes, or scenes or whatever.(and this works really well if you do have timecode synced[once again i strongly recomend figuring out how to do this, weather it’s talking to the camera op or to the camera provider, rental house or manufacturing, or ask our old friend google]) you can create a multicam sequence, in which u can litteraly creat your movie or show or what ever in one drag and just watch. to do this, select all of your clips that you want in there, control click it and go to create muliclip sequence, or go to the modify menu and do teh same. from here, you can sync up in 2 ways, using start time codes (if all your sequence is on 1 tape, or you adjust your timecode by the tape or you can do it with matching timecode. where all teh clips with timecodes matching that of the largest clip of anyparticular stretch will be set into a multiclip. If say, you have one camera that stops recording at 5 min in and another at 5.5 min, you can adjust the percentage these clips can match the largest clip, and there by have final cut desipher wich clips sync where (a very nice featur but a double edge sword, please make sure that all your clips are where they should be) when final cut can see that there is a reasonable difference betwenen you clips, first it will seperate them by name, then it will put a devide inbetween them, (to make my point clear, try it with 2 sets of duplicated clips [i.e. 4 duplicates of 2 different clips] and fiddle with it, youll see it for yourself and have a chance to explor multicam edditng etc.)

so once finalcut has extrapolated the time code data it will then allow you to view everything in order i supose, when your done letting finalcut extrapolate, open your multiclip sequence and you will see each set of clips distinguished as layers in the timeline (sorry a little aftereffects speak) as different clips. you can then move an adjust where they start and end then begin to eddit them multiclip wise (btw i recomend setting up keyboard shortcuts as fcp tells you, err um forces you i should say, you can always make them super combo buttons like cmnd shft option 1 and addthem to a multi button tool like a shuttle wheel) the other option syncs up by where the begining and only the begining of your clips, this im not to familiar with, other then using my example style of 2 seperat movie files, it devides them no matter what timecode i enter.

i hope all this helps, you or someone, or is even legibal/understandable, or even knowlegeable.

hope i didn’t start to simple either.

-Aaron

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[Zander]

from my experience with simple simple things that ive fiddled with (no hd codecs, no pal just simple mostly stuff going into dv ntsc or 24p dv) it almost seems that aftereffects over interlaces, if that makes sense, it’s like when you watch dv fottage or tv or what ever, you don’t notice the interlacing so muc, but with the rendered fotage as ntsc from a.e. it’s noticable, you see the odd blockness or however you see it (i notice the blockyness of things, with the weird interlaced edges,sorry not a good description)

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[Zander]

oh i do, i work on a laptop or a machine that isn’t mine, so i take my ipod all over and use it as a “third monitor” with the podcast running so i can fallow along if i have questions, save space and running memory

as yet another side note, i believe the 2nd part of aharons toonpodcast is flawed, run it throough, but ive re downloaded it on itunes and it doesnt; work, it cuts out roughly half way through, a more exact time can be found, but it’s right after he gets done with the scripts, the rest no longer works.

thanks for the answer

-Aaron

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