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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: recording timecode out via firewire -- RESULTS - 17 years agoNick just checked th new tape. the first frame is spot on, but over the course of the 18min of recorded time the TC drifts by about 32 frames. it seems to occur evenly throught the tape, ie: at minute 10 it had already drifted by about 20 frame. Am I doing something wrong? the original footage was shot on the dvx at 24p settings, ingested at 29.97, and i told SVO that the footage was ntsc dv. aby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: recording timecode out via firewire - 17 years agothanks so much for the info guys. the guillotine has already been ordered :-) gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA recording timecode out via firewire - 17 years agoHey all! So it seems my co-director apparently lost one of our mini-dv source tapes. Luckily, it was one of the few tapes that we digitized start to finish. The first frame of the clip i want to lay is 00:00:06:01 So now I want to lay a new "master" that has matchin timecode. I have a JVC deck that can slave to timecode or lay its own timecode, and the deck connects via firewirby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: Save-As "fixes" project coruption? - 17 years agoone thing you can do to get the advantages of save as without the file management problems.... do a "saveas" with copy appended to the end. close fcp go into the browser and add a date stamp to the end of the original project file, then delete the "copy" from the end of the new project file, leaving a project file that is "new" but with the old name. gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: hdv - dvcprohd cross convert using kona card - 17 years agocool, thanks shaneby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA hdv - dvcprohd cross convert using kona card - 17 years agoone other quick question using the kona3 or kona lh, converting hdv 1080 to dvcprohd 720. whent he card does the realtime capture/convert, is it going to center crop or letterbox the hdv footage, or is it able to shrink down the entire frame? thanks! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: hdv and kona 3 card - 17 years agoone other quick question using the kona3 or kona lh, converting hdv 1080 to dvcprohd 720. whent he card does the realtime capture/convert, is it going to center crop or letterbox the hdv footage, or is it able to shrink down the entire frame? thanks! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: hdv and kona 3 card - 17 years agothanks shane! you answered the question and more! now i got another opinion - capture native, use compressor to do a quick convert of all the footage, then cut the native hdv into the timeline. what do you think of that? gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA hdv and kona 3 card - 17 years agohi all so i am considering an investment in a kona3 card. the guys i work for are shooting dvcpro50 off the panansonic, and hdv stuff off a sony hdv camera. my solution for working with the two tpes of footage is to convert all the hdv stuff to dvcpro50 and work at that. we have the sony HVRM25U deck to ingest the hdv. i want to do realtime capture/conversion to dvcpro50 - can i do that using thby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA wonky framerate conversions - 17 years agohey everyone! i am now officially confused. I am trying to use compressor to change the framerate of a number of clips, and am using the animation codec. however, the clips produced have strange framerates of 5.72, no matter what i do. in the "animation" settings i stipulate many different framerates (30, 29.97, etc) and sometime i enable rate conversion, and sometimes not. but no mattby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: frame size, pixel aspect ratio, and bears, oh my! - 17 years agothanks, koz, for the response. i am still a little unclear on the whole thing...for some reason it is having trouble sinking in...but i'll look for more resources elsewhere. anyone have a tutorial they can recomend? gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA frame size, pixel aspect ratio, and bears, oh my! - 17 years agoa client sent me a short clip from her fcp project today of a push in on a still frame. she wamted me to replicate it. according to quicktime, the file she sent me was: "720x480" in format, normal size, and actual size. i was exporting quicktimes from AE using the DV compressor, and getting files that said under the format heading: "DV, 720x480 (640x480)" now i imagineby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: how to use cinema tools to conform individual clips? - 17 years agoshane thanka Gin for getting back to me. yeah, it must be that - the clips are all like 12 or 15 fps. i guess i'll use compressor? thanks! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: how to use cinema tools to conform individual clips? - 17 years agoshane thanks for the reply. for some reason that works with some clips, and not others. is the animation codec not supported? i am going to poke around and see if i can figure this out, but thanks for the info! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA how to use cinema tools to conform individual clips? - 17 years agohi all i need to conform a bunch of quicktimes that are various framerates to 29.97 so that i don't have to render in my fcp timeline. from reading around here, i think i should do that in cinema tools, but i can't for the life of me figure out how to do that within the program? can anyone give me a basic workflow? thanks! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: quick question re: firewire 400 port and macbook pro - 17 years agohey all thanks againf or the advice, quick and dirty daisy chaining fw drives worked, for now. so now i want to buy a pci express card wiuth two firewire 800 ports for my macbook pro. anyone have any recomends? thanks again all! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: quick question re: firewire 400 port and macbook pro - 17 years agohey thanks everyone for the input. i'd follow up with my experience, but it sounds as though it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. thanks again! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: quick question re: firewire 400 port and macbook pro - 17 years agodeb thanks for the reply. i know about the express card - i have been meaning to do it, but my client just got in touch with me today and i can't seem to find an expresscard to buy in my neighborhood - as far as i can tell, apple itself doesn't even make one! so for this favor i don;t have time to buy a card over the internet, and was hoping that i could get away with daisy chaining. again,by Gregory O'Toole - Café LA quick question re: firewire 400 port and macbook pro - 17 years agohello all. macbook pro just wondering if i can capture to an external drive connected to my laptop's firewire 400 port while the deck is connected to the external drive. ie, because there is only one firewire port on the laptop, can i chain things in this order -- deck - external drive - computer - using firewire 400 and still capture without significant problems? this is a just a quick anby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: media manager f**kup? - 17 years agothanks for the replies shane and karl! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: media manager f**kup? - 17 years agothanks for the reply shane. but if i do that i have about 70 gigs of redundant files on my drive. if there is a way around that i'd prefer not to do that. thanks! gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA media manager f**kup? - 17 years agohello everyone! so i gave a timeline to my colleague with all the associated media on an external drive. i used media manager to copy the relevant media to that drive from my computer's drive. i guess i clicked "delete unused media from duplicated items" or unclicked "include master clips outside slections" bc the clips on the drive are subdivided in accordance with the timelby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA weird export and image size issues - 17 years agohey everyone... i am delivering a commercial on a 4/3 ntsc 720x480 timeline. however, i am using some animations that are 1920x1144, which means i need to render them to see them in the timeline. since i am platying around with them, i'd rather render them out as smaller files to work with, then reconnect to the larger files once i am done. so...i batch export all the clips as quicktimes with sby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: OT: wired lavalier mike recomendation? - 17 years agothanks for all the ideas everyone, i appreciate the guidance!by Gregory O'Toole - Café LA Re: Sons of a Gun Teaser - 17 years agoDerek Thanks again for the feedback. I like what you're saying. I tend to "linger" on shots so that they sink in, but you're probably right about the "silent shots" and the need for a rhythm that builds. "There is a sense that these guys aren't self-pitying wusses; they have a pretty good time living together, and their chemistry is a playful one." \I'm really gby Gregory O'Toole - Show and Tell Re: Sons of a Gun Teaser - 17 years agoDerek Thanks for the feedback! 1) I agree. Super duper late night and FCP kept crashing (like every 5 minutes when i tried to save!!) so I went with whatever i could get! Since then I have started using AE much more! 2) This is an interesting point. We made this for a screening at the IFP, so we "set the scene" for people a bit. But I know what you mean - especially the longer traiby Gregory O'Toole - Show and Tell Re: Sons of a Gun Teaser - 17 years agoJude Thanks for the quick feedback! Glad to hear that someone with broad editorial experience finds it compelling! I know about the download thing - our web guy is not really a web guy, and he works for free so I can't complain too much. Good to hear though anyways! Thanks again Jude Gregby Gregory O'Toole - Show and Tell Sons of a Gun Teaser - 17 years agoCheck out the teaser we did for our showing at the IFP of our feature length documentary called Sons of a Gun. What do you all think? Thanks!! www.sonsofagunmovie.comby Gregory O'Toole - Show and Tell OT: wired lavalier mike recomendation? - 17 years agoCan anyone recommend a decent wired lavalier mike to be used for basic documentary/commercial interviews in the $300 price range? Thanks! Gregby Gregory O'Toole - Café LA |
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