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embedded timecode (VITC) - 8 years agoI have had a quicktime master rejected by Universal QC on the grounds that it has "no timecode embedded in the file". I don't see anything in Premiere's export dialogues about including or excluding TC. How do I solve this? (PS - This is not about visual burned-in timecode; they're looking for 'embedded timecode' as part of the file; i.e., what you'd get on a tapeby Tom Sanders - Adobe Premiere Pro CC another 'get FCP onto a new Mac' question... - 9 years agoI want to move my FCP 7 to a new MacBook Pro. I have install disks for FCP 3 & 4, and possibly a disk image from 5, but I honestly don't remember how I installed 7. It's a fully legit license, but it's been so long I don't remember whether I got here through online upgrades or new instal disks or what. I recall doing a cross grade from the individual app to Studio, and I have that paperwoby Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: Adjust Image Size by Dimension? - 12 years agoWhat I'm trying to achieve is to be able to specify a image size, by pixel count, of a clip within a sequence. Say my sequence is 1920x1080, and I have a clip which is 1280x720. Suppose I want to put that clip into the sequence, scaled to exactly 960x540. The only way I found to get there is to scale the image to 150% in the Basic Motion area, and then adjust the Distort slider to -10by Tom Sanders - Café LA Adjust Image Size by Dimension? - 12 years agoIs there a way to adjust clip size by entering a specific x/y dimension, rather than scaling and then adjusting the motion/distort/aspect ratio slider?by Tom Sanders - Café LA OT: Excel logging w/ripple timecode? - 12 years agoWe have a project that will need a lot of ADR. The person who will create the ADR script (in Excel) can't start until the cut is locked, because if we make any changes after she's started, her timecode references will be off. Does anyone know of an excel template (or some other tool) that would allow her to do a draft, and then if we change one or two edits, be able to ripple the timecodes iby Tom Sanders - Café LA Output Movie w/Source Timecode? - 12 years agoIs there a way to export a quicktime where the timecode track is the source timecode from an audio track? The audio source timecode never repeats, but there will be skips and gaps (ie, there may be no timecode for a few seconds of picture and then timecode will resume). If this can't be done directly in the export, is there a way to edit the TC in a quicktime which has been exported,by Tom Sanders - Café LA Migrate project from 6 to 7 - 12 years agoIt's been a while since I've done this and I just want to be sure there's no gotcha I've forgotten about: While it's always sound advice not to change software in the middle of a project, I have an FCP 6 project I've been doing in collaboration with another editor and for at least three reasons* I would like to migrate that project to FCP 7, which I have on another workstation. We have an uby Tom Sanders - Café LA force fcp to recreate titles? - 12 years agoIs there a way to force FCP 7 to recreate titles? I received an h264 timeline which I converted to prores to make it more editable. Used compressor to convert everything except the titles, figuring the titles would automaticaly re-generate when I changed the sequence settings...? Apparently I was wrong about that, so how can I get my titles to recreate in prores?by Tom Sanders - Café LA mixed up export - 12 years agoWe have one system set aside to run FCP 6, for a project in midstream, and it has developed the weirdest error I have ever seen: I have a sequence which plays fine in FCP, but when I do a regular self-contained quicktime output, the audio is a complete scramble. As if I tossed the audio tracks in a blender before I exported the movie. If I go back to the sequence, it plays and edits peby Tom Sanders - Café LA OT Quicktime versions - 12 years agoWhat is the difference between Quicktime 10.0 (118) and 10.0 (128)? What do the numbers in parentheses refer to?by Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: virtually identical systems get different results - 12 years agoI don't think she has Perian, but neither do I. We both have flipformac, but I'm not sure that even handles avi's, or this particular avi compressor. Jon, does your pro-admin app working over the internet?by Tom Sanders - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Compressor vs Cinema Tools for frame rate conversion - 12 years agoChecking 'so source frames play at 23.98' changes the frame rate by simply changing the QT header, as Cinema Tools does? No interpolation? If so, that's just what I need, and it saves me a step. Thanks!by Tom Sanders - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion virtually identical systems get different results - 12 years agoI'm on a project with partners in Korea. I'm trying to devise a file conversion workflow for my counterpart there, but despite very similar system specs (below) I can't get her system to handle a file format that I can process here. Both of us can play (and open in Compressor) uncompressed avi's (from 3Ds Max). But, while I can also open avi's compressed using the ms_video_1 codec, she can'by Tom Sanders - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Compressor vs Cinema Tools for frame rate conversion - 12 years agoI have to convert large numbers of animation files from avi 24 fps to prores 23.98 fps. The workflow I'm looking at uses Compressor to go from avi to prores, and Cinema Tools to go from 24 to 23.98. I know I could change the frame rate in Compressor, but it's my understanding that doing so could introduce motion artifacts caused by including the frame rate conversion in the compression procesby Tom Sanders - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: true 24 fps media (not film or HD) to 23.98 project - 12 years agoI did a test, using the conform function in cinema tools to convert a clip from 24 to 23.976. The conversion worked in both QT and in FCP.by Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: OT: ProRes White Papers - 12 years agoThanks, Ben. Can Prores proxy and Prores 4444 co-exist in the same timeline, with real-time performance, or will one or the other have to render? This is an animated project and I'd like to use prores proxy for low-res renders, then start adding HQ or 4444 as we start getting finals. (And proxy files are not, in fact 'proxies', right? They're actually self-contained?)by Tom Sanders - Café LA true 24 fps media (not film or HD) to 23.98 project - 12 years agoI'm editing an animated project. The animators say their software can only render at 24 fps. My sound house, which uses protools, requires a 23.98 project. What's the cleanest way to reconcile these two parameters. I do not want to transcode if it involves any kind of image processing.by Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: OT: ProRes White Papers - 12 years agoThanks much for this! On page 10, Apple states: "...The data rates shown on the bar chart above are for ?full-width? (1920 x 1080) HD frames at 29.97 frames/sec. The Apple ProRes family also supports the 720p HD format at its full width (1280 x 720). In addition to full-width HD formats, Apple ProRes codecs support three different ?partial-width? HD video formats used as the recordingby Tom Sanders - Café LA OT: ProRes White Papers - 12 years agoWhat is with Apple? I need some info on the prores codecs, so I go to Apple's website, search prores, click links for the prores white papers... and get taken to a sell-sheet for FCP X. They're not bailing on prores, too, are they? Here are the questions I'm trying to get answered: a) ProRes is billed as a lossy format for post production but not for delivery. If you're going to edit inby Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: batch trim head + tail? - 12 years agoPure genius, Nick. As I was started following your instructions, I was shaking my head... "What is he thinking?" Then, wammo! It's perfect. Thanks. - Tomby Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: Best Codec for 3DS Max animation coming into FCP - 12 years agoThanks for all your comments. I guess I wasn't clear enough. I'm only concerned about the first pass / low res animation stages (we call this layout). For the full rez finals, we go 10 bit TIFF or 16 bit DPX. For the layout and rough animation passes, I'm looking for the best performance in FCP, given that the source is 3DSmax' s 'quick output mode' (not sure what they call this; it'sby Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: batch trim head + tail? - 12 years agoNo, it's animation with handles.by Tom Sanders - Café LA batch trim head + tail? - 12 years agoIs there a way to automatically trim the head and tail of a batch of clips by a set number of frames? ie, "take 8 frames off the head and tail of 30 shots in the browser (or in the timeline)"?by Tom Sanders - Café LA Best Codec for 3DS Max animation coming into FCP - 12 years agoPreparing to receive animation files from 3DSmax on PC. For the first pass (low-res animation), I'm offered three choices: h264, motion jpeg, photo-jpeg. Of these, the artists would prefer to send h264, but photo-jpeg seems like the only way to go, as I would expect the others wouldn't play well with FCP 7. I gather that the limited export options for the low res pass are a function of theby Tom Sanders - Café LA sharing a project internationally - 12 years agoIs there a good workflow for sharing a project with another editor on a remote system where drives cannot be shuttled back and forth? I need to collaborate with an editor working in Korea. My thought is to start by sending him a clone of my media drive, and then use something like LiveDrive (http://www.livedrive.com/ForBusiness) to keep his drive and mine mirrored on a nightly basis. Weby Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: Markers discard TC info? - 12 years agoThese tracks are from a protools session and they have timecode, which I've been making use of (ie, in my bins, the TC appears in the Media Start column). In what way do I need to enable the tc in order for it not to be 'forgotten' after editing from markers? (that's weird, my message appeared, disappeared and reappeared; sorry it's now here twice or something)by Tom Sanders - Café LA Re: Markers discard TC info? - 12 years agoThese tracks are from a protools session and they have timecode, which I've been making use of. In what way do I need to enable the tc in order for the markers to be aware of it?by Tom Sanders - Café LA Markers discard TC info? - 12 years agoI have an audio file. I use markers to log several takes within it. I double click a marker to load a take into the viewer and cut it into a sequence. Later, I return to the clip in the seq to make a note of which take I used... And there seems to be no way to determine which marker the clip came from. The timecode for this 'sub clip' (I didn't explicitly convert markers to sub clips, so Iby Tom Sanders - Café LA |
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