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Re: Help synching 23.98 audio to 25 video - 12 years agoUse them as is. What G is saying is that if your 25p movie is 100 minutes long and if your audio was done syncing to a 24p version (of the 25p one) then your audio files should be ~ 4% longer time wise. IF however you audio was done to the 25p version at 100mins long then you need not change the audio files at all. Simply line them up in FCP without changing anything.by Ben King - Café LA Re: Help synching 23.98 audio to 25 video - 12 years agoAre you sure the AV files are exactly the same length time-wise? If so: Do you have FCPX? In FCPX create a 25p Project ? Import both the original 25p Video and the 23.976p Audio. ? Then time stretch the audio to the 23.976p length of the 25p video (zoom in to match frame accurately) FCPX automatically compensates and shifts the pitch correctly and so far in trials perfby Ben King - Café LA Re: FCPX playback flicker on MacPro===>Graphics card or Ram??? - 12 years agoOops! Yes I linked that from another post without reading the NOT bit... A bit dumb really - (both on my part and Apple's) they should write a positive list of confirmed cards rather than only a negative list so we can isolate problems that are definitely spec related. ...the GT120 is an awful and underpowered GPU anyway and at the lower end Nvidia are not the best choice for the Apple Proby Ben King - Café LA - X Re: FCPX playback flicker on MacPro===>Graphics card or Ram??? - 12 years agoHey Doug From the qualified GPU list for FCPX: I don't see the GT120 so I suspect it is not supported. If you upgrade to Lion and keep the GT120 in your Mac you can run a VERY fast PC GPU alongside as I have done. I've installed an Nvidia GTX580 3GB which so far works perfectly under FCP7 and FCPX and the other ProApps but really flies using Adobe CS 5+. Lion has drivers for the 5by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: Best operating system for FCP 7 - 12 years agoHad no issues with FCP in Lion (once Quicktime Pro issues had been sorted due to mismatched versions in System and Library). Also had no issues under Snow Leopard. Leopard often had issues with hanging due to coreaudio conflicts funnily enough one happened today at a facilities house I'm working at that hasn't updated past Leopard.by Ben King - Café LA Re: Do I need to convert? - 12 years agoTrue... ...but you also need to feedback if there is an issue before the camera crew leave location/set so image checking should always be part of it. Conversion to an editing codec perhaps not - but certainly checking the shots. A DIT checklist should include: A. DigiMags/Cards are properly recorded (in the correct format) and working correctly. B. DigiMags/Cards are copied readyby Ben King - Café LA Re: Do I need to convert? - 12 years agoQuoteSo, after importing every memory-card volume, compare every imported clip with its camera original. It's tedious work, but will save you a massive rescue operation later. I've done a lot of DIT work and helped Jon develop Digital Rebellion's Auto Transfer Tool in the Pro Media Tools - it is an absolute life saver performing checksums on the copied files and providing a number of transferby Ben King - Café LA Re: Best Large File Transfer Services - 12 years agoyes is my current fave - be careful of dropbox - apparently they have a dodgy copyright clause in the T&Cs! I can't confirm or deny but certainly not using it.by Ben King - Café LA Re: strange orange square - 12 years agocool - I've not been using FCPX due to clients all using FCP7 - so you ad simply zoomed in huh? Ah be thankful it wasn't your GPU going! My old X800 died with screen corruption and I think an orange square made a brief appearance before the video memory died... I'm not going to go and zoom an FCPX timeline to see it for myself!by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: strange orange square - 12 years agoSorry Jen we are all trying to learn the little foibles of FCPX too Try trashing your preferences - you can get Jon's Preference Manager free from:by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: FREE STEREOSCOPIC 3D PLUGIN FOR FCP - 12 years agoScrap that - all working nowby Ben King - News and Announcements Re: FREE STEREOSCOPIC 3D PLUGIN FOR FCP - 12 years agoHey John - Links not working - any chance you can write the full link out?by Ben King - News and Announcements Re: Nice review on new Avid - 12 years agoWell it looks like Avid finally started listening to the users! MC6 looks great - will have to put it to the test. Avid now looks like a really fantastic grown-up-product with proper WIDE industry integration rather than the "petulant Wall Street businessman with a 'Peter Pan complex' sitting in his expensive, secluded, rather-dated apartment with 'special friends' group chatting about hby Ben King - Avid Media Composer Re: OT: Despite new CPU options, Apple reportedly questioning future of Mac Pro - 12 years agoI watched "Steve Jobs: iChanged the World" too - and agree - it was pretty uneven from our (the pro users) POV but it seemed more of a consumer doc for a consumer audience - we my dear Loren - are heading the way of the art house film! My worry is that this "new trend" to minimise - forcing pro users to put PCIe expansion outside the box is a backwards step at the moment asby Ben King - Café LA Re: media manager - deleting unused media - 12 years agoIf you have the original media on a backup then its not so crazy to get rid of the working copies - however you should dump all the *"non-easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy-reconnect-able footage" and FX onto a backup drive including the FX projects files (AE, Motion, etc) too. Don't be embarrassed about the size of your HDD! Its how you use it that counts... To give you an idea of my setuby Ben King - Café LA Re: Using USB 3.0 for Editing - 12 years agoI've used the CalDigit AV drive on a MBP or on a MacPro and it's very fast - USB on a single HDD is comparable with eSATA and had no issues with video editing ProRes HD or DNxHD. Via USB3 the Caldigit AV drive does around 128MBps Read and 100MBps Write It also has FireWire 800 but via that connection it only does around 85MBps R/W I was cutting a mix of ProRes 422 1080p25 and XDCAM EX 1by Ben King - Café LA Re: media manager - deleting unused media - 12 years agoGotta agree with D's wise words there. I just buy a new hard disk and archive EVERYTHING. I only consolidate when sending a project away for external finishing if I'm not doing it myself and I don't have the luxury of a large HDD but I always keep the project intact. It's not like the old days when we had 2GB Striped Avid RAIDs and had to consolidate regularly to make enough space! Hardby Ben King - Café LA Re: Automatic Duck is now free! - 12 years agoWhat a lovely gesture! I love using FCP7 to time out a rough sequence and then use Pro Import AE to get it into AE for FX work. These should be in everyone's arsenal. Cheers for the heads up Kev - say hi to Wes!by Ben King - Café LA Re: media manager - deleting unused media - 12 years ago...oh yeah. Then check your new consolidated project is all there and hunky dory before you go and delete the original!by Ben King - Café LA Re: media manager - deleting unused media - 12 years agoNo probs! ? Simply select the timeline you want to MM in the browser ? Right Click and MM ? Select Copy ? Uncheck "Include master clips outside selection" ? Check "Delete used media from duplicated items" ? Set your handles - I'd suggest a 2 second handle [00:00:02:00] would give you more than enough to tweak minor IO edits later (if necessary) ? Uncheckby Ben King - Café LA Re: Having trouble with multiple video layers affecting density with Alexa Footage - 12 years agoI just tested with some Alexa 444 footage but couldn't replicate the issue so I think my suggestions above won't make much difference (still try them though). - what sort of graphic frame are you using? Are they PSD layers or TIFF, PNG with transparency or Motion projects?by Ben King - Café LA Re: Having trouble with multiple video layers affecting density with Alexa Footage - 12 years agoHey Joe Are the comps rendered? It could be a shift due to realtime playback. Also in your sequence settings: ? is Video Processing set to "Render 10bit material in high-precision YUV" ? is Motion Filtering Quality set to Best Another thing are you shooting 422 on the Alexa or is the footage 444RGB? Do your sequence settings match the footage?by Ben King - Café LA Re: media manager - deleting unused media - 12 years agoSorry but this made me laugh this morning... I don't mean to be rude it just made me chuckle. Who told you that you had to mark IO points outside the timeline in order to media manage? I'd hunt that person down and drop their Android HTC in a glass of coke and stamp on their PC because they were lying to you and probably giving you heart palpitations! Media manager can indeed remove unuby Ben King - Café LA Re: Improving FCP Speed - 12 years agoCertainly you'll get a better export time from FCP going to a SCQM (Self-Contained Quicktime Movie) using Export Movie. Also rendering before you export will cut export time - if things are not rendered it will render as you export increasing export time. This includes the Olive Green and Green realtime indicated clips - check the render all menu has everything ticked and then render. Everyby Ben King - Café LA Re: Improving FCP Speed - 12 years agoNope, adding RAM won't help. You'll need a faster Mac. Playback could be improved with a faster GPU and faster media drives. Can I ask what sequence settings and source footage you are using? I suspect you are using MPEG based HD material if 1 minute takes 10 to export! Use ProRes 422 not XDCAM (all flavours) if you want to speed up your workflow especially on older slower Macs. Alby Ben King - Café LA Re: RS422 & 422(LT) - 12 years agoI do not recommend LT for a final unless you really have no choice - But LT is pretty damn good if the footage is reasonably well lit. However like low bandwidth H.264 it can suffer in the large areas of subtle gradients (esp. black) with compression artefacts and also around high contrast areas such as graphics/text. It may be perfectly passable for News or documentary but wherever posby Ben King - Café LA Re: HELP: Compressing Video - 12 years ago...for an hour and a half feature you could use H.264 VBR 2 pass (or 3 pass on X264) at a target data-rate of about 1.5Mbps up to 2.40Mbps . Or use 1280x720p @1.5Mbps to 2Mbps for iPad/Pod/Phone/AppleTV - should look good and be about 900MB to 1.2GB for an hour and a half. Twenty mins will come out around 280MB You basically have a maximum of about 14Mbps (video and audio data-rate added tby Ben King - Café LA Re: FCP 7 I cannot output to tape to a DVCAM without video pixelating a lot - 12 years agoOr better still! ? Duplicate your FCPX master project (event) in FCPX and change the settings.by Ben King - Café LA Re: FCP 7 I cannot output to tape to a DVCAM without video pixelating a lot - 12 years agoHi Steve You might want to upload the screenshots to a webserver or photobucket or similar and link them... I presume you are doing something like the following: ? Import your final edit (ProRes HD output from FCPX) into FCP7 ? Use an easy set-up DV NTSC Anamorphic Timeline ? Drag your final edit (ProRes HD output from FCPX) into the DVCAM 16:9 Anamorphic Timeline (Don't adjustby Ben King - Café LA Re: FCP 7 I cannot output to tape to a DVCAM without video pixelating a lot - 12 years agoHi Steve Ditto Jude and can you post a 1:1 screen grab of a 100% scaled DVCAM output so we can see what you mean? "I have a H.264 pro res 422 video" <- do you mean you have both? - H.264 and ProRes are not the same thing. What pixel size is the source material?by Ben King - Café LA |
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