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Re: Conversion - 8 years ago
QuoteBigBobFCPManThe software does convert to XDCam EX which will work in FCP, but it only does it one at a time, and then I'll have to send that to Compressor to get Pro Res 422 . It sounds like you have solved your problem, except for a bit of bother, if this routine preserves the quality of your original. Consider: in what codec, at what bitrate, is your 4K original; in what codec, at whatby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: making an HD DVD - 8 years ago
Users of DVD Studio Pro see the HD DVD option so they think it's real. Hardly. And they don't see the Blu-ray option (which is hidden in FCP's "Share" ) so they think it's exotic. Hardly. Many more theatres can play Blu-rays than can play HD DVDs. FCP + Compressor can create simple Blu-rays via "Share". The forum covered this here and here. Amateurs can make good lookinby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: migrate fcp6 to a new computer? - 8 years ago
Install the excellent free Preference Manager in both computers. Back up the first FCP installation with Preference Manager. Then find the backup file it created (in Users//Library/Application Support/Digital Rebellion/Preference Manager/Backups/) and copy it to the corresponding folder in the second computer. Now run Preference Manager in the second computer to Restore those FCP preferences.by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: footage in different sizes and 30, 25 and 24 fps, doubts in the sequence settings - 8 years ago
AVCHD -- 27 Mbps H.264, 8-bit, 4:2:0 -- is not such hot stuff to be difficult to transform losslessly. I use ClipWrap to transform 1920x1080 25p AVCHD to ProRes HQ, and to transform 1920x1080 50p AVCHD to ProRes SQ. ('ProRes SQ' is strypes' sensible way of designating non-Proxy, non-LT, non-HQ, ProRes 422.) I save two copies of the original AVCHD, which are pleasantly small, but have not yetby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: footage in different sizes and 30, 25 and 24 fps, doubts in the sequence settings - 8 years ago
alioshka: was 1920x1080 original converted to 1280 x 720? In that case I'd go back to the 1920x1080 AVCHD and convert to 1920x1080 ProRes. Nick warned about FCP's poor handling of varying frame rates. You can use Compressor to pre-transform your various materials to 25p before bringing them to FCP6. Compressor nicely transforms 24p material to 25p with its "make source frames plaby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Transfer speeds: FW800 to USB3 vs Thunderbolt - 8 years ago
The estimated time at the start of a large transfer means nothing. Wait a while. If after several minutes the estimated time is much longer than 2 hours you have a problem. You should not have expected the transfer to the thunderbolt drive to be faster than the transfer to the USB3 drive. They should be about the same, since the bottleneck in each case should be the FW800 drive. The FW800by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: down converting 2k file to work in FCP 5 Pre-Intel - 8 years ago
filmman: Your original number 2045 became 2048 in your fourth post. Maybe your 1556 number should have been 1536. 2048x1536 could scan the full 4-perf super-35 frame with aspect ratio 1.33:1. Then when you crop the soundtrack off the side, the aspect ratio won't change to 1.375:1; instead it will decrease. Doesn't the 2048x1536 scan show thick frame lines above and/or below the image? Theyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Unsqueeze Anamorphic and Export? - 8 years ago
QuoteNick Meyers what you are dealing with is a 2.40:1 image squeezed into, then un-squeezed from a 16/9 frame. Nick meant to write "a 2.40:1 image squeezed into, then un-squeezed from a 4/3 frame". Joe's original 2048 x 1536 pixel image, when displayed with square pixels, is a 4:3 image. When displayed with non-square pixels, it can have any proportions at all. The FCP7 Sequenceby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Unsqueeze Anamorphic and Export? - 8 years ago
The FCP7 Sequence Settings for Pixel Aspect Ratio are a bit weird. There six choices given. Each one means a pixel widening factor: "Square" means factor = 1 "NTSC - CCIR 601 / DV (720x480)" means factor = 0.8889 "PAL - CCIR 601 (720x576)" means factor = 1.0667 "HD (960x720)" means factor = 1.3333 "HD (1280x1080) means factor = 1.5 "HD (1by dcouzin - Café LA
Re: down converting 2k file to work in FCP 5 Pre-Intel - 8 years ago
Shane: "... and pulldown was removed", but what happened to the edit when pulldown was removed? Pulldown is removed from the 60p by taking a frame and throwing away the next two, then taking a frame and throwing away the next one, etc., etc. The editor has made cuts in the 60p and expects his edit to flow the way he edited it. It won't after pulldown is removed. To give a tiny eby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: down converting 2k file to work in FCP 5 Pre-Intel - 8 years ago
But DVCPRO HD doesn't have 24p. It has 60p, and when filmman cuts the 60p he will break the 3:2 cadence making it difficult, or impossible, to match his edit back to 24p. That's why to use AIC instead. Is it really necessary to match back to the sound master(s) via timecode? Isn't the sound from the continuous optical track? If the supplied ProRes had its soundtrack at 48 kHz and 24bit isnby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: down converting 2k file to work in FCP 5 Pre-Intel - 8 years ago
filmman: Since 1932, "Academy Frame" has meant one thing: 0.825" × 0.600" for picture. That picture aspect ratio is 1.375. There's no sound track in the Academy Frame. The sound track can run beside it. Your numbers 2048x1556 are implausible, and I wonder if you're missing some information. Since you received a QuickTime file, although you don't say what codec that fby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: down converting 2k file to work in FCP 5 Pre-Intel - 8 years ago
filmman: What is that 2045x1556 thing? If the pixels are square the aspect ratio is 1.314:1! You say it is "in QuickTime format" but what codec is it in? Preferably transcode to an editing codec with the true frame rate, square pixels, honest picture proportions, and no interframe compression. In FCP5, try the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC). Unlike DVCProHD, AIC encodes with a geby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: AVCHD - how to extract single files in AVCHD format. - 8 years ago
Robert: The main meat of AVCHD recording is contained in .mts files. What to do now depends on how many .mts files were created for those two long clips. If the clips total about 4 hours, and if the recording was on an SDHC card, then each clip was recorded in several .mts files. In this case the .mts files alone won't allow you to reconstitute the clips. When working from the .mts files alonby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
The danger with Apple's, or anyone's, overly creative terminology is that it causes nonsense. What did you mean when you wrote these sentences?QuoteBen KingFrom best performance you should set the block size to match the RAID stripe size or a multiple of the RAID stripe size. IMPORTANT: If the block size you choose does not match the RAID stripe size (or multiple of) then it can be extremelyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
As I said, I initially thought that Apple's "RAID block sizes" were RAID stripe sizes until I noticed that Disk Utility allowed choice of "Raid block size" for both RAID 0 and RAID 1 (which is not striped). This may be a bug in Disk Utility. Or Apple might have a uniquely cockamamie concept of "RAID block size". I suggest we avoid Apple's overly creative termby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
"Block size" has many different meanings in computer technology, and the linked-to Apple Support Article muddies matters the more. That support article is for Disk Utility's software RAID. It says: Quotehttp://support.apple.com/kb/PH5837?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US The disks in a RAID set store data in chunks know as storage blocks. Disk Utility 11.3 gives the user fiveby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
This strand concerns drives and transfer rates. You actually do have a choice about HDD sector sizes, when you buy the hard drive. This year I bought some HGST Ultrastar 7K4000s. I had a choice between the HUS724020ALE640 and the HUS724020ALA640, and chose the former for its 4096 byte sector size. One advantage of buying enclosures and drives separately is that you know what drive you're buyiby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
If we're talking about HDD sector sizes here, in particular the choice between 512 bytes (traditional) and 4096 bytes (advanced format), and if we're talking about video files, then the larger sector size is definitely preferred. Even heavily compressed video at 2 Mbps is using over 10000 bytes per frame. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
better rotation filter? - 8 years ago
QuoteFCP7 User Manual, Chapter 85, Rendering and Video Processing Settings When you adjust a clip’s Rotation parameter, the clip is automatically rendered using the Fastest setting, regardless of the option chosen from the Motion Filtering Quality pop-up menu of the Video Processing tab of the current sequence settings. I verified the warning. Rotations done with the Rotation parameter inby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Sequence corrupted (or Project??) - 8 years ago
Derek, I searched the whole FCP7 User Manual for "disconnect" before offering that renaming way! The idea, however you do it, is to really disconnect the media files and really reconnect them, one-by-one, looking for anomalies at reconnection: differences in the warning. Just uncheck "matched name and reel only" and reconnect to the newly named files. I believe selectiveby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Sequence corrupted (or Project??) - 8 years ago
Since you've been editing the project for the last few weeks, you should have a bevy of earlier versions saved in the Autosave Vault. Open earlier ones and see if they behave better than the latest one. If so, suspicion of FCP itself being corrupt, or the scratch files being corrupt may be relaxed. Then return to the latest project and try disconnecting all media and reconnecting them. I haveby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: too large project? - 8 years ago
User error is possible, and not an unwelcome diagnosis (since an editor can learn FCP7 better but no one's going to debug FCP7). Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: too large project? - 8 years ago
True, these were single frame through-edits, not a string of single frame clips. And these were Motion tab effects, not filterings proper. But they were what disappeared from the project file. I take your original point that: > A huge number of factors could result in a project file not saving -- What's fishy here is that the 15.7 MB Autosave occurred on schedule 30 minutes afterby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: too large project? - 8 years ago
Derek, these are successive frames of an action and the frame-by-frame filtering is in the Motion tab. We'll export lengths of it as wee QT files and reimport. thanks, Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: too large project? - 8 years ago
Thanks Derek. The drives look OK -- permissions checked, Disk Warrior checked, SMART Utility checked -- but we did have corruption problems at the beginning of the project five months ago that required substantial rebuilding. The frame-by-frame editing wasn't on an Image Sequence. Ordinary ProRes clips were chopped down to their frames, and these filtered individually. So no more taxing thaby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: too large project? - 8 years ago
Thanks Nick. The project opens fast enough and there have been no crashes. The only symptom is the disappearance of some editing work, as if FCP decided on its own to do a giant UNDO. Dennis Couzin Berlin, Germanyby dcouzin - Café LA
too large project? - 8 years ago
Does FCP7 spazz when a project becomes too large or complex? Today the editor here found her last few hours of frame-by-frame work gone. The project files in the Autosave Vault showed an abrupt shrinkage from 16.1 MB to 15.7 MB. Her work was salvageable, but why did it disappear? There were no crashes or warnings. The project is all 25p ProRes. The Browser lists about 1200 media filesby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 8 years ago
OK, if "rendering timecode", creating a few bits of data per frame, is a kind of effects rendering, then it's an example where the disk read and write speeds are more important than the effects processing speed. In FCP7 lingo, "rendering" means the production of video render files and audio render files. Exporting is not rendering. For example, I always fully render beforby dcouzin - Café LA
Re: Conform 25fps to 24 or 23.976fps - 8 years ago
Andy, sorry I overlooked some details. XDCAM is based on MPEG-2 which is based on codec H.262 (for picture). Codec H.262 involves interframe compression. Cinema Tools won't conform an XDCAM .mov file. Cinema Tools reports that the video has "temporal compression" and is not conformable for this reason. But interframe compression in a .mov file should not, in itself, preclude confby dcouzin - Café LA
