Lumiere HD cuts off my Video half way through import, audio is still good. Help!
 

Everytime I import a whole 63 minute tape of footage into Lumiere HD, it seems to import it all fine. But after I"m done demultiplexing it and finally getting into an FCP XML file. It cuts the vidoe only off on every tape at exactly 31 minutes 15 seconds into the tape. The whole 63 minutes of audio is still there, and I hvae to end up going back and re-importing the last half of the tape... can anybody help me?

kevin

Can't you just select Custom and enter W 1280 and H 720?

I was having a problem with Timeline Codec not doing anything until I noticed some of my files were only 4k (the .m2t, .m2v and .aiff). When I deleted those, Timeline Codec worked.

lumiere onl for capture
 

You can use lumiere for capture. To encode it for use in FCP you better use Mpeg Streamclip (freeware)

Realtime Timeline Codec File Size
 

I'm capturing 720p/24p footage. Can someone please clarify the FCP proxie files created in the Realtime Timelince Codec in Lumiere HD 1.7? Here are the steps I have taken so far.

1. Choose the PRESETS pull-down menu In the REALTIME TIMELINE CODEC window. Select OTHER.

2. In the COMPRESSION TYPE Pulldown menu, select APPLE INTERMEDIATE CODEC.

3. Select the FRAMES PER SECOND pull-down menu and select 23.98.

4. Select the OTHER button in the COMPRESSOR > PRESET.

5. <b>In the SIZE section, choose the SOURCE button. Note that you can also create a smaller dimension such as 720 x 406 (16:9 aspect ratio) since this is only used as a proxy in FCP to edit with. But if you have the memory and speed, working in the full 1280 x 720 is preferable. These files will not be rendered into your final master. After you edit with this proxy codec, you will use Media Manager to build a new timeline from the full size raw capture images.</b>

Disk Space is the main issue I am dealing with. Because of the additional steps necessary with the HDV 24p footage, I'm taking up tons of disk drive space already. Every GB in the m2t files folder is doubled in the Video files folder after "demuxing" plus the additional space in the Audio files folder. On top of that, the "Realtime" .mov files created after step Three in the Lumiere process (Timeline Codec Apple Intermediate Codec at 1280x720) more than doubles the original video files in file size yet again.

My undersanding in regards to step 5 above was that keeping the 1280x720 pixel size the same would not effect filesize becasue these are proxie files used during the offline. I must have misunderstood this because the .mov video files are bigger than the originals. Can I save disk size by reducing the pixel size of the FCP proxis files during the offline. I have 60 hours of footage to go through still, and I do not need high resolution during the off-line process. My undersanding is that when I create the final on-line sequence with Media Manager I would then up the resolution to Best Quality at 1280x720.

Any suggestions?

similar problem
 

I'm having the samelr problem but not on all tapes, but when it does happen it's always at the same 31 minute and 17 second mark into the clip. Has anyone figured this out?

some .m2v clips are missing some video
 

I just spent all day converting my Realtime .mov files to .m2v files following all the workflow steps listed on this forum and when I went to check the files some of them, not all, some of them are corrupted with the video going black at some point in the file, yet audio continues on. I got a little suspcious when I saw that file size for these .m2v files should have been larger, low and behold it was becasue some of the video is missing. Does anyone know why this happens? How do I fix this? Do I go back and recapture from the begining where the video from these clips drops out, or can I go back and repeat steps in the LHD process after capturing the original footage. Also, after reading another post with a similar problem I went back and checked my faulty clips and sure enough the video drops out at exactly 31 min and 17 seconds into the faulty clips.

JVC HD P{ro Deck Device Control Issues
 

Device control for my JVC HDPro VTR worked fine in LHD for capturing, but in FCP 5 (after following all the HDV 720p/24p workflow steps losted here) I can't get the JVC HD Pro VTR to show up in my list of Devices via Firewire. Has anyone else had this problem and if so what's the solution.

Use Mpeg Streamclip.
Lumiere advises to capture sements no longer than 20 minutes due to a quicktime/mpeg bug. I think the bug is in the lumiere software. Using Mpeg streamclip less problems occur. Ask for repayment of your Lumiere account.

Where do they advise?
 

It's not on their website as far as I can see, nor in their manual. I'm very disappointed in LHD. They have zero customer support, and the silence on this forum is deafening. I'll be asking for my money back soon if they can't provide some ansewers real quick.

Switching From Lumiere to FCP 5.1.2 Capturing
 

So I'm about half way done with the rough cut of my current documentary and I have been using Lumiere HD successfully, albeit with many rough patches along the way. Now that I have FCP 5.1.2 installed I would love to abandon using Lumiere to capture becasue of the added time and additional drive space necessary for all those additional files. Has anyone tried switching to FCP 5.1.2 for logging and capturing in the middle of an edit started with LHD? If so, is this even possible, and if it is, how will the workflow change. I attempted to bring in some new footage into the existing (LHD) project using FCP 5.1.2 and encountered the following issues:

1. It appears that when capturing HDV 720/24p footage with FCP 5.1.2 there is no longer the familiar log and capture window. Instead, just a small window where you can give your clip a title, and then click on capture.

2. It appears there's no way to capture the HDV footage at half resolution (720x480) for offline quality and drive space considerations. The HDV 720/24p to Apple Intermediate Codec is locked and it appears there is no way to duplicate it and then customize the resolution size like I was able to do when using LHD. What ends up happening then is that I will have clips with two different resolutions in the same sequence, the Lumiere AIC clips are 720x480 and the clips captured directly through FCP will be 1280x720. I realize that once I'm ready to online and I reconnect the Lumiere AIC clips to their original 1280x720 "master" sources, that everything will be full 1280x720, but having two resolutions in the same rough cut sequence is a little weird. Because the sequence setting is 720x480, the new FCP captured clips are being reduced to about 56% automatically when I bring them into the sequence timeline which means they need to be rendered every time I move them around.

3. For some reason the footage coming in via FCP 5.1.2 HDV 720/24p to AIC has a frame rate of 59.94 fps instead of 23.98 fps, so when I drop them into the AIC sequence (23.98) they are playing at about 2x speed.

Help with export settings/FCP
 

I've got FCP (latest version) and some 1080i/60 footage from a Canon XH-A1 crudely slapped together- about two minutes worth, no sound. I created an MP4 file that came out to an amazing 6.7mb- of course it showed serious compression artifacts but still impressive considering. Now I'd like to create a file that stresses quality not compression- can someone recommend settings for that? Thanks!