HDV on an iMac g5, setup help
 

I am trying to edit hdv from an fx1 on an imac G5, 2.1Ghz with 2.5gb ram. Latest OS, project files and media on external fw drive. It seems like I get the dreaded message that says I need to upgrade my system and hard drive speed everytime I press play (maybe I just need to shut that thing off!). I used easy setup to get my project and sequence settings for hdv and checking the imported clips they say they are hdv 1440 so I don't think it's an AIC problem. Anyone using an iMac G5 can you tell me your settings so I can compare? Thanks!

Cheers,
Scott

Workflow for capturing canon 24f in final Cut pro
 

I have been struggling with FCP capture of 24f Canon footage and, due to enormous help from people on various bulletin boards such as Barlow Elton and Greg Huson, have now got a workflow for which I have sweated blood.

I am using a Blackmagic Decklink HD Pro and Mac G5 dual 2 gig.

It's a bit wierd, but here goes:

1. SDI from camera to B/M card. (By the way, that's the BNC connector on the extreme right if you're facing the rear of your computer).

2. In FCP Set "EASY SETUP" for "B/M 59.95 1080i DVCPro HD". You may need to download this from the B/M site.

3. Go to " Audio/Video Settings" in FCP and toggle "Audio Playback" to "Built in Audio".

4. Now go to Capture presets (also in A/V settings) and check that you have the correct setting (B/M HDTV 1080i 59.94 DVCProHD).

5. See the "Edit" box, below. Hit that. See "Quicktime Audio Settings". Make sure that this says "Built in Audio" and "Line In". Don't change anything else. Hit OK.

6. Connect Audio from camera RCA outputs to Mac mini jack input.

7. In FCP go to LOG and CAPTURE screen. In CLIP SETTINGS, make sure to tick the little Preview box. Capture settings should be "Non controllable device" and B/M HDTV 59.94 DVCPro HD

8. Capture your material. You will probably NOT see it on your computer monitor, but should see it on your external one. You should be hearing your sound. And for goodness sake capture to your internal drive. I thought my G-Raid 1TB would be fast enough, but I struggled with dropped frames which screw up the frame cadence, or whatever it's called … so don't try that.

9. . Get hold of MPEG Streamclip. You probably know that this is a free App from Apple. Open your captured video and audio file. The sound capture is usually about 4 frames off in my case, but consistent.

It is now critical to set your "In" point to the first frame after the two interlaced frames. Last frame doesn't matter.

10. Go to "Export to Quicktime"

Settings as follows:

Compression: Apple DVC Pro HD 1080i50. (I know - but it works this way)

Raise Quality to 100%

Type into the FRAME RATE box: 23.976.

Frame size 1920x1080 unscaled

Check "deinterlace"

11. Go to "Adjustments" and raise sound level to maximum.

12. Hit "Make movie"

I suggest that you save this new file to your external drive. Later, you can trash your original capture and free up your internal disk space.

13. Wait forever.

It takes about 2.5 x real time. It uses about I gig per minute of drive space.

14. Open FCP and create an HDTV 1080i 59.94 DVCPRO HD sequence and drag your newly created file into it. I find that to re-sync the sound, I have to advance the sound by 4 or 5 frames.

Voila! You will find, to your astonishment that you have created a 24fps timeline and your movie is playing at 24 progressive. I know that some of these steps seem to counterindicate a 24p result and appear contrary to any logic. But for some reason that perhaps someone else can explain, it does work.

Incidentally, I have tried many variations on this, including a variation on the last step which is to make a 24p sequence, but for some strange reason my monitor then gives a picture which is very slightly squeezed and has a thin black line running down the right hand side of frame.

I hope I haven't made any mistakes here.

Please let me know if this works for you.

I am able to do a whole roll (1 Hour) at a time using this method. As you may have discovered, C-Tools doesn't accept large files which makes it useless.

Don't forget to email me with your results, if any at harry323@pacbell.net

Best wishes.

Harry.

capturing 720 24p footage from JVC HD100UA into FCP 4.5
 

Hi,

I soon might be able to borrow a friend's PowerMac G5 into which I will transfer my Lumiere hd software. My question is: has anybody in this forum be able to capture footage shot with the above mentioned camcorder and the above mentioned frames using Lumiere HD and a Powermac G5? If so, have you encountered any problems or were you succesful?
I know that that computer has for sure FCP 4.5, not sure if it has FC Studio 5 (might).

I am asking this forum because sometimes the Lumiere people are slow to answer and a bit optimistic.

thanks a lot

Cecilia

FCP project upgrade (4.5 to 5.04) and firewire transfer causing strobing
 

Hey everyone, i edited some HDV footage (captured as DV) on my powerbook with 4.5. I was planning to do grading/effects/de-interlacing on a much faster powermac G5. I transferred the entire project over to the tower via firewire. When i open the project in 5.04 on the G5 i select 'update project' (it can't be opened otherwise i assume?). When i do this all of the footage becomes choppy. It looks kind of like a slow frame rate, or some ugly strobe effect. I know it's not just a playback issue cause i exported a dv movie and the resulting file still had the ugly strobing.

Now the way i see it the problem can only be either:

A. the firewire transfer
or
B. the project update

anybody have any experience with this kind of issue?

Little Green Line At Bottom Of Screen
 

I've shot footage with a Canon XL-2 in 16:9 with 24p.

I capture the footage in 16:9, then drop the footage into a standard 4:3 sequence.

When I cut a clip, then the second half of that clip I slow down to maybe 50/60%, when the regular speed first half clip hits the slower second half speed clip, that one frame causes a little neon green bar to appear and I can't get rid of it.

Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone have an answer for correcting this issue?

Thank you so much!

Josh Woll

interlaced image after mpeg2...
 

I'm having problems with the video clip after I exported it from FCP to DVD pro
using fcp's compressor. The mpeg2 compressed image is sevrely interlased on dvd, although it seems fine in FCP.
Does anybody know what the solution might be?
Thanks
Vic

PCI-E FireWire 800Card
 

Hello All. This is one of my first posts if not the first. I just wanted to say thanks for all the unsolicited (sp) help I have recieved from this forum in the past.

Current specs ( for some background )
Dual Core 2.3
4 gig ram
Decklink card
HDLink
30'' cinema
23'' cinema
2 - 250 gig internals
FCP HD
Adobe CS
**various other goodies as well :)

However, I am purchasing a 1tb external promax HD ( set to raid 1 ). My issue is I plumb out of FireWire ports. Does anyone have any input or suggestions on a firewire PCI-e card for this machine and this drive? Also, could anyone school me on the different PCI-e slot speeds in my machine.

Thanks,
Dave

Variable Speed footage from P2 in FCP5
 

Hi everyone

New to this forum, and have some questions.
Are there any issues importing and editing off-speed/variable speed footage from the HVX PAL version in FCP5?
Any feed back would be much appreciated!

cheers
ys

FCP / Magic Bullet codec help please
 

Hey all. Just struggling a bit trying to wrap my head around the best codec to export a project with. It's a DV PAL edit that I'm planning to put through Magic Bullet in After Effects. After it's been de-interlaced I'd like to bring it backi into Final Cut to do some titling and effects. It will be printed to a mini-DV master for broadcast. What codec should I use? Someone told me uncompressed but that seems like it's just adding data. Any thoughts? Should I be using compressor?

working
 

I've been working in my Final Cut Pro for about 8months now.

First I started off using Motion to do my titles and such, but
without the rest settings I'd get a bit of pixelation... recently I figured
a way around that.

As of recent I've just typed my text in photoshop and save as a PNG.
I start to import and ad various elements to my bin, then the question
came am I doing things the right way?

I often render while I cut and move along my timeline
so as to see what things look like before I finish?

Is that also wrong?

DVCProHD Codec
 

Does anyone know where to find DVCProHD Codec for QT pro 7? I'm at the moment away from home and I'm exporting through MPEG streamclip. At home on mine G5 I have FCP5 and the codec in that computer - but I really would like to know if anyone know if there is anywhere to download the codec?

DVD Burning Software
 

I need simple burning software to burn discs for previewing on my TV. iDVD seems kind of glitchy and takes too long to render out the menu themes.

I see that Toast 7 lists video DVD burning as a feature. Would that be a way to go, or is it just the Roxio version of iDVD?

DV editing on a macbook pro compared to a toshiba qosmio???please hep
 

i have used a pc most of my editing career and for the past 6 months used a powermac G5 and now im considering getting the new toshiba qosmio g35-av650 or the macbook pro. the toshiba seems really nice and even some better specs than the mac. i am more comfortable using PC anyway because i noticed i do all my effects in after effects anyway and just put my footage together on FCP or premire. but will this computer be able to handle DV editing? Please help!!! thanks

iMovieHD or FCP?
 

Here goes guys:
I finished a 20 min wedding highlight in iMovieHD. Footage shot 720 30p from JVC HD100. (HDV) Now I need to make a DVD of this footage. Standard def that will play in current DVD players is fine. I want the best possible quality for this DVD. I have researched and looked all around here, and am somewhat confused by the diffferent opinions, etc. Anyone can tell me the step by step approach to making this work? I have already taken much time completing project, so a new import, selecting DV out is not an option. I do have FCP studio as well. Thanks in advance, and I hope I can repay favor sometime.

Who is using the Kona LHe card?
 

Hi guys. I need some advice from anyone who has had success outputing hdv edits to hdcam tape using the Kona LHe card.

A little background.

I'm editing a doco, shot on a Sony Z1 and digibeta (both 25fps), in fcp 5.1.1. I've down converted the hdv to dv, and the digibeta was transferred to dv as well for the edit. I plan to recapture the final cut in hdv (maybe having transfered the digibeta to hdv as well, rather than hire a digibeta deck. Compromised quality i know.)

We want to use the Kona card to output the cut to hdcam for grading etc direct from an hdv timeline.

A further complication is that the final product has to be 23.98 pfs on hdcam, so converted from interlace to progressive (and slowed) at some stage... Has anyone done this? Horror stories?

I'd be very grateful for any thoughts you guys might have..

Dropped Frames from Exporting/Rendering??
 

Hey All,

I've experienced a problem that I have never seen or heard of before.

I just finished editing the wedding project from H_LL and when I went to export it, my final project had 72 instances of dropped frames, all about 10 frames at a time. I reverted back to a earlier saved version, and it is now in all, I repeat all of the source footage.

Anybody hear of this? All I can guess is that since I am using external drives, they have been dropped somewhere in the transfer.

Please reply with some ideas.
Thanks buddies!

Bryon <><

Frame Mode- Better to do on camera or post?
 

I am getting ready to shoot a series of DVD devotional videos, 42 to be exact. All of the videos will be on average 7-11 minutes in length. I will be shooting in a studio with 2 XL series cameras an one DVX model. I know I want my final project to be 16:9, with a cinematic feel. I have MAgic Bullet and will be using this to addsome color feel to it. When it comes to frame mode, should I use the camera's settings or should i use Cinema tools in FCP Studio? I'm thinking Post would be easier and better.

Now, please give me opinions, thoughts, and suggestions!

Thanks,
Bryon <><

Also, any great tips and techniques you have come up with for adding to the film feel in post would be wonderful!!

Move over Vegas
 

Well I just made the plunge and ordered a shiny new 17" MBPro and FCP. Should be in by the end of the week. Thanks in advance for all the help I am going to need with FC.

Jeff

Would this work: capture 1080i as 720p
 

I want to know if it is possible to capture 1080i as 720p. Here's my idea: capture 1080i via component cables into FCP using a custom capture setup (720p30, etc). I'm wondering because my main camera is a JVC HD100 (native 1280x720 resolution, square pixels). I want to know if I bought a Sony Z1u (1440x1080, rectangular pixels), if capturing via component would effectively capture the pixels as square. Setting the resolution to 1280 x 720 progressive would be easy. But... would it work? It would seem this would be easier on the cmputer's processing than scaling the 1080i in the timeline.

DVCPRO HD audio sync problems
 

I am capturing Varicam footage off of the HD1200 deck through firewire and consistently get audio out of sync by 7 or 8 frames. It seems to me like I probably set something up incorrectly -- has anyone experienced this kind of consistent out of sync audio and is there some way to avoid it in the future? BTW, I am capturing 720p24 and having FCP remove the dupe frames.

mg

No audio on capture?
 

Can anyone tell me if they have audio while capturing HDV? I'm running FCP5 and when I capture, there is nothing for audio. There is audio on the clip after you have captured though. When capturing DV, there is audio and many more options. Is this something thats for HDV only or is it my deck (using brhd50)

Thanks in advance,
Brian

Dig-it-tttal breakup
 

I have a small clip of audi tha has some audio digital hits in it. I tried Sounsoap with little help. What filters can I use in FCP to help?
Shot on Canon XL2 in 16 bit

As always thanks,

Mike

Recall of 15" MacBook Pro BATTERIES
 

https://support.apple.com/macbookpro15/batteryexchange/

Apple is offering free exchange of 15" Macbook Pro batteries that have model number A1175 and a 12-digit serial number that ends with U7SA, U7SB or U7SC.

The press release states that the current batteries do not pose a safety risk, but just that they don't meet the "high standards" set by Apple.

24p and 30p together happily
 

Hi, FCPeers!
How do I put HDV 24p and 30p footage together on the same project? I've got some stuff that I want to look like behind the scenes (24p) and some stuff that looks on camera (30p). How can I have them in the same project?
Thanks!

Does Compressor use "Rendered" files?
 

Hi,

When I export out of FCP using compressor, I heard that Compressor does not use any of the rendered content (color correction, crossfades ect.) but instead re-renders the timeline as it's feeding the frames to Compressor.

If this is true, why? wouldn't it save time if compressor just used the data from the rendered files? Should I just stop rendering since these files will never be used except for playback?

Migrating to FCP - UK User - PAL
 

I am about to take the plunge and move from PC to MAC.

My camera is a Canon XL H1. I wish to edit my HDV material and archive it as HDV whilst outputting my projects in SD for the time being.
I have been liikung at a G5 with Quad cores, FCP Studio and a 1-2gb raid array.

My question is. What is the best method of getting my HDV footage into FCP and back out again? It appears that I can't just input my footage via firwire and pump it back to a recorder or the XL HD1.

Is there a site where I can find out more or, can anyone help?
Thanks
Ray.

Can FCP 5 and an Alesis multimix 8 be friends?
 

howdy all,

I am considering the purchase of an alesis multimix 8 firewire <http://www.alesis.com/product.php?id=40> and would love to use it to capture 6 discreet channels of audio using fcp 5. I have been unable to obtain a response from alesis about this. From what I could find, the computer recognizes the multimix as a sound card. I know I can do this using dedicated audio editors, but I prefer to streamline the workfolw and do it all in fcp. Any input would be much appreciated.

cheers

Premier into final cut?
 

Is there simple way of opening a premier timeline in final cut?

Changing capture from '1V, 2A' to '2A'
 

In FCP 3, if I logged some clips for batch capture and decided to just capture the audio, I could click on the 'Tracks' column of that clip and change '1V, 2A' to '2A.'

But if I try the same thing in FCP 5, I get the message 'No shortcuts.' The only option is to re-log clips. Yuck!

Is there a way to change this, to activate 'shortcuts'?

thanks,
lmr

60i - 24p in Final Cut Express?
 

I never really though of this until last night, but I know Final Cut Express does not support 24p so if I were to take 60i footage and covert it to 24p using Magic Bullet in after effects...then I would not be able to bring it back into FCE. Is this correct?

Audio monitoring during editing HD
 

Hello all, first post with (hopefully) a simple question for all you FCP users out there. Could somebody please confirm that FCP can output audio via firewire during editing HD footage. I'm currently using FCE, which cannot output audio via firewire during editing HD footage. This doesn't suit my needs, so I'm gonna go for Final Cut Studio, once I've received a definite answer to this, of course! I intend to use my MOTU 828 MkII to monitor the audio. Thanks, in advance, for your help.

Last-frame-freeze
 

Have anyone experienced (and perhaps know what to do with) last-frame-freeze?

I have a 1920x1080 timeline, MotionjpgA@75%. Suddenly i have some last-frame-freeze! Playback stops at last frame, and starts one or two clips later! Why is that? Someone know what to do? It's OK when exported to QT.

Apple DVCPROHD 1080i60 to Windows Friendly Format
 

What would be the best way, if any. that I could convert Apple DVCPROHD 1080i60 to a Windows friendly format?

Is it possible to Compress .DIVX - to same quality but smaller size
 

Hey mates,

This is my file: www.PumaTalk.com/spots/PumaTalk_Tennis.divx
It was edited all in FCP - but just having a hard time with the compression...

my issue is the following...

I use Sorenson Squeeze, to compress my clips...

I want to compress this small 30mb DIVX file to something smaller but still nice quality.... I tried to compress to MPG1 - MPG2 so I choose the CD format and put that video data rate @ 1000kps and it compresses to 47mb, but it looks too dark you cannot even see the tennis court or me playing tennis!!!! and I brought down the data rate to 500kps and still didnt' do anything but the file size was 27mb

Now Im tried compress @ cd MP4 and video rate 1000, so the file size is 24mb and less darker but still not 100% visible...

ahhh here is a screenshot of all 3 video clips...

www.pumatalk.com/spots/compression.png

from right to left

mpg4 = 24mb/1000kps video rate
mpg1 = 47mb/ 1000kps video rate
DIVX = 30mb

So the DIVX looks more clear then the others... just wondering if there is away i can still get that look...

Any other suggestions mates?
Many thanks for your reply mate,
Joey Dee

sync problem recorded music track
 

Hi,
I did a couple of recordings which have to be sync with a music track: We played a music track on a cd-player while recording. The actor is singing with this track. When i capture the takes there is a proportional sync difference (about 18 frames in 2 minutes).
I shot with a JVC HD100 in dv 50i mode. Captured it with another camera.

Is it possible there is a difference between these camera's or is it more likely the cd player is not the right speed?

fyi - QT 7.1.1 causes capture problems
 

I was tearing my hair out trying to downconvert HDV from a Sony A1U camera into Final Cut 5.1.1. It would control the playback and go through the motions of capturing, but nothing would be written to disk. HDV capture worked fine, but downconvert (which I hadn't used in a while, but worked in the past) would not work.

Finally updated to QT 7.1.2 and problem was solved.

Chuck

Trying to delete this post
 

How do I delete a post?

I am trying to delete this one... sorry!

A/V not sync in FCP
 

Hi,

After capturing clips with FCP from XL2 the audio and video is not into sync.

the audio is first for about 2 seconds.

what should I do?

thank u

jvc hdd and capty failure
 

i'm trying to install capty, which cme with this jvc everio camcorder i'm usein g, and it keeps saying "librarry not foundd" or some crazynes like that. anyone have same problem or know nything about it?

Capture problem with DVCPRO 50
 

The video plays fine in the log and capture window, but when I hit Capture Now (or try to batch capture), the clip preview is a freeze frame (as opposed to motion when it’s working properly) and only three seconds are imported, then I get the error message: encountered a problem reading the data on your source tape… It’s DVCPRO 50 footage from an AJ-SD93 to FCP via firewire. I’m using the Easy Setup “DVCPRO 50.” The mac is a dual 2 G5 and captures MiniDV from firewire fine. The deck and the these specific tapes run and can be captured by a PC based AVID system, but not by this mac. Spent two hours on phone with Apple and reinstalled and checked everything on the computer side and they swear it’s a problem with the deck. I’ve been through and through the decks menu and have varied all the options for 1394, and the input video button is set to 1394 as well. Anyone seen something like this/ have a suggestion?