importing 24p 2:3:3:2???
 

Hey guys,
Here is the thing, I shot a short film on Canon XL2 in 24p, 2:3:3:2 advanced mode and I’m importing the image to FCP now. My question is, since I previously had captured and edited 60i footage (for different, previous projects, I mean) and my FCP is already set for 60i, do I need change some settings before capturing my new 24p footage or do I need to stay with old settings?
thanks
Vic

Problems conforming 1080i50 to 23.98fps with Cinema Tools
 

I need to conform my 1080i50 footage to 23.98fps but Cinema Tools doesn't conform it. <if I conform an SD 50i or 60i footage it works perfectly, but I need to do it with the HDV!>

The file goes to "skipped" folder instead of "conformed" one.

Does anybody now what's happening and how can I sort it out?

thanks

How well does FCP mix interlaced and progressive HDV footage?
 

Is anyone mixing interlaced and progressive footage on a FCP 5 timeline? Would you set the timeline up for progressive or interlaced settings? Would there be any loss in quality? I'm specifically wondering how well the true progressive of the JVC HD100 would combine with the "faux" progressive of the Canon A1.

Advanced Pulldown Problem in FCP 5.1.2
 

Using FCP 5.1.2

Capturing from a JVC BRHD50.

Footage is 24PA

The problem is this:

FCP will not allow me to remove advanced pulldown. I get the following error message when I try to capture with the advanced pulldown setting:

"Clips with broken VFR/Pulldown Cadence"

Which, afterwards does not even capture the clip. My logged clip remains offline.

And I get this error message after I capture NTSC Anamorphic and try to removed pulldown using Tools>Advanced Pulldown removal:

"! Break in Advanced Pulldwon Cadence (pattern) found near t."

All of my un pulldown removed footage after capture looks like it has some dropped frames and every so often there appear to be digital hits (which are not on the tapes because they are inconsistant).

Does anyone know what's going on?

Does anyone know a good filter rig to get rid of Vertical Banding ?
 

Life Sucks!!!

http://www.fdivisions.com/trash/vert_b.jpg


I'm on After Effects btw...



******EDIT******

sorry i got confuse, i thought it was call "vertical smear"

Audio peaks in FCP takes a looong time to build
 

Hi there,

For some reasons the audio peaks in my current projects takes an awful long time to build. Granted the project is is 50 minutes long all in one take but the peaks will constantly build and rebuild.

I am pretty green in àFCP so please be gentle

Thanks

Storing Video footage for project collaboration?
 

I'm a little courious about what would be the best way to store video for collaboration. Here is the situation we have now.

Let's say that we had captured just regular DV footage of an event and we have to use two DVD's to put all the video of the day on there. The video files are stored on an external firewire hard drive. One person is working on getting the video edited for disk one, however, if the other person wants to work at the same time on another station to get the video edited for disk two, they can't edit the video stored on the external hard drive over the network, because whenever this happens, both computers bog down whenever they try to scrub through the video in FCP. I'm wondering what the bottleneck is, and what we can do to solve this problem. Both computers are relativly fast, such as a PowerMac G5 and a MacBook Pro.


We've tried to see if the problem is just the firewire vs 10/100 ethernet, but we hooked up both computers using Gigabit, and this doesn't solve the problem, so perhaps the problem is the fact that the hard drive in the firewire enclosure is only a PATA hard drive. However, even if we went to a SATA enclosure, the bottleneck would still be the firewire connection.

So, I guess what I'm looking for is some kind of one place to store all of our video that is both fast enough for two editors to be editing the same video at the same time. I started thinking that maybe we could have a computer with several hard drives set up in a RAID 0 configuration for high speed access, but I really want some kind of redundancy (especially after having to use external firewire hard drives to store the video), so I'd really like to have some kind of RAID 5 setup.

Then I started thinking that maybe we would have one server that had several hard drives that were setup in a RAID 0 configuration, and this would be the computer that the editors would look at to get their footage, and then an identical computer that was set up in a RAID 5 configuration as a mirror for all of the video files and project files. Like have them both run linux and run a file mirroring script to update the files whenever a file is changed. But that would still be out of our budget.

I'm just thinking out loud, but what we don't have a budget for a rack mounted video storage solution, so that's why I was trying to figure out what would be the best way to store the video that is both fast and secure.

How do you guys store your video when collaborating on a project?

JVC SR-DVM70 Deck???
 

Does anyone have any experience using this deck? I would be using it with FCP on a apple. Thanks

RAID Setup
 

I just took delivery on my new Mac Pro, very sexy.

I have an additional TB of internal storage that I want to RAID, one of the options in disk utilities is how big to set the block size, 32, 64, 128 etc.

What block size gives the best performance for uncompressed SD and DVCProHD?