Generational loss

Hi
A question about generational loss in quality. I want to make a showreel sometime in the future and im wondering if i save small sections from FCP projects as Quicktime movies with a view to importing them into FCP at a later date to add titles transitions and audio, will this mean any losses in quality due to the second encoding to mpeg2.
Alternatively is there any way to edit highights in FCP projects together with the corresponding captured media and gather it as a 'self contained' FCP project so to speak. I need to dump media once ive outputted to DVD.
With Thanks
D

If you captured using TIme Code, and you still have the (properly labeled) original tapes with no breaks in Time Code, you can safely trash your Media files as FCP will accurately recapture if needed in the future. But if you used Capture Now, without time code. you’ll need to preserve the original Media Files as they can’t be accurately re-captured.
All still images, Motion files, Titles etc etc should also be preserved in the same folder as your Project File.
If you just want to save your movie as it is, you can print to video - BUT . . . it will only give you an replica of the movie - there will be no clips to edit in the future and all transitions are embedded, so they can't be edited either.
If you had several audio tracks, they'll be boiled down to one track - so no editing there either.
Alternatively, use Media Manager to copy the project to one folder on an external drive - giving it a new name. (MM can move just the part of a long Media File that's needed - and junk the rest) .
This will free-up loads of space if you have large or duplicated Media Files.
Then, after you're satisfied that the new project will play from that drive, you can trash the original. But remember, MM won't copy Motion files etc etc - check that everything's there before you trash the original. I like to make certain of this by having the drive which contains the original, disconnected when playing back the copy. You can't be too certain!
Render files can be trashed as you can re-render at any time.
Hope this helps.
Andy
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Currently I have a bunch tracks that need to be exported in order for the mixing engineer to mix in his Protools program.
Problem: I did a lot of cutting and pasting with in the tracks. So there are spaces in a track that need silence added, so that when I export them into protools, all the tracks start at 0 (Time) and end at 3 minutes and 54 seconds.
What is the most efficient way to add this silence and ensure that every track is 3 minutes and 54 seconds long?

The duplication is unnecessary. Exporting creates a duplicate of the file. So now you'll have a duplicate of a duplicate. Exporting is not "working on" a file.
No it's not merging, it's exporting from one to the Finder and into another. No matter what lose something. If you export the Original you leave behind all the work you've done in iPhoto. If you export anything else, you lose the non-destructive editing and the ability to revert to the original. With merging you preserve that work. Yes, you can trash the old Library when you have completed the manoevre but no it's not the same thing as merging.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue. But in brief:
Current gets you the iPhoto Preview, used for sharing via media browsers. It's a jpg, medium quality missing metadata. Original gets the file you imported, unchanged and then you can export different version of the current version at different qualities. If you choose to export anything except the Original you do not get a Raw. There's no such thing as an "edited Raw", and you lose the connection between the original and the exported version. That means you've taken a non-destructive workflow and turned it into a destructive one.
The Tiff will certainly be higher qulaity and less likely to suffer generational loss in future editing but the file sizes are vast, often more than 10 times the size of the jpeg.
Put it this way, it would be cheaper to buy Library Manager than the disk you'll need to contain all the Tiffs. Unless you plan on a lot of editing, I'd go for a high quality jpeg as a reasonable compromise.
To be clear:
So, I guess my new question is, how can I edit the Raw image and keep it in a RAW format that IPhoto recognizes so that I can reprocess without any loss at a future time, or is it that once you edit a RAW image, then it is no longer a RAW image?
Once you edit a Raw it can no longer be a Raw. End of.

FBRA not giving option to reset

Good afternoon experts,
When clearing customer payments/invoices, a line is created in BSEG for 'foreign currency gain/loss', with transaction key 'KDF'. Despite the fact that the amount being posted here is 0, we are told that 'exchange rate differences exist', and we're unable to reset via FBRA. One of our ABAPers sees that the 'reset' option is not given if the 'KDF' transaction key is present...but I would think it would be based on whether or not there is an exchange rate amount.
Thanks so much.
Matt

Hello Matt,
System generate loss/gain account for differences when your clearing accounts. In document currency amount or local currency amount, you see 0,00 amount but did you check parallel currencies amount?
Because, system generated a loss/gain account line item when clearing, there must be a difference in local currency or paralel currencies amount.
Further you can reverse clearing document which is in KDF line item on document. What's system returns while reversing?
Regards,
Burak

Attaching audio and editing M2V files

I have about 200 M2V files that were provided to me for use in a Final Cut Pro project. They originated from about six different HDV cameras in 1080i60. The clips were captured to a PC running some version of Pinnacle software on-site at an event. Each M2V file has no sound, but is accompanied by a pair of WAV files. Left and right channels. I have MPEG Streamclip to transcode the clips, but the problem I am having is figuring out how to get the audio attached so that it can be edited. Also, I'm wondering if this can be done without transcoding with generational loss. Since they are HDV files, can they be converted to Quicktime HDV wrapper? Can anyone shed any light on this for me? Thanks.

What are the pixel dimensions of the m2v files? They should open in quicktime player and you should be able to check there. Some compression/conversion utilities allow you to attach audio files during the encoding. Don't think compressor will do it. I will see if Squeeze will do it, if you like, but Squeeze costs money.

Pr 2014 picking up an extra frame during export

I need to export every clip in a sequence as it's own file. I select an In/Out for the clip with an X and ask for an export on that portion. Some of them will get the last frame of the preceding clip tagged on to the front of the export. I thought it was AME doing this but it's a Pr problem.
I have footage shot at 59.94 which gets exported to 29.97. IF the clip marked In/Out for export starts on an odd frame, it gets the extra frame from the preceding clip. If it starts on an even frame, no problem.

Aside from ProRes being designed for editing, the short answer is that ProRes is a much less compressed, intra-frame codec and mp4 is a highly compressed codec which I believe is long GOP. You can Wiki the difference, but mp4 is designed for deliverables such as web uploads. The file sizes are small due to the compression.
ProRes is compressed, but not nearly as much, and the intra-frame nature of the codec makes for easy editing.
The real issue is that neither FCP nor Motion really like non-editing codecs like mp4, h.264, m2v. You may be able to get it to work, but more often than not, you'll just be setting yourself up for frustration.
While there will be slight quality loss from converting your video, it's not as drastic as analog generational loss. Chances are very good that you can go from mp4 to prores, back to mp4, and not be able to see any quality loss by eye.
Even in the digital world, it's best to start off with the highest quality master you can get your hands on, so that when you're working, you suffer the least amount of quality loss. But the state of compressors these days is so good as to allow us to work with lower res files and still finish with a quality that is extremely close, if not indistinguishable from the source.
Hope this helps.
Andy

MP4 picture lag?

I am using PP CC on Windows 7 to edit AVCHD footage from a Panasonic AC130. I have had some problems with lost audio, so, as an experiment, I rewrapped some AVCHD footage in an MP4 file, using AW Pro. The footage plays back fine in Windows Media Player, but it doesn't import properly into Premiere or Prelude. In both cases, the audio runs about 12 minutes, which is the correct length, but the picture runs about 14 minutes, which is two minutes too long, and it is out of sync with the audio.
Has anyone else come across this sort of problem? Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the response. In fact, what you suggest is what I generally do. But I have had occasional problems with lost audio, and I do collaborative work with FCP users. As you probably know, FCP doesn't natively ingest AVCHD.
The re-wrap that I described in my original post has some appeal because it is not a conversion. AW Pro copies H.264 content from an AVCHD wrapper, to an MP4 or MOV wrapper, without a decompress/recompress cycle. It creates theaders, then copies the H.264 content from AVCHD to the new format. File size remains about the same; as a result, it costs nothing in terms of storage or quality.
So, while I would generally agree with the approach you suggest, a rewrap with no generational loss of quality provides significant benefits in my workflow. And that's the reason I'm trying to solve the problem of the picture frame lag.

Generational loss

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