Thanks for the prompt reply! I will take a look a some of these resources. But at the moment I’m under deadline so I’m moving ahead with some workarounds.
A brief outline of my situation in case it helps:
I’m working on a film score, and need to add some streamers and punches. These are basically just shapes that overlay the film. A green bar rolls from left to right across the screen, and when it gets to the right side, an orange circle flashes. These are used to help musicians sync their performer to the picture. (sorry if you already know that)
Here’s a video of how to do them in Vegas:
I don’t have Vegas, but I have used Shotcut for several other video editing tasks. I was quickly able to figure out how to get the same result in Shotcut by cropping color swatches and using keyframes to move the crop around. It’s a lot easier than what this guy is doing in the video. Shotcut is great!!
Workflow:
My producer provides me his film file in 23.976FPS.
The film is exported from Adobe Premiere
I drop it into Logic Pro X
In Logic, I spot the film and place markers for key events in the music.
I use the time codes from the list of markers to decide where to put my streamers.
Now I open Shotcut and build the streamers according to the timecodes I decided in Logic.
The problem is, when I type those timecodes into Shotcut, I land on a different frame.
Honestly, I was only able to look briefly through these resources because I need to get these streamers in and prep for the recording session. The technical challenges here make sense, especially given “there is no Drop Frame standard for 23.98fps."
But I will say that when my producer gives me a timecode from Adobe Premiere and I type it into Logic we always land on the same frame. And vice versa. If the same applied to Shotcut, it would really help this workflow!
For now, the producer gave me a copy of the film with the timecode burnin, and I’ll use that to place my events in shotcut, disregarding shotcuts timecodes. It will work well enough for this scene.
But if this is solveable I’d be very interested in making the workflow that much cleaner.
Can you give more details about what you mean by the “Convert to Edit Friendly” conversion? I haven’t done something like that in Shotcut before.
Thanks again for the prompt reply. Sorry I haven’t had a chance to review all that material thoroughly. I will after this recording session comes and goes. But I did want to quickly get back to you with exactly what I’m trying to do in case it helps lead toward a simple solution.
