MetaCheater Utility

[feeonac]

I was using a p25 project because to start with we were told it would all be shot 25fps. We;re hoping to stay in p25 because we are already so far into the project and have started assembly, so changing to p50 now would be a real hassle.

Also I opened a p50 project and imported the footage. it had the same problem. doubling the speed still didn;t match the sound?

I;ve attached the metacheater settings we;re using in case i;m doing something daft!

Thanks

Fiona

[Jabez Olssen]

Despite the need for MetaCheater having been basically killed off (at least in a RED/Avid workflow) by Redline/RedRushes' ALE abilities... I've updated it. :)

MetaCheater v1.5 now available at www.staticpictures.com/metacheater

you can now find and replace within the 'Name' column, so you can add other suffixes besides ".mov", such as ".wav"

Also the options for the Tape and Camroll columns have been improved

And you add the same entered Start Timecode to all the clips by clicking 'Fill all Start TCs'

I think that's about it.

cheers

-Jabez

[MichaelP]

Thanks Jabez! Still lots of uses for MetaCheater in a VFX/Feature animation workflow though... How are things down under?

Michael

[Jabez Olssen]

Thanks Jabez! Still lots of uses for MetaCheater in a VFX/Feature animation workflow though... How are things down under?

Michael

Good! Busy though and its getting cold down here. How's Boston?

[Dylan Reeve]

I haven't actually tried the ALE thing from REDline or RedRushes yet, I'm still using MetaCheater... :)

[MichaelP]

REDrushes is very straighforward and allows both timecodes from the R3D files to be tracked. Does not do SD conversions, so all work is assumed to be at native rates - so if shooting 24fps or 23.976 it is an HD based post.

Michael

[Rocco Schult]

Despite the need for MetaCheater having been basically killed off (at least in a RED/Avid workflow) by Redline/RedRushes' ALE abilities... I've updated it. :)
...
I think that's about it.

cheers

-Jabez

Jabez, still your work is very much appreciated and the fact that you did it for the rest of us (and for free) is unbeatable.

Rock on mate.

[jamedia]

KOedit, I get the same problem. Not on a unity either. All working from a MAC. Generated all proxies (_p) with red2wrapper, then ALE with Meta Cheater v1.4
Import into Avid... no problem. But then I select 'select offline items' and they all highlight!!!
MC3.0 on a MACpro desktop running Leopard.