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  • Titles and dissolves won’t play w/o rendering

    Posted by Dave Gardner on January 10, 2007 at 9:33 pm

    This must be the result of trashing preferences and not setting something properly, but suddenly my system won’t play a simple livetype title w/o rendering. Nor will it show me a dissolve. My sequence preset is DV:NTSC 48KHz. I looked at my livetype project settings and they were on CCIR 601 NTSC 40.27. Thinking I’d found the problem I changed to NTSC DV 3:2 and resaved the projects. But the problem persists in FCP. Sorry if this problem has been posted before. I searched and searched and couldn’t find anything. Any suggestions? Even an older project suddenly won’t play back a simple super. My playback is set for RT:Safe and Video Quality: dynamic. I’m using a Firewire (800) drive with a G5 with 2MB RAM. Worked fine for over a year, but now I’ve got something goofed up. Help!

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta

    Dave Gardner replied 19 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 5 Replies

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  • Dave Gardner

    January 10, 2007 at 9:41 pm

    More info: I am importing the livetype project files, not rendering them out in Livetype. And I just changed the Livetype preview to normal instead of draft quality, but that did not make a difference.

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


    Main Office:
    760 Wycliffe Drive
    Colorado Springs,

  • Dave Gardner

    January 11, 2007 at 4:44 am

    Hope this is revealing. The rendered mov clip still must be rendered before it will play back in the timeline!

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


    Main Office:
    760 Wycliffe Drive
    Colorado Springs,

  • Dave Gardner

    January 11, 2007 at 5:58 am

    Okay, here are more symptoms that are very interesting. I can play back these livetype titles nicely by hitting option p. Once I render the sequence, the titles are extremely fuzzy.

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


    Main Office:
    760 Wycliffe Drive
    Colorado Springs,

  • Dave Gardner

    January 11, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    I appreciate the suggestion, however…I’ve tried changing the livetype project settings with no change in results. And, I’ve even opened old projects that had no problems before and now they have this problem – with their original graphics that always played fine in real time. Total mystery!

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


    Main Office:
    760 Wycliffe Drive
    Colorado Springs,

  • Dave Gardner

    January 11, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    Tried every possible Livetype setting with no success. trashed prefs in fcp with no success. same behavior

    Dave Gardner
    Producer/Director/Writer
    Visions West
    Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
    Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


    Main Office:
    760 Wycliffe Drive
    Colorado Springs,

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