• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVCPRO HD timeline movie issue!

  Posted by Ben Avechuco on July 26, 2007 at 7:38 am

  I’ve just completed an 8 episode series and it is time to archive parts.

  We waited to upgrade to FinalCut Studio 2 until I was finished with the shows.

  After the upgrade, I find that if I output my DVCPRO HD timeline (using current settings or DVCPRO HD-1080i60 setting) as a quicktime movie, then bring it back in to FCP, it needs rendering.

  FCP is telling me the movie is now 1920×1080 – square pixels.
  Quicktime player is telling me the movie is 1280×1080 playing back at 1920×1080 (as it should be).

  I’m on a quad G5 system with 8 gigs of RAM. Another quad G5 system in house does the same thing when I tested it, but our brand new Dual-2 core system exports/imports correctly.

  We use a AJA KONA LHe card in all 3 systems and have the currect drivers installed.
  I’ve been troubleshooting with AJA but it happens independent of the card settings.

  Sounds to me like the metadata for the movie is interpreted wrong by final cut, but I’ve tried every combination I can think of to correct this, but it hasn’t worked!

  Help! Has anyone else delt with this?

  Ben Avechuco
  Producer/Director (EDITOR!)
  EIGHT / KAET-TV / azpbs.org
  Phoenix, AZ

  Joe Langenfeld replied 18 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 26, 2007 at 8:04 am

  I keep hearing about this issue and it perplexes me. Because when I prepare my shows for output (DVCPRO HD 720p 23.98), I color correct the main timeline, shot by shot. Then I export a self contained QT movie and reimport it, create a new sequence using the DVCPRO HD 720p24 Easy Setup (same throughout the entire project) and it goes into the timeline…no rendering. I then add the Broadcast Safe filter (because of all the transitions I do that go outside LEGAL limits) and I get the dark green render bar…and then render. But that part is normal.

  I look at the movie in QT…and it plays full widescreen. I get info, and it says 1280×720. I import that into FCP and FCP sees it as 960×720.

  Sorry if this is no help at all.

  Shane
  
  Littlefrog Post
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Joe Langenfeld

  July 26, 2007 at 4:31 pm

  I’ve noticed that if you have a real time effect, like a dissolve, your sequence QT export re-imports as 1280. Removing the effect, or hard rendering the effect, and then exporting, reimport is 960…

  So it’s got something to do with effects and rendering…

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