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Image changes when play head is stopped
Hey guys, I have an interesting problem. Working with some footage shot on a RED One. Working on a 10-Bit uncompressed timeline. Just finished doing some work in color. Brought the clips back into FCP. Now when the playhead is stopped, the images shift to a darker color. Any ideas what this would be? Specs below.
3.0 Ghz 8-core Intel Mac Pro OSX 10.4.11
14GB Ram
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This stock answer applies to footage BRIGHTENING as well. FCP lowers the resolution to enable smooth playback…
#2 Blurry Playback
Shane’s Stock Answer #2: Blurry playback
ONLY JUDGE THE QUALITY OF YOUR MATERIAL ON AN EXTERNAL BROADCAST MONITOR, OR AT LEAST A TV.
The Canvas shows you what happens after the codec you are working with has been applied. The Viewer shows you the material in its native format. Once you drop the footage from the Viewer into the timeline, it inherits the attributes of the sequence. If it is a DV sequence, the footage will render out as DV.
1. Disable overlays on the Canvas.
2. Make sure you’ve rendered everything (no green bars at the top of the timeline).
Video playback requires large amounts of data and many computations. In order to maintain frame rate and be viewable at a normal size, only about one-fourth of the DV data is used in displaying the movie to the screen. However, the DV footage is still at full quality, and is best viewed thru a TV or broadcast monitor routed thru your camera or deck.
Shane
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I have my footage playing through a Panasonic HD Broadcast monitor, and a 50 Pioneer Kuro client monitor, and mirrored on the canvas. Images changes on both monitors, but remains the same on the canvas.
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Well, where is your media stored? are your drives fast enough to handle this RED footage?
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We have our media stored on a Mac RAID. Plays no problem, the only problem is once the footage is stopped.
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What is a “Mac Raid?” Internal drives raided using the Apple RAID card? How many drives? What drive speeds?
The image you see when paused IS the full quality image as it exists. When you play the quality is being lowered…
Shane
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It might be called the xServe Raid, it’s a rack mount RAID connected to my MAC via Fiber Channel. The image that it displayed when the playhead is stopped is not the right image. That is not what I made my image look like in color.
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Ahhh…there we go.
Hmmm….well I can’t explain that then. I hope someone else can.
Shane
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Do you have “Range Check” turned on? If so then please turn it off and report back as to whether the issue is resolved or not.
Cheers
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Range check was turned off.
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This might be FCP misinterpreting the gamma of the material. It might be a codec conflict between AJA or Black magic and the Apple uncompressed codec. I haven’t seen this in a long time, though. If you have one of these capture cards, try removing the codec you don’t use temporarily and see if that solves it.
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