• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Real Time Render Capabilities Question

  Posted by Abbi Jutkowitz on March 25, 2010 at 4:39 pm

  Hello,

  I come from Avid-land, so please bear with me…

  I am working on a feature film and would like to be able to crash record my 2 hour cut to a DVD Recorder. I need to put a “Property of” burn in/watermark over all picture though, and would like to be able to crash record without rendering the title. I use Boris Title 3D because I need to have a drop shadow. (FCP text with drop shadow changes my render level to orange/unlimited). I render everything under the watermark, and collapse all multi-clips, etc. But when I play out the sequence I quickly lose sync. After about 15 minutes I am out by 1-12 frames, things look very rubbery–only on the plasma I’m monitoring the DVD on, though. FCP Canvas looks fine.

  I can’t tell if I am exceeding my machines capabilities (I hope not, specs below) or if I have a wrong setting somewhere. Any words of advice would be much appreciated.

  System Specs:
  Mac Pro 2×2.26 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
  RAM is 6gb 1066 MHz DDR3
  OS 10.6.2
  Kona LHi driver 7.5.1 with breakout box
  FCP 7.0.2 working with ProRes 422 (Proxy) footage
  Panasonic TC-P42S1 1080p TV (using HDMI in from Kona box)
  Panasonic DMR-EZ28 DVD Recorder

  My sequence setting match my clip settings, and my seq settings is AJA Kona LHi 1080psf 23.98 Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy). My Playback setting is 1080p rather than psf since that’s the only way I can get it to show up on the monitor. Kona said it should still play in sync with the seq. and playback settings being different. Does this sound correct? Any ideas?

  Thanks,
  Abbi

  Abbi Jutkowitz replied 16 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  John Fishback

  March 25, 2010 at 5:41 pm

  Your Kona probably allows you to key a title over the signal in real time. My Kona 3 does. Look in the Kona Control Panel for the DS Keyer tab.

  John

  MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
  FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.1, Motion 4.0.1, Comp 3.5.1, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.1)

  Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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  Abbi Jutkowitz

  March 26, 2010 at 8:28 pm

  Wow, I never knew that option was there. Fantastic! Thanks for the tip.
  What do people who don’t have Kona cards do, though? If you’re just laying off via firewire you wouldn’t need a Kona card–layoff via firewire still? How do people handle burn-in in that case?

  thanks,
  abbi

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