• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Red line

  Posted by Autorecall2003@yahoo.co.uk on January 28, 2006 at 12:24 am

  Hi,

  I have a new empty sequence. When I put material on it it gets a red line and I have to render before I can playback.

  The raw material will playback ok from the viewer. It’s PAL 8bit uncompressed captured from digibeta via a aja or a blackmagic card at a posthouse. It also plays back fine directly in quicktime from the HD. I use the internal HD.

  The sequence is uncompressed 8 bit pal 48khz. Project is on the same HD.

  Videoplayback is set to Blackmagic PAL 8 bit via a blackmagic pro card to a SDI monitor and works fine.

  When I threw a mp3 onto the timeline I also had to render it first.

  Why do I get a red line when I throw a videotrack onto it??

  Autorecall2003@yahoo.co.uk replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Matthew Brunn

  January 28, 2006 at 5:07 am

  Your timeline settings don’t match your video that is on the timeline. BM should have an easy setup for the project that matches your footage. Use that so you don’t have to set everything manually.

  The mp3 will always need to render.

  BTW never use the system hard-drive. Really not a good idea. Always put your media on a separate drive. Make sure that drive is formated HFS+ Extended but NOT journaled! The system drive must be journaled but journaling will cause issues down the road with media.

  Hope this helps-
  Matthew
  Dual 500 G4
  OSX 10.3.9
  Ram 1.38
  FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3
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  Autorecall2003@yahoo.co.uk

  January 28, 2006 at 8:48 am

  Now I tried to set it up via easy setup

  A/V settings
  sequence preset : BM pal 8bit
  Capture preset : MB pal 8bit
  Device control preset : Pal 25Hz
  Video playback : BM pal 8bit
  Audio playback : Decklink audio

  Sequence settings :
  Frame size : 720×576
  Aspect ratio : CCIR 601 / DV pal 5:4
  Pixel aspect ratio : Pal CCIR 601
  Field dominance : Lower
  Timebase : 25

  Quicktime video settings:
  Compressor : Uncompressed 8 bit
  Quality : 100%

  The material captured is CCIR 601 pal and has a upper field. I trid to set the field in the sequence to upper, but I still get a red line. The material captured has a compressor – uncompressed 8bit 4:2:2

  So, I still get the red line. Everything seems to be ok.

  Wouldent it be better to use a codec uncompressed rather that BM? If I have to send some clips to Shake or other programs.

  Ok, I get the thing about not using the system HD. I can just use the firewire HD but it is a little slower. Otherwise I will buy a new internal HD for editing SD.

  Hope that you can help me.
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  Autorecall2003@yahoo.co.uk

  January 28, 2006 at 9:06 am

  Now I made a new project and started from scratch with the material moved to another firewire HD.

  And everything workes fine now.

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