1920 x 1080 in viewer and canvas

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1920 x 1080 in viewer and canvas

Posted by Enge on May 15, 2007 at 12:23 pm

Hey,
having my first foray into proper HD here and have caught a snag, hope someone can help.
I have source footage, Sony HDcam 10bit Uncompressed 1920x1080i, which is reflected in my easy set-up, so the capture and sequence are right. I’ve droppped my clip onto the timeline and it doesn’t need a render, so that’s good…
Problem is, when I put the clip into the viewer or the sequence is viewed in the canvas window, because of it’s sheer size, I’m getting this weird stepping and a poor refresh rate within these windows. I’ve scaled the footage up to 100% and it plays fine, it unfortunatley takes up my whole monitor! I’m hoping I’ve missed something that will cure this, say, in the view menu or something…I’m running:

Quad G5
FCP 5.1.2
Kona3
Quadro FX 4500

Thanks in advance,

Enge

Bbalser replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Walter Biscardi
May 15, 2007 at 12:27 pm

Set your Viewer and Canvas to “Fit to Window.”

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Enge
May 15, 2007 at 12:45 pm

Hi Walter,
tried that, still choking. I’ve taken the same footage clip in at DVCPro HD and it plays fine, I can only think the video card is choking on the datarate and having to re-size at the same time…

Thanks for your speedy reply by the way…
Bbalser
May 15, 2007 at 1:23 pm

What Mac are you on, how much RAM, what’s your hard drive configuration? These all directly impact playback. Also, what are your RT settings? Try switching to Safe RT.

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Enge
May 15, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Quad G5 4.5Gigs of Ram
Hard Drive config, not that sure, I’ve got the boot disc, then all my media is stored on a 70TB X-san over fibre.
Always work in Safe RT
Bbalser
May 15, 2007 at 2:30 pm

Well, uncompressed does require every ounce of horsepower your system has to playback. Make sure your RT settings are all also set to “Dynamic”. Nothing else I can think of. I’d also run it by your xSAN technician, see what he thinks.

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