Apple acknowledges 720p capture bug (subclips) in FCP 5

[Walter Biscardi]

[Joe Murray] “I know some people get all hyped about more RT with various formats, alpha channels, etc. but if it’s going to look as bad as FCP’s RT looks right now,”

FCP uses “Dynamic RT” which essentially means we’ll drop the image quality so you can keep working with more effects in real-time. It’s a trade-off and not an entirely bad one depending on your workflow. I really don’t find it to be a problem.

CineWave’s RT was final quality RT.

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[Oliver Peters]

>>Are Avid’s resolution independent now<< Avids are not res-ind, but you can use the Pan & Zoom plug-in to work with higher-res stills on the TL. You can drop in RT stills with alphas if they match the TL resolution. You have "dynamic" RT to mix Avid codecs and DVCPRO 50/100 codecs as well as RT mix/up/down conversion on the TL (preview) of SD/HD on some of the software based systems. Symphony Nitris (hardware) does this at true broadcast quality without rendering. For what it's worth, Axio also does this at a lower price point under Premiere Pro. Sincerely, Oliver Oliver Peters Post-Production & Interactive Media Orlando, FL http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Jb]

Came across this issue with a friend’s session who had only 40 master clips and an existing 2 minute timeline (edit) in progress.

It worked! And got him through this crazy bug that even Apple Pro Support couldn’t help solve.

Although this may not work for everyone’s situation, it helped us solve our problem and can hopefully help others that are in a similar situation.

Here’s what we did:

1) Took down/screen captured the bin info that contained all the master clips’ names and timecodes (“Media Start” column).

2) Opened the clips in Quicktime (at the finder level) and deleted the timecode track.

3) Reconnected the clips in FCPro (eventhough the timecode was then reset to 00:00:00:00).

4) Modified/Reset the starting timecode of each master clip back to the original timecode (based on the info from step1).

I hope this helps others the way it helped us.

Good luck,

Joe E. Botana
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