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Blown Highlights fix
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So I’m having the same issue with using the Captain Blowout Fixer on a ProRes422 HQ timeline. Ive tried knocking the sequence settings down to both 8 bit and RGB and it still causes the playback to be jumpy and pixelated. Is there still not a work-around for this?
I’m using a late 2008 Macbook Pro with Final Cut Studio 2. I have received the “graphics card sequence size” warning while using other effects. I have the 256mb Nvidia graphics card. Could this be the problem? Any solution would be highly appreciated.
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Sounds like you need to render it…
Patrick
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Unfortunately, I had already rendered the entire timeline. The clips that I had the Captains Blowout Fixer on it went from red to a light blue, whereas the other clips remained green. … I exported my timeline using current settings and watched it in Quicktime with the same jumpy/jittery results. The clip plays just fine without the plugin activated, so is there anything else that I could be missing? … I absolutely love the ability of this plugin and could not be happier with the results except for this playback issue.
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I’m unsure what you mean by jittery/jumpy… are you sure you did a ⌘0 and reset the render settings for your timeline to 8 bit?
Patrick
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By jittery and jumpy, I mean there is no smoothness to the playback whatsoever. It looks like it stalls every other second like when you have a dropped frame issue. The footage also becomes very pixelated and suffers terribly in quality. … I did go into the Video Processing tab and tried the playback on both 8 bit and RGB with the same results. I also tried opening the FCP Project onto a different MBP and still have the same issue. … Thank you so much for your help with find a solution to this situation!
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By jittery and jumpy, I mean there is no smoothness to the playback whatsoever. It looks like it stalls every other second like when you have a dropped frame issue. The footage also becomes very pixelated and suffers terribly in quality. … I did go into the Video Processing tab and tried the playback on both 8 bit and RGB with the same results. I also tried opening the FCP Project onto a different MBP and still have the same issue. … Thank you so much for helping me try and find a solution to this!
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I’m sorry – once the footage is rendered and exported, your playback is not affected by any plugins that were on the original clips. Can you post an example of the problematic clip?
Patrick
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Alright. So after playing around with this a little more, I think I may have it narrowed down to it possibly being a setting within my FCP. When I tried to export the problematic clip along with a bit of the surrounding clips so you could see the issue. Upon playback of the exported clip, it caused all clips to do the jittery/dropped frame style look. I went and exported using QT Conversion and made my own settings, it caused playback to be fine within all clips except for a slight pixelated look to everything. My question now turns to what should my proper export settings be to remedy all of this? My sequence settings are: 23.98fps, 1920 x 1080, Apple ProRes 422. … I know this isn’t the proper place for this question but none of this seemed to arise to my attention until after the Blowout Fixer was applied. Thanks again for all the help.
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Can you post an example clip – are you sure it’s stuttering? – you are running 24fps…
Patrick Sheffield
Sheffield Softworks
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