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can’t see clips unless rendered
My clients are digitizing some material that I will eventually edit. They have digitized a couple of test clips and have found that they cannot play them in the viewer or a sequence unless they are rendered.
Here are the facts: They are using FCP 4.5 on a Quicksilver G4 1Ghz dual with 1 Gb RAM, running OS 10.3.9. The clips were digitized over Firewire at DV50. Some are DV50 anamorphic. They play in Quicktime from the Finder just fine. When loaded in the viewer, you can hear the audio, but not see the video until you’re paused on a frame. The viewer window is set to “fit to window,” and set to view RGB. If the viewer window is set to 100% or above, the video plays, but jerkily.
Anyone have any clues about this? What would cause a clip not to play in the Viewer? Thanks for any help.cc
Peace,
Liane -
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The sequence settings need to match the clip settings. Obviously they do not.
When you start a project you need to choose an EASY SETUP that matches the format you will be capturing…then delete Sequence 1. That contains the OLD settings. Create a new sequence and things should work fine.
All this nonsense goes away with FCP 6.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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I told them we’d tweak the sequence preset so that it will work. But being unable to play clips in the Viewer was a major part of the problem. Does the sequence preset affect this?
Meanwhile, clients tested on a G5 system, running the data drive into a FW 800 port. That works for viewing in the viewer. Could it be just that they were underpowered for DV50 playback? (Original system G4 dual 1 Ghz, 1Gb RAM.)
Peace,
Liane -
Aren’t you excited to have to stop explaining this? I can’t wait! FCP6 shipping in 2-3 weeks!!!
-Russ
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