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choking on DVCProHD???
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Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
steve covello
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Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
steve covello
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Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
steve covello
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Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
steve covello
double wide post -
Is there a remote chance that your Viewer/Canvas windows are NOT set to FIT TO WINDOW? That’ll do it too.
No mention of whether an imported QT has to be rendered [red line] in your sequence first before playing. I assume not. If so, your render specs and FCP playback specs are not compatible.
Also, were the G-Tech drives formatted as Mac HFS Extended before being used in the edit system? I believe GTech drives come out of the box as such, but I will not assume this is so all the time. If you open Disk Utility and select the volume in question, it should say the drive format somewhere at the bottom left. If it is anything but Mac HFS Extended, then there may be performance problems, and shouyld be erased and reformatted. Had a guy have problems like this before where 8-bit SD would not play on a borrowed drive and it was because it was formatted for PC.
steve covello
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[2lucid4] “My compositions are 1920×1080, 29.97 and I rendered them out upper field first with the DVCProHD codec.”
This is not the correct frame size for DVCPRO HD, which is an anamorphic format.
If you are rendering these compositions in After Effects, you should be using the DVCPROHD 1080/29.97 preset, which will give you a frame size of 1280 x 1080.
If you somehow “manually” created a custom larger frame size with the DVCPROHD codec, it will not play properly.
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[2lucid4] “My compositions are 1920×1080, 29.97 and I rendered them out upper field first with the DVCProHD codec.”
This is not the correct frame size for DVCPRO HD, which is an anamorphic format.
If you are rendering these compositions in After Effects, you should be using the DVCPROHD 1080/29.97 preset, which will give you a frame size of 1280 x 1080.
If you somehow “manually” created a custom larger frame size with the DVCPROHD codec, it will not play properly.
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[2lucid4] “My compositions are 1920×1080, 29.97 and I rendered them out upper field first with the DVCProHD codec.”
This is not the correct frame size for DVCPRO HD, which is an anamorphic format.
If you are rendering these compositions in After Effects, you should be using the DVCPROHD 1080/29.97 preset, which will give you a frame size of 1280 x 1080.
If you somehow “manually” created a custom larger frame size with the DVCPROHD codec, it will not play properly.
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Whew!
I downloaded Kona’s VTR XChange app and my DVCPro renders look beautiful.
I was hoping they had their own app. I have a Blackmagic at home and tend to use their native viewer to watch animations since I’m not needing to edit anything.So, I don’t know what I am doing wrong with the Final Cut settings though. I’d still like to figure that out.
I started a new project with the Easy SetUp of Kona LH- 1080i 29.97 DVCProHD.
I imported a DVCProHD animation and the image looks the same in both the viewer and the canvas. The motion is still stuttering.I wanted to try a fresh project with captured video rather than the rendered animations.
We tried connecting an HD camera to digitize from (the decks are out on jobs), but weren’t able to get either Final Cut or XChange to recognize the video source.Thanks sooo much for all the help.
I have what I need to continue working. I will continue try to help their guy here try to figure out the Final Cut issue though. -
Forgive me if I’m mistaken here, I stumbled onto this post while researching the use of a Kona with After Effects…
Can’t you monitor your animations directly inside of After Effects? I was under the impression AE could output through the KONA card to a monitor for checking.
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