~> FCP 5 NIGHTMARES

[Chris Poisson]

Dave,

FWIW I am using a DeckLink card and my type look horrible just like yours.

I had to go back to Panther ’cause I have dubs due today.

[Dennis Lisonbee]

Yes, this is in fact a MAJOR PROBLEM with FCP. I have not noticed it with HD but with DVCPRO 25 it makez Final Cut Pro 5 unusable. I have a 26 minute project I just did as a favor for a friend. I took his Powerpoint Presentation, imported it into KEYNOTE, added drop shadows to the fonts and so forth and exported all the frames as .png files. I imported them into FCP, cut everything to a narration track and output ot a DVD. The DVD has the problem and the print to video has a problem. I have a very expensive SONY HR monitor. It look horrible on that. It is some type of a field problem where FCP is only playing out one field. Thus all the jaggies. I suggest we all get with Apple on this. Unless we are all doing something wrong, THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM!! I’m posting his on the FCP list on the APPLE site and I invite everyone to post there.

Dennis Lisonbee

[Gunner Jones]

First of all, you probably are not rendering properly nor are you monitoring your rendered effects properly.

First read this:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/rendering_rt_fcp_4_balis.html

What should you learn from that article?

[Stanley Tang]

Same problem here with a Cinewave System. It happens on the edges of all layers, not only on text! Another “interesting” thing is, let’s say your psd sequence is called “Test Text.psd”, try place a tif or jpg file with names like “Test Text.tif” into the timeline, now look at the name of sequence. It changed from “Test Text.psd” to “Test Text.tif”! Amazing!

Oh, can someone tell me why I no longer can change the audio tracks setting on an offline clip? Control click on the “tracks” or “audio” field on the clip shows “no chortcuts”!!! Man, FCP 5 is buggy.

[Dan Mills]

I had the same problem with my still images – came to this forum and Nick Toth’s tip about setting the motion processor to the fastest fixed the problem for me too. I was beating myself senseless for hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.

Thanks, Nick!

[Dennis Lisonbee]

I have found that the problem with graphics takes place when scaling them in FCP 5. By going into Photoshop for scaling images, the text is clean in FCP. I’m still not sure what is causing the other probelms in this thread.

Dennis Lisonbee

[Gunner Jones]

But scaling is AWESOME in FCP 5.

[Dave Simon]

Well everyone – thank you for all of your input! We’re getting there.

The issue of the jagged edges has been RESOLVED! Whew. It is that damn Render Filter setting in the Video tab of the sequence settings. The funny (read: not funny) thing about that setting is that when you open a project that was done in 4.5 with FCP 5, FCP goes through a conversion process. In that process, it asks you want kind of filter you want to use (Best, Normal or Fastest). Obviously, we want Fastest for two reasons. One: We’ll eliminate problems similar to what I just went through with jagged edges. Two: The conversion dialog box that you are presented with when opening an old seq in 5 actually tells you that the old sequence was done with the Fastest filter! “Yeah, we know you did it this way before, but what about trying something new?” WHAT?

New Problem! SLUGGISH PERFORMANCE! My Dual 2 gig machine is stalling out quite a bit right now when jumping around from App to App. I’m in FCP and decide that I need to do something in Photoshop; so I open Photoshop, do my thing and go back to FCP. Once you come back to FCP from another program, including the finder, FCP is suddenly VERY slow to respond. Could this be an Io issue? I doubt that my 3 gigs of ram are lacking in any way. Any ideas?

FCP 4.5 ruled compared to this 30 pound box of crap. Thanks for the headaches, Apple!

Dave

[David Battistella]

My office partner, Byron may have solved this provlem today. I had the exact same problems described in the above posts. I tried several options and then Byron took over.

THE PROBLEM SEEMS TO BE RELATED DIRECTLY TO THE *EMBEDED COLOR PROFILE* OF THE SPECIFIC FILE. IT SEEMS THAT IF THERE IS NOT A COLOR PROFILE ATTACHED TO THE FILE OR IF IT IS CMYK YOU COULD BE INTROUBLE. TRY TO RESAVE THE FILES AS TIFFS WITH AND EMBEDDED COLOR PROFILE SELECTED.

David