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fcp 6 distortion & pixelation issues
Hi Creative Cow Community,
Hopeful this forum can help me with a major fcp 6 issue. I am currently experiencing pixelation and distortion when rendering my timeline. I have made no changes to settings, etc. I started a new project, timeline, etc. but no change problem still occurring. I even trashed my preferences and reinstalled fcp 6 software but no change, pixelation and distortion still appearing. Oddly when I play previous projects that have been rendered, they play fine.
It doesn’t matter if its video or jpeg images, when rendering I get the color pinwheel and the rendering is very slow. I am working on Mac G5 Power PC, 2.5GB memory, 16GB ram. I do not have other programs running in the background, so what could be causing this problem and how can I correct it?Greatly appreciate any suggestions since I am not sure what to do next.
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the footage is from dvcam (it plays back fine and I pulled it from an older project which plays fine) so I don’t believe its the video.
still images are jpeg’s but I also converted / sized them in photoshop.
I have trashed all render files, but still getting pixelation, any other suggestions is greatly appreciated.
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Hi Rafael,
Just did that and restarted but no change, still pixelation. Oddly my old projects play fine. Could this be a hardware issue? If so, what?Thanks!
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i don’t think is nothing related with the hardware. With hardware issues, things go or don’t go, but normally do not make funny things on rendering.
can you post a shot of your sequence settings, and the Video processing window?
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Ok Rafael, here’s what I’ve got. Also here is a pic of what I am getting. thanks!
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Hi Patricia,
That’s not just pixelation, that a huge corruption.
There is really something wrong going on there.
Your sequence setting are correct.One more question; Are your JPEG RGB and no CMYK?
Suggestion:
Open a new sequence, set Prores as the sequence codec and “Render all YUV in High Precision”.
then make some graphics like a solid color background and some titles on top, and export.
See what happens.
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Hi Rafael,
Thanks for hanging in here with me regarding this issue.The Jpegs are RGB
Just tried your suggestion and got the same results. Not sure what to do next? Is this even fixable?
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Patricia,
There is something rotten in the rendering pipeline. If you would be having problems when displaying other things, i would say that could be a problem with your graphic card, but is not the case.
Neither I can suggest you to re-install or trashing preffs because you have already done it.
Two more suggestions:
– Go to the Final Cut Render Folder and delete the “Constant Frames”.
– Reapair permissions.
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Hi Rafael,
I think you might have struck gold! I trashed the constant frames and did a quick sequence and no pixelations. Couldn’t spend too much time on it this morning, so hopefully this is the real fix, had to run off to work (as an Avid Editor). I will work with it later this evening. I will keep you posted.
I can’t THANK YOU enough for ALL your help with this issue.
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