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FCP won’t render flop filter
Hi there,
I shot some upside down video using the XDCAM EX 1080p24 codec. Now I am in FCP 6.0.6 and apply the flop filter in order to turn the image 180 degrees (flop filter set on “both” horizontal+vertical).
In the canvas it looks flopped as it should and I can play it back normally. If I render it in the timeline, or export it as a quicktime though, the flop effect is not being taken in account and the footage appears upside down again. Motion effects or other filters get applied and rendered as they should,but for some reason FCP doesn’t want to render the flop.
Does anybody have an idea what this coud be about?
Any help would be highly apreciated.Thanks in advance
Alex
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6 Replies
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Not sure why that particular filter isn’t working correctly but you may try doing the adjustment in the motion tab (rotation) and if you have more than one clip like this in your timeline, just copy the first one you adjusted, then “paste attributes” to the others. Just a thought!
Tony Brittan
Apple Certified Pro – FCP
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Thanks Tony, but unfortunately it won’t render the flipped image either this way. So it generally doesn’t wont to flip it. Neither with the flop filter nor the motion tab rotation.
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Check your Render Settings in the Sequence Menu. Are all of the choices selected for Render All and Render Selected? (Preview, Proxy, Needs Render, Full, etc….)
If not, check them all and try again. It’s possible it’s an RT effect depending on the speed of your machine and if you’re not set up to render that effect AND your timeline is set up to “Play Base Layer Only” then:
1 – the filter won’t render
2 – FCP would ignore the filter during RT playback when you have “Play Base Layer Only.”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I found a solution: with the basic 3D filter (which flops my image automatically without setting anything up, which I don’t understand?) it does the job. Now I can export the footage and it stays how it should be:flipped.
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I’ve run into similar issues recently. I used a .psd to create a letterbox (also tried a .tif and using Andy’s Letterbox) and when not rendered, the video was letterboxed correctly, but when rendered, the letterbox is no longer visible and the video from track 1 fills the 4X3 area.
I’ve trashed preferences, trashed render files, saved the project as a new name, tried different ways of making the letterbox…. everything else on video tracks 2 and 3 shows up properly, but for some reason the letterbox hasn’t been working. And it’s only one one of the projects that I’m working on right now that I’ve run into this. I don’t think it’s an alpha channel issue, and it’s definitely not because of having “Play Base Layer Only” checked. I just have no idea what else it could be.
It has been a couple of years since a fresh install, which I’ve recommended a couple of times, but it hasn’t happened. It might be time for another push for a fresh install to start the new year off right.
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Fresh install? Right! That’s what I would do.
Kevin Monahan
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