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FInal Cut Not rendering Solid Color
I have had this problem several times. I have a small graphic with a solid color matte behind a logo and text. It will render just fine one time, and any time I go back to do edits it shows as black or gray. I will replace the matte, and nothing. I will restart FCP, nothing. I will restart my machine, and SOMETIMES it will fix it that one time. But in this project, not even that worked. Any advice?
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See if it’s the project file gone wonky… Create a new project file, then create the same visual you’re having problems with. If it exibits the same behavior, then post back. If it works OK, copy the whole project file into this new one… and move along.
I’ve heard that doing a save as will do much the same, but I’ve not tried it yet because I’ve not needed to…
Jerry
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Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
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Yep, same thing. When I create the matte, it should be blue as a default but it is black.
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I can reopen the project and it will show the correct color, but if I render, if I add a transition (even one that comes with FCP) or even copy the matte color, it turns black or gray. If I copy it, both turn gray.
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Forgot to mention I also deleted the prefs last night to fix this too and nothing happened.
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Yuck. I don’t think you can just recopy the part of the app that is this matte… I could be wrong though.
Try using the other matte that will default as grey. There are two of them and one is an fx plug, the other isn’t.
Jerry
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Hmm, That one seems to be ok. But honestly it has never worked for me. Thats why I use the solid color one. This one usually exports as gray. Something with my FX plugin maybe?
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Sounds like it is corrupted. I don’t know if you can just reinstall that single fx plug though.. But for now, use the other as it’s not corrupted. It’s an fx plug so will render a bit faster, but it’s not better quality in any way per se…
I’ll look around to see if there’s a way to reinstall just that fx plug but I have a sinking feeling that there’s not other than to dump FCP and reinstall it.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Are you creating this color matte using an FCP generator?
If so, this sounds like a problem I had a year ago, editing an HD show in Pro Res. I worked around it by creating the matte in an Uncompressed timeline, then exporting it as a regular Quicktime
video clip…then bringing that back into my original timeline… The composite rendered properly then. It seemed like it was weird bug that only cropped up with the matte generator when using Pro Res. -
Well, I usually use the one called Color Matte Solid. Recently, its name changed in my selector to Color Matte [filter name] solid. I guess thats when it started acting up. Usually the Color Solid never worked for me, but does now. I am editing in DV NTSC settings.
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