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Final Cut won’t assemble edit to tape
I feel like I am on here WAAAY too much and hope to be running smoothly soon.
Thank you all for your patience as this AVID editor has been learning Final Cut Pro by fire as our company has changed systems.
Final Cut was acting really buggy and having multiple problems so I decided to uninstall and reinstall the program yesterday using Final Cut Pro remover (thanks for the suggestion).
I am now to the point of exporting my sequence to tape. I have a Kona 3 card that I have and I’m going to digibeta.
None of the hardware has changed because I was just doing outputs the other day. The only variable that has changed is that I reinstalled Final Cut (and subsequently lost my export settings), so I KNOW I’m missing settings somewhere.
Here is what happens:
I get everything ready for export (mixdown my audio, assign each track to their respective 4 channels, mix the video down to one track, render everything). I then go to Export to tape where I throw my sequence into “Assemble”.
It says something like, “Ready for playback. Click okay to begin recording.”
So I hit okay, the edit to tape preview window pops up and then disappears after about a second. I get no error message or anything, but nothing happens. Here are some settings I have:
Under Summary Tab –
Sequence Preset: AJA KONA3: 525 29.27 Apple ProRes 422
Under Sequence Presets Tab, the window to the right reads-
Frame Size: 720 x 486 Pixels
Editing Timebase: 29.97 fps
Field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC – CCIR 601/DV
Anamorphic 16:9: Off
Video Processing: High Precision YUV allowed
White Point: WhiteCompressor: Apple ProRes 422
Millions of Colors (24 bit)
No Data Rate Limit
No Keyframes Set
Quality: 100Audio Settings:
24-bit 48.000 kHz Stereo
These seem to be the important settings, I don’t know what I could be missing, or where I should be looking for that matter.
To me, it almost behaves like a timecode issue, like it can’t read the timecode or something?
Trevor Hands
“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” — Murphy’s Law
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5 Replies
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Uninstall and reinstall the Kona drivers. Make sure to get the latest ones.
Shane
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Thanks for the lightning fast reply Shane!
I’ll give that a try.
Trevor Hands
“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” — Murphy’s Law
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This may not be the case,, but I’ve seen it stump a few people.
Check the A/V settings tab in the Audio/Video Settings dialogue box
( Final Cut Pro –> Audio/Video settings… –> A/V Devices Tab )Make sure there ISN’T a checkmark in the checkbox for “Different Output for Edit to Tape…”
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.“Live, love, laugh and be happy.”
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Thanks Colin,
I actually did run into that area when I was looking at settings, and no there is no check next to that, so we’re good there.
I actually think this update has fixed the problem because when I reinstalled Final Cut, I had to update the software, and so I was running newer Final Cut software to really old AJA Kona drivers. Made total sense, so I uninstalled the old drivers, installed the latest ones.
And I just was able to export to tape!
Thanks guys! My day hasn’t totally gone to waste! 🙂
Trevor Hands
“Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.” — Murphy’s Law
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Trevor,
anytime you reinstall your final cut software..you should check to make sure all the things in your regular workflow are working properly (ie input output). That way you can fix the problems before murphy’s law gets you.
-mattyc
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