flip4mac can’t do dissolves!

[Chris Borjis]

flip4mac has a number of issues.

I don’t have any trouble with multi layered timelines though.
everything is cool except 2-pass vbr.

what version of final cut pro and flip4mac are you on?

[Dale Larsen]

i just checked for updates on everything including flip4.

I am up to date.

I am using single cbr, simple DV timlines.

You can do layers? & titles?

Maybe I need to reinstall. I had a friend on a mac with FCP try it and he can’t do layers either
Dale

[Morten]

just got to force render everything before exporting from FCP

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[Ron Craig]

I posted this issue earlier in the week, reporting the same problem with dissolve failures using Flip4 Mac…even after I rendered the timeline. The only way I could get the dissolves into the .wmv file was to export the piece as a self-contained QT first and then re-import to FCP before exporting again with Flip4Mac. It did not have a problem with titles; they came out fine.

Chris mentioned above that two-pass VBR encoding is a problem with Flip4Mac and that’s what I was using. Is anyone here getting accurate .wmv exports — including dissolves — using a choice other than 2-pass VBR? Anyone have any more information about that apparent bug? Anyone know if it’s being worked on?

Ron

[Dale Larsen]

By force render, you mean going and checking every “render item” available in settings?
or are there specific ones to check?

For example, I have a seven minute sequence in DVCPRO HD. (no render need for playback, just simple title over one video layer) this is a watermark not a title from Live type or FCP.

I checked all the render boxes and the machine wanted an hour to render.

the same timeline exported as a QT file takes 15 min.

I just need a WMV final product in the simplest/quickest workflow.

Ron Craig mentioned he can do titles. please tell me the circumstances.
HD, SD, where the titles come from?

any thoughts?

[Gary Adcock]

[Dale Larsen] “any thoughts? “

Yeah
why is no one trying to modify the compressions settings?

The ONLY one button solution is the OFF button.

F4M cannot render a dissolve because the default keyframes are too far apart to understand there is supposed to be one in that location and obviously there is not a lot enough of a difference in the footage from one side of the dissolve to the other for it to force a keyframe there.

reset keyframes in the export to be 15 frames or less the dissolves will render, oh and your compression should look better too.

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[Ron Craig]

Ron Craig mentioned he can do titles. please tell me the circumstances.
HD, SD, where the titles come from?

They were very simple titles done inside FCP. SD material. Nothing fancy.

[Andy Mees]

I notice that the latest beta version notes among other bugfixes

Exporter: Fixed transition rendering issue when using Flip4Mac 2.2 with Final Cut Express

maybe what you are seeing is a related issue?