Full FCP 7 Assault – Out of Memory, Dropped Frames, Playback Trouble suddenly.

[David Roth weiss]

Marc,

BS Marc, you CAN fix those letterbox issues, you just don’t know how to do it yet, and you’re allowing your fear of the unknown to overwhelm you.

I can log into your Mac remotely online, and I can teach you how to make the fixes you need on every type of clip you have, which you can then copy and paste to every other similar clip in your project. I charge $100/hour for my services, and if my fixes don’t fix things you pay $0.

***My 65th birthday is tomorrow, so that’s out, and my weekend rate is 2X – so, if you decide you’d like my help, I’d recommend getting started today or early next week. If you want to continue on your own, my feelings will not be hurt.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Marc Israel]

David, I never said I couldn’t fix the letterbox issues. I only said I don’t know how to to fix them, point blank.

Thanks for your offer. My budget for this film is exactly $0, so I will have to consider that as a very last option, and only then after a robbing a bank.

Meanwhile happy 65th!!

[Marc Israel]

I have looked further into changing all sequence settings on this project, both by reading as well as experimentation. One good thing is that the pixel aspect ration, that you, David, advised (square), is what turned the screen into letterbox but this time around (oddly, none of the options were making the proper canvas shape first time I tried), I was able to get the proper image by using HD 1440×1080, and the same aspect ratio. I could do this either by making a new sequence, and cut/pasting the old sequence, OR by changing the sequence settings in the original sequence. Same difference it seems, yes? So I’m wondering if these settings (with ProRes422 as compressor of course) will be fine, safe, kosher, better, bestest for my project, if I can go ahead and change ‘em all, or if for some reason, they are not, OR I have to tweak some other settings other than the three things listed above. Mark, you mentioned making sure frame rates match. I don’t see anything about frame rates specifically in the sequence settings, but it might be staring me in the face because I’m not abundantly clear on the concept. Am I good to go?

[Marc Israel]

Late-breaking: it turns out that, despite the audio clips being cut and pasted with the rest, all the audio plays out of sync w/ the video. Didn’t realize this until now as was viewing instrumental bits without sync sound. Not the case when I change settings of original sequence. Can this be explained?