• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Loss of color sync in Tricaster to FCP workflow

  Posted by Josh Figatner on March 24, 2009 at 1:16 am

  Hello everyone,

  I work with the Tricaster Studio out in the field w/ a muti-cam setup and I’ve run into a very annoying problem when editing:

  First of all, I’m not sure the Tricaster and Apple FCP 6.0.4 mix very well in general because the Tricaster will only render .mov files at 640×480 resolution that look horrible when editingin full NTSC resolution in FCP. Our work-around for this is to render from the Tricaster into an .avi file at full (720×480) resolution.

  Of course we get a warning when importing said file- the .avi is not optimized for FCP. However, it seems to work fine except for one problem: with fast motion or a cut between cameras, there is a ‘ghost’ color image separate from the luma that is left over for one frame. It’s difficult to see playing the vid realtime, but it’s definitely there and noticeable. I’ve uploaded a couple of screen captures so you can see the problem.

  Any ideas what’s the deal with this? I imagine it’s the .avi encoding not optimized for FCP? Many of these shoots are long large files (2hrs- 20+ GB) that take days to ‘optimize’ in FCP so I stopped trying that. Should I go back to exporting to QT from the Tricaster? I dont understand why you can only export in 640×480 for QT and 720×480 for .avi

  Very frustrating- any advice is greatly appreciated. Oh yes, one more thing- our cameras aren’t very great (Cannon XL-1) but I don’t think they are the primary culprit

  Thanks,

  Josh

  
  
  
  

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