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Media Manager – Creating Speed Changes on Subclips
Hi All,
I am running into a interesting bug in the Media Manager. Essentially, during our online edits, sub-clips that DO NOT contain any effects, speed changes, or other Motion tab changes are appearing after the media management process with insane Speed Ramps (ex – 6074%).
Subsequently, if I go back into the original sequence, select the problem clip, and go Modify-Remove Subclip Limits, and re-media manage the sequence, the problem does not persist.
The perplexing part is this does not happen with all my sub-clips in the sequence. Some sub-clips come through the media manager fine. Additionally, if I modify-remove subclip limits, to all the sub-clips in my sequence, it alters the video of the sub-clips that do not have problems coming through the media manager.
The Sequence is DVCPRO HD 1080i29.97
I have tried running tests on three separate stations:
PowerMac G5, 2.5 Ghz, OSX 10.5.3
PowerMac G5, 2.7 gHZ, OSX 10.5.3
Mac Pro, 2.8 Ghz, OSX 10.5.3Any thoughts?
Cheers,
Brian
Brian Krist
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Any thoughts? Only one: Media Manager is notoriously ill conceived and poorly implemented. To depend on the output requires careful testing and evaluation of the output. You’re doing fine. Well. you’re doing no better than anyone else.
In the many years I’ve been trying to figure out what Media Manager does, how it does it, and why it’s so messed up I have arrived at at the conclusion that it’s got to be me, simple user error. We know, for a fact, that thousands of FCP users regularly rely on MM to handle backups of mission critical and irreplaceable or expensive projects, and to ship media around to clients and collaborative shops. And it works without flaw. Media manager has never worked for me. Not once. Not ever. Not for simple stuff done as tests and not for complex stuff where I really could have used some protection and consolidation. Maybe it will get fixed someday but more likely is I will someday have someone show me what I’m doing wrong.
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