.mov going out of sync

[Jeremy Garchow]

Please give more information about the nature of your timeline, media, etc.

[Shannon Bedford]

We’re working with XDCAMHD422 1080i50 footage. Timeline was set to match this. (Editing timebase is 25).

If you can help me today it will be much appreciated as the client needs it quickly. Thanks!

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Jeremy Garchow]

The only place it loses sync is in FCP?

How are you monitoring?

Fully rendered?

Tried an audio mixdown (select all, command-option-r)?

Hard drives full?

Give me the big picture.

[Shannon Bedford]

Ok.
I’ve just found out that a draft of the sequence was exported the same way a day earlier and it was perfectly in sync. Now we have exported 4 times (and restarted) but it’s always the same problem. I don’t know of anything that has changed other than a few edits.

So as I said it’s a brand new suite, so hard drives are definately not full!

It only loses sync on export of a mov from FCP (I checked by reimporting back to FCP and it stays out of sync). I have also exported directly to compressor and it was perfect.

Monitoring is fine, the file starts in sync but gradually gets more and more out of sync as the clip progresses. Speakers directly into the Mac Pro.

Yes it’s fully rendered. There were lots of nested sequences in this so I’ve now gone into every single clip and made sure everything is rendered inside. I’ve never found this necessary in the past. That didn’t work either.

Audio mixdown-I tried select all, command-option-r and nothing happened. I gather from reading other forums nothing is supposed to happen as the file created doesn’t end up in your project? Anyway that didn’t work either.

Help!

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Jeremy Garchow]

Under the Sequence > render all and Sequence > Render Selected, are all those options checked?

Check them all, then try the mix down again.

For grins, dupe the timeline, change the seq. codec to ProRes and render.

Jeremy

[Shannon Bedford]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou Jeremy.
Your first suggestion solved it!

Sequence Render All – “full” was not checked.

This might sound bizarre, but I’ve been using the Final Cut System for 18 months and never before noticed that there were ticks there to be toggled. I can from a background render system and always found the Final Cut rendering drop down menu quite baffling. We had all the check boxes ticked on our old edit suite so this problem never arose until we bought this new suite.

So, you learn something new every day. Make that every hour.

I can’t tell you how much stress you have just lifted from this office!
Thanks again.

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Shannon Bedford] “This might sound bizarre, but I’ve been using the Final Cut System for 18 months and never before noticed that there were ticks there to be toggled.”

When you installed the new system, the preferences were started from scratch and some of those options are off by default. Perhaps on the old system, they were already checked.

Glad it worked for you!

Jeremy

[Tony Fields]

Ok. I have the same issue and tried the Sequence fix, but to no avail. Not entirely sure what “duping the sequence” entails. Oh, the footage is from a Canon (dslr) and seq is set to match footage
System is:
OS X 10.6.3 FCP 7.0
2.4 ghz intel core duo
3gb 800 mhz ddr sdram

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tony Fields] “Oh, the footage is from a Canon (dslr) and seq is set to match footage “

That’s the problem.

You need to log and transfer first to convert the footage to ProRes before you start the edit.

Jeremy

[Tony Fields]

Thanks. What if i just pulled the clips from the sd card?