NTSC ProRes project wrong

[Tapio Haaja]

[Jon Chappell] “QT Edit can fix all of those problems:
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promedia
“

True, tested and works! Highly recommended 🙂 And it’s okay for me to change parameters in QT Edit if I’m working alone but it’s not one thing I’m going to teach to everyone in our department. So this problem is one reason why we’re not using FCPX.

And even that QT Edit can solve all Prores problems we still have non-square materal + motion template based effects = softening problem.

Tapio

[Oliver Peters]

The bottom line seems to be that FCP X should be avoided for SD jobs, unless you want to do a few workarounds to make it work. I guess Apple feels that SD, along with tape, if simply a legacy format, best left behind. Can’t say that I disagree in concept, but it makes it hard to use X in the real world.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Tapio Haaja]

Even that SD is legacy there are lots of HD programs (documents etc.) that will use some SD material in it and this same “non-square material + motion template based effects = softening” happens also when you’ve SD material in HD timeline and add effects to SD clips. So there’s no really excuse for Apple if they want FCPX to be professional program.

And there’s also HD formats (HDV, DVCPRO HD 1440×1080) which aren’t square pixel and this problem happens also there. I really hope this will be fixed in 10.0.6 or 10.1 whatever comes next.

Tapio

[Mathieu Ghekiere]

Have people also sent Apple feedback about this?
I didn’t know about these issues, and I can only hope that people that do know, provide feedback so the chances that Apple fixes them, is bigger.

[Jon Chappell]

I suspect that they may be issues within AV Foundation rather than FCPX.

My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools…

[Tapio Haaja]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “Have people also sent Apple feedback about this?”

At least I’ve sent couple feedbacks regarding this issue but I hope more and more people will give feedback so Apple have to take it seriously.

Tapio

[Chris Harlan]

[Jon Chappell] “I suspect that they may be issues within AV Foundation rather than FCPX.”

I’d agree with that. The shift to QT X created all kinds of anomalies for SD Broadcast formats. I can only imagine what the transition to AV Foundation introduced.

[Oliver Peters]

[Jon Chappell] “I suspect that they may be issues within AV Foundation rather than FCPX.”

I’d agree. I ran into an audio issue related to C300/PIX240 recordings that I posted in another thread. Every application I used EXCEPT FCP X played the files fine, but X added digital glitches. The original problem seemed to stem from metadata related to sample rates, so there was some sort of problem. Nevertheless, every “standard” application passed clean audio and didn’t make it sound bad.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bernard Newnham]

I see that Digital Rebellion are looking for bete testers –
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/our_crossplatform_future.html

Bernie

[Joseph Owens]

[Oliver Peters] “The other is that it does not properly handle 480 media in a 486 timeline.”

I have to wonder if this is rounding error in a non-hexadecimal-compatible picture aspect ratio. 480 is divisible by 16 but 486 obviously is not.

jPo

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