Problems Of The Day, OH FCP is fun :-)

[John Pale]

[35mmGuy] “1) I’m printing a project to tape that has music. It prints to tape fine with the music, but abandons the print when the music is turned off or deleted. The only difference I see is that when I have the music track on it says some thing about rendering the audio files, this takes a minute or two, then it prints fine.

With the audio off it doesn’t do this, then it abandons the print. I have tried telling it to render all when the music is off, but same thing, it quits when the music track is not being used.

Very weird, any ideas??????????”

Not really sure what is happening there (cant really tell from your description), but why dont you just duplicate the sequence, then delete the audio track (s)you dont want from the duplicate timeline, rather than turning off the tracks. Print the duplicate sequence to tape.

[35mmGuy] “2) I’m editing a telecined project and the post house has given me a flex-file & ALE for my transfered footage. Only problem is they don’t have a clue how to use it with FCP and neither do I? I can’t load it as an EDL. The only thing I’ve been able to do with it is load it into a Cinema Tools data base. That’s great, but then what? I can’t import that data base either.”

You are going to have to read the Cinema Tools help. Basically, I think you are going to be exporting a batch capture list from Cinema Tools for FCP. Flex/ALE files are for raw clips, not sequences (EDLs are only for sequences).

[35mmGuy] “Oh I love FCP :-)”

You are going to love its Manuals even better.

[Richard Boddington]

Yeah I had to put extra support beams under my house so the manuals don’t crash through the floor. They are longer than the tax code 🙁

R,

[John Pale] “You are going to love its Manuals even better.”

[Richard Boddington]

Good news, I figured how to make that flex file work that comes from the post house. It has to go in, then out of Cinema Tools, then into FCP as a Batch List. Then FCP is happy to import the footage based on the list.

Still no luck getting FCP to export minus the music track 🙁 When the music track is on the time line it says “writing audio” before printing to tape and it works. Minus the audio track it just goes right to printing and doesn’t give me that message, then it aborts the printing.

I tried re-saving the time line minus the music, same deal. Is there a way to make FCP, “write the audio?” I tried Render All, no effect.

Of course I found a half assed work around, I just started my deck in record and played the time line. It worked. But it should do it the proper way, right?

Thanks
Richard

[Nick Meyers]

if it works, it works.
if you render all your fx, and do an audio mixdown there’s no difference between PTV and timeline playout.

there’s a much easier way to get your flex file into FCPv5:
file menu: import telecine log
comes direct into FCP and makes a cinema tools database at the same time.

cheers,
nick