purple flashes after render FCPX

[James Cude]

Using any 3rd party plugins? Unfortunately this is a known issue in 10.0.7.

[Jay Fishback]

Yea Neat Video.

Earth without art is just Eh

[Alex Gollner]

There’s talk on the plug-ins developer forum that this bug in Final Cut Pro started in 10.0.6 and hasn’t been fixed. Although it happens with some third-party effects, it is a new fault in Final Cut.

Sometimes the problem can be fixed by sharing as an image sequence (instead of a movie). You can then use QuickTime Player 7 or Compressor to covert the sequence to the movie format of your choice and reimport into Final Cut to combine with your audio. Not very practical, but a little better than some effects being impossible to use in 10.0.6 and 10.0.7.

@alex4d

[James Cude]

Or just export directly to Compressor. The bug is related to GPU rendering which X does but Compressor does not.

[Tony West]

I just noticed this myself (purple flash). It’s a shame because the Neatvideo plugin is really good (or was)

I also notice that the render of Neatvideo takes forever : (

[David Powell]

Its purple now? After 3 projects, I finally gave up on fcp X and went back to Avid because I couldn’t get a clean render. It literally cost me days of time. My fix was to export a master file, import into avid, make markers where the corrupt frames were, re-export clean frames out of fcp x, import to avid, overwrite and export out of Avid. Yeah, all that time I saved on bg rendering and import, I paid 10x over in the end.

This happened with and without 3rd party effects in 10.05 and 10.06 and send to compressor didn’t seem to make a difference.

Btw, this happened on fcpx transitions (notably the blur dissolve) which would make the video downsize 75% and turn black, and also random green flashes, freezes and audio dropouts. My client who was also using X on a brand new MBP had the same problem as did the other editor on X. All on 3 different machines.

[Tony West]

I hear you. It’s frustrating because I really like the program but what will kill it faster than all the changes they made will be it’s bugginess.

When money is on the line you just simply needs things to work.

[Tony West]

By the way, I got a nice response from Neatvideo and they told me that Apple is working on it and he thought that it would be in 10.0.8

If you contact them they have a some links about it the will e-mail to you with a patch.

I have not tried it yet.

[David Powell]

Exactly. And what bugs me is I spent so much time trying to fix it and could never make it work. So it was just all lost time and money. As I sit here now waiting for my next project to finish transcoding, I quite miss the import and proxy workflow. funny thing is, I couldn’t even use it as a hobby YouTube editor with the problems I had.

I guess I was just part of an unlucky bunch.