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Video Playback problem – One particular Sequence-Please Help
Hello to all,
I am very sorry for posting twice on the same issue, but this issue is now really annoying the client. So I am in need of help, and fast help.
I am editing at a clients office and can’t seem to figure out this problem with video playback. There system is a Mac Pro Quad, 8gigs, with FCP S2. The footage is all DVCProHD 720p24 shot from the Panasonic HDX900. I am using the Panasonic BT-LH900A Monitor (I call it the little 8.4inch). This is all through an AJA Kona Card (not sure which model).
For some reason, the biggest project that I am working on, less the 7min, will not let me monitor picture in real time. I can scrub the picture (slowly), but once I press the space bar and play, the monitor will FREEZE on the last frame and hold. Then once stop or pause, the monitor will refresh with the current frame.
This is only on this particular sequence (the 7min piece), every other sequence looks great. The previous editor organizes quite different than I would of, there are 28 different spots in the same project. Not sure if that has any thing to do with it. Everything is rendered. I just don’t know.
Let me know if anybody has any suggestions or have experienced the same problem.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Beau
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8 Replies
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Hit control-q and select the easy setup that is appropriate for your project/timeline, something like AJA Kona3 720p24 DVCpro HD Varicam. Or choose the 8 bit one if working in 8 bit or the 10 but one if working in 10 bit.
Jeremy
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Jeremy,
Thank you for your help. I was wrong about the format. The footage is 1080i, 23.98. I am just getting my feet wet with the AJA, is there a way to know whether I’m working in 8 bit, 10 bit, or RGB? The setting as of now is 8bit and I am not having any luck.
Also, there are several other sequences that are working perfectly, only this bigger one is giving me problems.
No luck as of yet but thank you for your help and please let me know if you have any other advise.
Beau
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O.K., I believe I the system is working in 8bit, since that is the only setting that I can get any video. But for some reason still, it will not play the Video, only show the current frame paused or stopped. And this is still only in this one sequence. Which is of course, the one sequence that is our main project.
Very confusing.
Beau
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Wow, I can’t believe this thread is looking like I am talking to myself, but well, I guess I am.
Anyway, I have just done another test, by copy and pasting the entire sequence into another new sequence (not nesting, literally selecting all the clips, cmd-c, open test sequence and cmd-v)
And what do you know, the video plays back fine. This is weird. Is this a way to do this? Do I loose something very important by copy and pasting an entire project? Or is this fine, and if it works it works?
Beau
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To find your sequence settings, hit apple-0 (zero) with your timeline window selected.
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It sounds like the original sequence your long program was in had the incorrect settings. When a project is first started and you select Easy Setup, if that setup is different from the last setup used, the first sequence of the new project has the old project settings. Whenever you start a project it’s best to delete the sequence that opens first, and then make a new one that will have the correct settings.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neuman U87s, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN -
Well, I have found some more interesting information. The sequence in question, it’s Editing Timebase is 29.97. The other 27 spots that the company, a travel video company, is working on, has an Editing Timebase of 23.98.
So I changed my Video Playback setting to: AJA Kona 1080i29.97 8 Bit (1920×1080)…
And bam! I got playback. But now, should I be concerned about this sequence, which again is the Main project (It is a compilation of the other 27 resorts). Should I be concerned that it’s 29.97 when all of the other ones are 23.98.
Again, I just now took over on this project that was previously edited by a student who had to go back to school. I’m just trying to see what I should be prepared for.
Thanks again for all of you help, the client is now able to get off my shoulder and view his on monitor.
Beau
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[beb850] “Should I be concerned that it’s 29.97 when all of the other ones are 23.98.”
Could be an issue if you need to recapture. It really depends on how the footage was captured in the first place. If it was captured @ 29.97, you’re good, if captured @ 23.98 then you could copy paste the footage from the 29.97 sequence into a 23.98 sequence.
You can check to see the frame rate of the clips in the browser.
Jeremy
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