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Wierd SLUG behavior in PAL land
I just realized that the “slug” in FCP is showing up as an NTSC clip even though my setup is 100% PAL. I never noticed this or run into any problems until the other day. I output a finished documentary on Digital Beta using the 10 bit uncompressed codec. I then needed an emergency DVD of the prject,so a technician took that Master and did a copy manually using a professional external DVD recorder. The DVD recorder kept stopping when it reached a piece of slug. He noticed that the NTSC light on the recorder flashed when it got to that point. I went back to FCP and low and behold when I look at the “properties” of the slug, it’s NTSC! I always encode my Master tapes using a hardware encoder and never ever had a problem… Anybody else have this problem?
Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.1.2, OS X10.4.8
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That’s weird.
I’m not a big fan of the slug, though. It’s always caused problems for me. What I’d do is export some black as a self-contained clip, import it and use that as your slug.
One of the problems I was having with the generated slugs was when using the TC reader for TC burn. At first, it just dropped the timeline timecode whenever it would hit a slug, but then it started messing with the TC values (in the reader) throughout the rest of the show. More trouble than they’re worth, IMO.
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yep the slug Generator is NTSC and can’t see any way of changing that. for a quick workaround, you could create your own slug using Generator > Matte > Color and make it a favourite.
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Thanks all. That sounds like something Apple should fix. I’ll report it. Thanks for the suggestions. In fact I’m putting in a solid black color for now. At least I can vary the length as necessary, the only drawback is that when it comes time to output to tape it needs to be rendered (green line above clip). Not a big problem, but nonetheless a needless step.
Thanks again.Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.1.2, OS X10.4.8
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That’s why I suggest making a self-contained clip. It only needs to be a 10 seconds or so, and then you can just use it over and over and easily file it away on your HD for future use.
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Point well taken. I’ll do just that.
Thanks for the tip.Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.1.2, OS X10.4.8
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My pleasure. Just a little something I picked up from Walter. Hope it helps.
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