Aaron Neitz
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Sherwood….. there’s definately something very wrong with your system. Stuff like that just doesn’t happen… there must be some corruption or hardware problems.
like others suggested, could be some corrupt render files… so Delete them all and re-render.
What kind of SATA drives are you using? Is it an external RAID? Internals? Are they close to capacity?
How did you digitize? DV? One hour loads per clip?
A couple years ago we had this home-made scsi JBOB… IBM drives, but 4 of them were a slightly different revision…Like all the other drives were Rev B, and they were Rev C. …it caused the occasional wrong piece of media to be displayed, which sounds a little like what you’re seeing.
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Yeah, that terrible Sequence 1. I hate it.
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I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
Final cut 4.5 was very stable.
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You sound like you’re in a little deeper than you realize. Time to call a meeting of the producer, post-supervisor, CG and FX guys, transfer house, online/finishing house, 35mm print lab and figure out $$ vs. Quality vs. Time. Going for a full theatrical print with effects is a complicated process that can get really nasty if you don’t lay the groundwork 1st. Nothing worse than eye matching every cut in a feature.
You WON’T want to blow-up anything from NTSC to 35mm – It’ll look pretty rough… Cheapest decent solution is to finish in 1080 and laser scan that back to 35. But you need to get the EFX guys everything in 1080 to begin with, so that they don’t have to re-render, don’t have to pull new keys, etc….
You might want to check out efilm.com. They’ve got a lot of PDF’s and FAQ’s about getting from your NLE to a print.
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Thanks! It’s those little things that drive you buggy sometimes.
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Seriosuly…. I thought HD was supposed to usher in an age of Gold Standards. I would love to settle on some whole number frame rates here in america.
I’m stunned by agencies that scoff at the idea we’re charging them hard costs to rent HD gear. Yes, it’s going to cost you $3k a week for a D5 machine…. yes we need to rent a HD BVM for final appovals and tweaks….. yes stock is a lot more expensive…. yes it’s going to take an extra 20 minutes to render this in HD. oh, you shot HDV? Well now I need to rent a JVC player because all we have is Sony. Are there dropouts on that bitsey little tape? Maybe you should’ve rented a Varicam. No upconverting DV50 will not look as good as 1080 from 35mm. Yes a HD telecine costs $600 more and hour. arrrgggghhhh!!!
and don’t even get me started on the other “it” phrase: “we want this to be viral.” 🙂
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Been there. Done that. You probably saved yourself some grey hairs.
The “it” word of the year is HD…which really means: a bunch of ignorant content people thinking that HD easily floats out the ass and onto the screen. To do HD right it’s going to cost extra money, take extra time, and needs to be supervised & edited by highly skilled FCP users that *knows* HD. HD is so much more complicated than NTSC… so many things can go wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing.
But maybe you’re in the posistions to bargain a better deal. Come in, save the day, all that…?
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Yeah, that doesn’t help…. Basically the changed the RT profile… I went into a room with 5.1.1 with less RAM and a slower G5 and it would still happily playback 10bit 1080 in an 8bit timeline…. oh well. so much for that.
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Great suggestion… no cigar. Basically I used to be able to put a 10 bit 1080 clip into an 8bit timeline, and it would playback at Full RT (quick way to rough in color and effects… and then go back to 10 bit timeline to make final adjustments). Now it’s all red/render.
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I just opened a 1080 project…. and over half the film comes up as “red/render.” No filters, no motion tab effects….. but there are other clips that play back… match frame and replace edit doesn’t fix it. 1080 clips play fine in source monitor…..