Aaron Neitz
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One thing to do before troubleshooting… maybe take that last full render, export as a self-contained Quicktime, and bring that back in. Otherwise it’s rendering your titles, plus whatever CC and stuff you have in the nest. In my experience – nesting can really foul things up. Plus this will give you a quicktime backup in case things do go bad.
Now try delete all your FCP prefs. Relaunch and see if that fixed the problem.
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Won’t get any arguments here. It’s been a bear ever since inception. Old coding in there that just doesn’t hack it when things get large.
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The Cohen Brothers and Murch probably get their dailies on HDCAM with sound pre-synced on tape by the lab. So all your problems don’t really exist for them.
On our last film that we had to sync from DATs, we simply did a speed ramp in FCP on our audio tracks (99.99%) after lining up the sticks. Don’t know if FCP’s slowdown sounds “as good as” ProTools, but sounded just fine to us, and went all the way through a theatrical mix without any complaints from our mix house.
What problems with keycode? I can’t speak from experience as we’ve never used Conform in Cinema Tools when keycode was a factor.
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DVCAM is 4:3 only so you’ll need to make a letterbox screening copy.
There is a slight chance the projectionist can take an anamorphic DVCAM (but if they’re asking for DVCAM in the first place, I’d bet against it). But might as well ask.
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FWIW, if I put up a 100% white solid, our Panny 10UK 37″ definitely looks grey compared to Cinema Display, but fairly close to my Sony CRT.
I think it’s the nature of LCD technology to have very bright whites. It’s not that your Panny is grey, but with a bright LCD to reference it against, it looks dimmer.
The panny looks gorgeous with regular footage – but pure white isn’t it’s strength.
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Make sure you’re creating 24fps files, and also make sure you’re creating Anamorphic Mpeg-2 (so things look squished). This should give you the best bang for an LCD
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Tough situation… Sean’s idea might be the best. Even a poorly calibrated CRT can be alright for a client viewing… but the preset modes that I’ve seen on many LCD’s are beyond terrible. Uber crushed blacks, blooming whites, saturation pushed, edge enhancement cranked, 9500K white point….
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What kind of Mac are you on? Those are high numbers, but if you’re on a G4 that’s about right
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Ah. Black bar = There’s a sync issue. The deck should have 1) been synced with the same BB generator as your Decklink or 2) been in “input video” sync mode when you laid off.
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very odd. Are you using the confidence heads to monitor the Digibeta?