Andrew Hecker
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I get my picture back to normal by applying a gamma level of .5 On a second computer, I don’t have the same problem with the same file, so it must be a set up issue on this one computer. What could it be?
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Add to that, I have changed the Easy Setup settings to 24p and it still imports stills as 29.97. It ignores its own settings. The real bad part about this is that no developer will ever be able to fix this.
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99.9% or whatever estimate you make to this is not mathematically accurate for syncing 5.1 sound with lipsync. This stuff should be an exact frame accurate match. That’s technically how all sound works, two files, the video frame sequence @ frame rate, displayed with a sound file at whatever data/sampling rate.
By the way, the only solution I found to this sync issue was to export each track with a video track tied to it. For 5.1 that was two stereo pairs and two mono tracks. That will copy and paste directly into the timeline in sync. Once I assembled the tracks I was able to export the .mov file with 5.1 in tact.
Curiously, even after creating a proper audio track tied to video, you cannot separate the two, like extracting or copying and pasting. That will result in a 23.98 audio track again. So to me, this seems like a flaw in the QT time flag–a design error.
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Let me re-address this. I’m doing virtually the same thing, FCP 7 timeline @ 24fps (let me be clear, its 24, not 23.98, nothing has 23.98 in any setting anywhere I can find) ProRes 422 1920×1080.
I’ve exported a .mov without audio I exported, first .aif files (my timeline mix has groups of discrete tracks for each level of the mix–I mute the ones not needed for each purpose track). I first a surround window in compressor. I started with the .mov file and “add surround sound” ended up with all the activity on a separate track. Frustrated with getting a new window, I tried to link the video back to that track “add video” but it would not accept the .mov file because it didn’t have audio. For some reason its not as basic as it looks and I don’t know why. So I came here.
So this recommends exporting .wav files and doing it in FCP. So I put the .mov into a FCP timeline. I let it use settings that match the clip. First I dropped in an .aif file. Funny, the .aif, made from the same time line DOES NOT sync with video. I have sync marks at the start and end, the audio is short by 5:12 over (slightly over) an hour and a half program. The video file matches the length of the original file exactly. .wav files created from the same timeline do the same thing and needless to say, the resultant lipsync is gone. I haven’t even gotten to trying to make 5.1 with this craziness happening.
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I don’t see a solution mentioned here. I am getting a consistent glitch on rendered elements using a simple Livetype overlay over an AE effect. So the AE is a continuous, clean mov file in ProRes–nothing to suspect. The Livetype file is at the same resolution 1920×1080. When I drop the overlay in, the background (AE file) shifts color. When the Livetype finishes, it shifts again.
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I gave him footage (H.264 shot in a Canon camera), chopped up in FCP, of certain long takes and our select segments to key.
He did the work in AE and gave it back to me, to place our scenes over the background I am editing in FCP.
When I place his product over anything in FCP I get no alpha. In PNG, I don’t even know if it is a viable alpha containing codec. I’ve never seen that one work. So that’s the first question, is it viable to transport alpha. If it is, how do I know he put an alpha on it? How do I see the alpha channel, or possibly extract it to use the thing? Its not working at all now. I have a couple of hours of totally useless footage of our subject, that was shot on a green background, now on a black background. -
I’ve looked at it from every direction I can imagine, OK I don’t know where the hidden stuff is . . .
I don’t know how to see the alpha channel independently, or even if it is there.I need it to key, to alpha in FCP 7.
In everything I look at, I see black: QT, FCP, AE4, Bridge
When I place it over another image in FCP or AE is still see black.