[Anotherproductioncompany]

Hi David,

Well, it was a long, painful process, but the short of it follows…

There was too much transcoding going on, and at the wrong places. I will dig up the exact routine later tonight and post it, but one of the main tricks was exporting the HDV timeline before fonts were added as a QT movie with a DV50 codec, then creating a new timeline with this setting and adding fonts. Like I said, I will post a more complete description once I confirm with my edit partner.

In order to get this solution, we purchased the $799 Applecare Pro Video support package, and spent a while on the phone with someone from Apple in CA to work through the details. We have this service for a year and hopefully will find more use for it!

Thanks for taking the time to read and inquire…have you had similar issues in your travels?

Best,

Alex
Another Production Company

[Anotherproductioncompany]

Thank you for the google terms! They worked and brought me to the feedback age, where I left the bug report. Very interesting on the difference you mention between your 2 test machines…I will go to Quicktime and attempt the downgrade…after a cursery look on the QT page I didn’t see the option to download a “downgrade” to a previous version, any ideas? I am somewhat hoping that there’s an issue with the Intel Pro system and QT, and maybe a simple fix is near! I am considering the $799 Applecare Pro-Video support package…do you think this is a worthwhile investment?

Thanks for taking the time to respond, it is really appreciated…Alex

[Anotherproductioncompany]

Under the sequence settings General tab it goes like this
Frame Size: 720X540 CCIR 601 NTSC 4X3
Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC-CCIR 601/DV 4X3
Field Dominance:: Lower
Editing Timebase: 29.97 FPS
QuickTime Video Settings
Compressor: Apple Pro RES 422 HQ
Quality: 100%
Audio Rate 48K
Depth: 16 Bit
Config: Channel Grouped.

I posted this problem on the Apple FCP forum…is there a specific “Feedback Forum” that is directed to Apple, versus users? In regards to the QT 7.2 bugs…should we uninstall QT and try installing a previous version?

Best…Alex

[Anotherproductioncompany]

Hi Walter,

Good question, and I will confirm this evening. What I can tell you is that the sequence setting is the new Apple Pro-Res 422 codec, and and the option “conform media to sequence settings” (or something like that) was checked. It is my understanding that the Pro-Res allows multiple formats to co-exist in the same timeline witouth user intervention/conversion…but I could be wrong.

I appreciate your assistance and will update the board with the sequence settings later tonight.

Alex