[Becky Geear]

Are people still experiencing this problem? Any rumor of a fix on the horizon? I’m on 10.0.7 and I’m cranking out between 4-6 videos a day and each one has the Undo bug. I’ve narrowed it down to whenever I do correction to exposure and saturation. Every single time I have to work on a video I must quit between projects and re-launch and my patience is wearing thin.

Trashing preferences doesn’t seem to work for me. It still happens after I make my adjustment and get the “bonk” when I cmd+Z.

Just curious if this is still an ongoing problem for others.

Thanks!
Becky

[Becky Geear]

Ok, sounds good. I’ll give the reinstall a whirl if the preferences trick doesn’t solve it.

Thanks for your help, Mark. I appreciate it!

[Becky Geear]

Thanks, Mark. I’ll delete all the preferences and cross my fingers that works. =)

The images I received are all 678×599. (5 in total) That doesn’t seem particularly large to me (I’m working in 1920×1080 for my project). Perhaps I should change my project size?

[Becky Geear]

Oh, thanks Mark! I feel like an idiot, but thank you. Found it. I notice that there are more than one preference file. Since I’m new to trashing preferences do I trash them all or just the com.apple.motionapp.plist?

Do you have any idea why Motion would lock up on a simple framing effect? I went to your classes at NAB this last year and thought this was a very cool and easy way to move the camera. However, my computer thinks otherwise. =P

[Becky Geear]

A screen shot of my preferences folder. I’m assuming the Motion preference file should be between the loginwindow.plist and the P2Supervisor.plist, but it’s missing. Unless, I’m completely off my rocker and am forgetting my alphabet. A search in Spotlight doesn’t bring up any results.

[Becky Geear]

I hadn’t even thought of it as a keyboard failure issue. That’s a great suggestion. Thanks so much and I’ll give it a try.

Becky

[Becky Geear]

hahaha….wouldn’t that be something? After all this, “Oh wait……it WAS shot with a 5d!” hahaha…. Yeah, as far as I know it wasn’t shot with a DSLR. So at least I got that part right. 😉

Yeah, now that I feel like I have egg all over my face it was something simple. However, I’m still not sure why I was having encoding problems as well….with it truncating the footage and removing graphics (on a totally separate project). I responded to Jeremy’s last post with another problem I was having (and listed in my original post). It’s a promotional video sent to me in an .mp4 format. Just had to add a graphic. Same exporting problems (all corrupted and wonky)…then when I finally got it out clean Episode stripped the graphic I added and corrupted part of the video.

Is this along the lines of the same issue?

[Becky Geear]

Oh for crying out loud…. Yep, you’re right. It all makes perfect sense and I totally know about the whole issue with H.264. But for whatever reason (probably being overworked) 😉 I simply missed it and it didn’t even click. Even when I typed it. Doh!

Now I can’t remember exactly how the footage was converted because it was almost a month ago and usually I stay away from H.264 upon converting, but it must have slipped since that’s how the sequence was set. Yes?

Light bulb moment. Thank you, Jeremy. I feel completely stupid now. =P hahaha

But I do have another question for you….because I was having problems with another project…. Now in this instance I had to add a graphic to a promotional video created by someone else. This video was given to us as an .mp4. Same issue. Haven’t had much experience using the .mp4 format…so does FCP not like those as well?

[Becky Geear]

Ok, great. Thanks Jason. I figured it might take awhile, but wanted something to gauge it by so I didn’t think it was stalled, etc.

I went ahead and exported a version out of FCP with Apple Pro Res 422 1920×1080 30p and it exported it in its entirety and was clean. No corruption.

I will let you know how the Compressor route turns out.

Becky

[Becky Geear]

Hey Jeremy,

Here’s what we’re looking at:

For this particular video I’m running a sequence with the following parameters. 1920×1080 with a Square pixel ratio at a frame rate of 29.97. The sequence is also set to have a compressor of H.264.

Now as for the footage on this project I was given MTS files without a parent directory so I had to run them through Wondershare to convert them.

After converting the files, I brought them into Final Cut. What I usually do is drop a piece of footage on to the timeline and it asks me if I want to change the timeline to match the footage. This I always do. After editing the video (with nothing out of the ordinary occurring) I exported the video as I always do using Current Settings. If I remember correctly, Final Cut unexpectedly quit once or twice while trying to export. But I was able to finally get a complete file out of it.

It was only after this that I realized I had forgotten to place our end credits on the video. So I went back into Final Cut, added the graphics and went to export again. This is when FCP kept crashing and unexpectedly quitting time and time again. I had finally had enough and manually went through and trashed the preferences. And this is when everything went haywire.

Doing the exact same thing I had previously (and again always) done — I exported using Current Settings and I could not get a clean file. Everything came out completely corrupted and has been ever since using that particular setting.

It strikes me odd that I got a clean video out of FCP once with the old preferences and couldn’t after trashing them. And then this leads into numerous other problems that I stated above. If you have any enlightenment or advice I would love to hear it.

Thanks!
Becky