[Bill Dewald]

I’ve seen this before – its a problem with the adapter.

I’m not a cameraman, but this is how I understand it – 35mm adapters have a spinning ground glass component to them. The lens that attaches directly to the video camera must be properly focused so that the ground glass becomes invisible.

If not, it totally ruins the shot. I played around with blurring and resharpening, different color channels, with color correction, nothing works. You’ll have to live with it, or reshoot it.

[Bill Dewald]

There’s also a section in the manual called “Example: Recompressing Media Files for an entire Project for Editing on a Powerbook”

its on page IV-101 in my set…

… ya learn something new every day…

[Bill Dewald]

Thanks for the detailed answers….

When anything malfunctions in FCP, the first thing I do is trash the prefs. Might be a quick fix.

When you did the clean install on your new drive, did you run the Software Update utility until it had no new updates. You say ‘the latest and greatest’ which would be FCS 2, and also FCP 5.0. Which version are you running?

Also, it seems like your machine is below the 5.1.4 specs – here’s what I dug up –

A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor

Reinstalling 4.5 might be your best bet. It’s tough to find out that it might not work now that you’re already into your project.

[Bill Dewald]

Ok – I’ve always been warned from the start never to put media on the system drive, so I don’t have any personal/horror story to share. I’ve helped friends with system trouble, and not capturing to the startup drive has often solved problems. This is how I understand it (in my non comp/sci mind) –

Editing video requires a large amount of memory and data transfer. There are processes that the system uses the startup drive for that happen simultaneously while video is accessed (i.e. virtual memory and other system processes). Attempting to edit video stored on the system drive can reek havoc with these system processes, causing instability and data loss. Additionally, the constant data access will put a lot of wear on your relatively fragile, internal laptop drive.

Apple touches on this in Volume I, Part III, Chapter 14 – “Determining Your Hard Disk Storage Options”.

I’d look for a small f/w drive that you can make work on-the-go. Hope this helps – Bill

[Bill Dewald]

Its not recommended. Media needs to be on a separate drive.

If you want to learn the hard way, read up on the “Media Manager” – that’s the tool within FCP that can create alternate versions of your source footage.

But, its a bad idea. Don’t do it, in this case.

[Bill Dewald]

Have you trashed your prefs?

Does this effect all of your clips?

When did this start – mid-session, after a reboot? Can you create a new project and test that?

Are the effects in the menu ghosted? Can you drop effects from the browser onto the clip in the sequence? Can you paste attributes from other clips that may have filters already?

[Bill Dewald]

Quick cuts are nothing new:

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from 1927

[Bill Dewald]

Excellent – i use a very similar naming convention. Can’t wait to geek out to all the details.

[Bill Dewald]

and there it is… took 15 mins for the whole process.

Thanks for speaking up, DRW!

[Bill Dewald]

Ok, it’s crunching on YouTube.

i made a 5 minute spinning test pattern, and exporting using the H.264-LAN settings on Compressor:

H.264 – 640×480 – 29.97 fps – 1.405 Mpbs

The resulting file was 52.7 MB. I uploaded it to my YouTube account. It took eight minutes to upload, and now its processing.

This is where i ran into pitfalls before – it would take an inordinate amount of processing before the video was available. In a former job, it was very important to have fast access to the videos, which is why I used the specs listed earlier.

It began processing at 4:06 PDT… i’ll try to keep an eye on it. Here’s the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ1yMu0cwuU

C’mon, cow, lets make this the #1 viral test pattern in history!

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