Blair Mcnaughton
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Anyone had any luck on a proper fix for this? Extremely annoying…
One workaround I’ve discovered…
Go into Sequence Settings and set to the following (this worked with my 16×9 DV PAL footage):
Frame Size: 1024×576, Aspect Ratio: Custom
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square, uncheck Anamorphic 16:9
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422 HQYour footage will be squished, so to fix you’ll need to go into the motion tab of one of your clips and set Scale to 143, and Distort to -43.
Copy and Paste Attributes to the rest of your clips.
Don’t know why but for some reason those particular settings seem to work without requiring any rendering.
Hope this is helpful to someone.
Be sure to reset everything before exporting.
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Did you have any luck finding out anything about turning these off?
As pointed out above you can go Modify > Mark in Sync. But you have to do it one clip at a time, which can be very time consuming if your timeline looks like this.
Very annoying – especially because none of the clips are actually out of sync.
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Yeah, I’ve actually heard similar things with regards to CD-R’s failing after about 5 years.
As I said, this info is not at all definitive… And worse, is probably mostly speculative. Hell, DVDs have barely been around long enough to be able to live up to its claim of 10-30 years… And we’ll have to wait 100 years to find out if Blu-ray lives up to its claim!
I think it also depends on the type of DVD-R you get as well. I believe there are specialist archive-grade DVDs around. Though my pricing was based on a standard spindle of 50 DVD-Rs.
Also, one thing I forgot to mention was that I’ve been warned off Dual-layered DVDs… apparently they’re even more unreliable and more prone to data loss than DVDs. Also, I’ve just realised that I had “+R” in my original post… My pricing was actually based on “-R”… not sure if that makes any difference…?
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I’ve been doing a little research into archive solutions with regard to P2 media.
After looking into LTO tapes, Hard drives, DVDs and Blu-ray there seems to be no clear winner. Here’s how it breaks down (all prices in NZ dollars):
LTO3:
– Most expensive setup cost (the cost of the drive itself) at around $2000. In terms of tapes, it works out to about $0.19 /GB
– Large storage space (200GB or 400GB compressed) on the one I looked at.
– Approx. 30+ year lifetime.
– Write speed is quite slow when compared to DVD. Read speed is quite slow (due to the fact it has to do it sequentially. IE it’s not random access).HDD:
– Relatively cheap, around $0.48 /GB with no setup costs.
– Storage space varies, but significantly larger than DVD or Blu-ray.
– Unreliable. 3-5 year lifetime.
– Harder to store.
– Very fast write speed, random access.DVD+R:
– Cheapest of all options at $0.18 /GB.
– Comparatively very small storage space.
– Fast write speed compared to Blu-ray and LTO.
– 10-30 year lifetime.
– Less reliable. Prone to damage.Blu-ray:
– Most expensive at $1.41 /GB. Setup cost of around $1200 for burner.
– 50GB at dual layer. A lot larger than DVD, but still small when compared to LTO or HDD.
– Slow write speed (around an hour per 25GB depending on burner).
– Apparently very robust. 100+ year lifetime.Take from that what you will. This information was taken from various places on the net, so is by no means definitive.
A few thoughts of my own: To me, Blu-ray seems like a very viable solution. The 100+ year lifetime may sound a bit ridiculous, but I’ve spoken to several people who have said that they are incredibly robust and that really the only way to destroy the information is to physically snap the disc.
Of course, a huge advantage to the Blu-ray solution for those of us in the video profession is that buying the bruner gives you the ability to master high def Blu-ray discs (with the right software, of course). Which is a huge plus, espcially if working with the HVX.
And prices are coming down on the burners fast. I compiled this information only a couple of months ago, but recently I’ve seen a burner for $800 that claims to write 25GB in 25 minutes!
My research into HDD storage has been widely varied. Ultimately I’ve concluded that it is complete luck as to when or whether you HDD will crash on you. I’ve obviously had a lot of bad luck – in the year we’ve been in business we’ve lost a total of six external drives. Completely randomly. Thus, I personally have vowed to never use them again as a storage system.
At the moment we’ve resorted to using DVDs to archive until we make a decision. It’s been working fine so far… Though it is a pain having to manually split the 16GB folders into 4GB segments…
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I just had this exact same problem as well as a few other FCS2 oddities… (transition previews not playing correctly in DVDSP, behaviour previews not playing correctly in Motion)
I disconnected one of my monitors and all the problems seem to have corrected themselves.
Thanks!
Now, why would it be doing this? Is there a way to continue using two monitors and maintain proper functionality of FCS2?
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Argh, I’m such an idiot… I forgot about the SmoothCam filter in FCP. I actually only want to smooth footage, not stabilize it, so this filter is perfect.
However, it doesn’t give as great control as you get inside Motion. And it doesn’t allow you to keep playing the footage while you adjust the settings.
And it seems if you send a single clip to Motion, it will indeed keep the analysis info, but if you send a sequence of clips it will only keep the analysis info for the first clip. Which is kinda pointless because it means you have to reanalyse all the other clips individually.
It looks like the SmoothCam feature inside FCP might be the best solution for my situation.
Thanks for your help!
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Nevermind… Did it by just using a null object as focus point and moving the null to achieve focus pull.
Thanks.
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Thanks! Huge help! But yeah, render times are nuts… 40+ hours for a 16 second clip at DV resolution… yikes!
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Anyone else having trouble downloading? 🙁
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That is seriously cool. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!