[Bob O’brien]

Thanks Rafael! That did the trick. (Seems so obvious now. It’s funny how in the heat of the battle sometimes you don’t think so clearly).

-Bob O’Brien

[Bob O’brien]

Thanks, John, for your reply.

You know what is ironic is that exporting with current settings ended up being the problem. After re-rendering and still finding the problem, I decided to try exporting using QT Conversion… Voila! Problem solved.

This was the first time I ever encountered this problem. Strange.

Thanks again.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3, Sony DSR570 DVCAM, DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*8-Core Mac Pro, 6 Gb RAM, 2 internal eSata drives, FW800 externals
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

Even if I start from scratch… import two clips from the original footage, place them in a new timeline, and do a cross dissolve between the them. With that is exported you can see a brightening of the out-going clip before the dissolve occurs.

By the way, this is betacam-sp footage which was digitized a few years ago on another fcp system.

I have trashed prefs, repaired permissions, and have even deleted all my render files – same problem.

CAMERAS
Sony EX3, Sony DSR570 DVCAM, DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*8-Core Mac Pro, 6 Gb RAM, 2 internal eSata drives, FW800 externals
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

Thanks, Steve. That’s pretty much what I am thinking… Except that the Cgm plug-ins have been working up until now.

[Bob O’brien]

Also, assuming you’re planning to use FCP on a 13″ – no thank you.

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

I do not have a way to use an SD SDI output so I don’t know about the quality of that output. But, the downconverted signal from S-video and composite is terrible.

[Bob O’brien]

Nelson,

Don’t use the EX3’s built-in down-converted signal. It’s awful. Totally unusable in fact.

So, take the HD-SDI out of the camera and run it through an external downconverter that will turn it to DV.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

Thanks all for taking the time to help.

I went back to the G5 since that’s where the first problem popped up. I managed to get project to open. Since it was already rendered, without clicking anything, I exported a movie of the timeline. Now at least I have my work saved, and I can move forward in a new project file. If they want changes… well, we’ll cross that bridge if we come to it.

Thanks.

Bob O’Brien

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

That is simply gross.

Hi Steve.

CAMERAS
Sony EX3

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite

[Bob O’brien]

You could try adding some blur, then sharpening – might help a little.

Bob

CAMERAS
Sony EX3 & Sony DXC637/PVV3 Betacam-SP

PORTABLE EDITING
*MacBook Pro – 2.33Ghz – 2Gb RAM
*Matrox MXO / 23″ Cinema Display

DESKTOP
*DualG5 2Ghz w/2.5Gb RAM
*UL4D SCSI Card
*HMV800 DualMax RAID0
*AJA IO
*Sony 2800

SOFTWARE
*OSX10.4.11, QT 7.5, FCP 6.0.4, Livetype 2.1.3, Soundtrack Pro 2.0.2, DVDSP4.2.1, Adobe CS3 Prod Suite