Bryson Jones
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Editing XML is not too tough, that’s all I meant. If you bought your software from a dealer, they should have an engineer who could help you edit those XML files to match.
I’m curious to see what the Squarebox dudes have to say about this. But I will say that FCP projects with any non standard characters in the clip, sequence or bin names will cause all sorts of drama. Make sure no one is using /’s in their names!
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Are there too many to just use the built in integration? As in, reading the FCP projects from the tree in catdv?
If so, then I’ll bet this is something simple. There’s a holiday in the UK today so Rolf may not be watching the forums, but could you try one project brought in through the tree?
See if that receives the XML correctly.
Also, know that FCP regularly sets the anamorphic flag incorrectly, so it may be the XML itself coming from FCP that’s problematic. I’ve seen issues where FCP mis-reads the flag so CatDV seems to be wrong but it’s actually FCP that’s jerking the aspect ratio around by setting the flag twice, in effect.
As a test, play the QT files with QT player, CatDV (drag them in raw) and import into FCP. That way you can see how they are displayed in each case and figure out which app’s messing with the aspect ratio.
The good news is that your integrator should be able to easily edit the XML, if FCP is reporting it incorrectly.
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Ok, chalk one up for Rolf. 😉
My proxy problem was one of patience. We weren’t waiting long enough on the proxy to complete.
The progress bar in Java seems a bit random, so for us, we just waited a bit, at Rolf’s suggestion, and sure enough, it completed. Again, we weren’t seeing an error.
Patience is a virtue after all. 😉
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First, thanks to Sun @ icomputer denver for hosting me out in CO. Then, the FCPUG there for showing up in such force and then, of course, my man, Tom from Cache-A for showing us where to put everything. 😉
The snow didn’t stop the show, and I’m grateful.
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I’m seeing this too now on a clip that’s 23.98 Pro res 422 HQ.
Trying to find a point of coincidence, but QT X will export it. This one’s on OSX server 10.6 but even machines on 10.5.8 can’t do it. Weird.
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Can you see any coincidence as far as the format of the original file?
The factory guys will have to address the error specifically, but I know that sometimes certain original media codecs give me trouble in catalogs with mixed media types.
Keep track of what fails. Also, try making a few locally to make sure it’s not network related first.
good luck!
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Ok, more info, it happens in FCP7 as well. Though the transfers between projects seem smoother. (this may be speculation)
There’s no word on this, pretty much anywhere. So the word is, Apple will fix my iPhone, but God help us if we make TV shows. 😉
Thanks guys,
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I can speak to the resize and ram stuff, Rolf will need to weigh in on the other.
The ram? Yep, jack it up a bit, that’s just a suggestion/starting point.
As to the interface resize issue, I believe that’s a Java thing. The double edged sword of having a cross platform app is that we deal with the evil J word. 😉 That’s also why some buttons and keyboard shortcuts don’t map into the app.
One of my clients originally had the VL added to the code (yes, you can “buy” features in CatDV, how cool is that?) But it was a bare bones implementation meant for reality show logging and so doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of the main player. We literally map tracks in out QT files and use the system prefs to hear one track or the other in headphones.
I’ll let Rolf speak to the other stuff, but that’s what I know of that part of the app.
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For now, maybe create a new “tape” field, that’s a user field and then Bulk Edit (under the “Tools” menu) the tape name into that new field. That way you could search it.
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If you click the “Customise” button and go into the video settings you can set a size in the QT dialog box, that’s anything you like.
It should override the first pulldown window in the “P&T” preference pane.
Try that and see if it works it out.
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