[Chris Holmes]

Problem returned again this morning. I think it might be the settings that I’ve brought forward.

But I seem to have a way to make it go away.

I move the composer window to my second monitor, and switch user settings to a new setting. Then move the composer window back to the iMac screen. Mark an IN. See if it’s gone. It has been. Then switch my settings back to my usual settings and it’s gone.

Hope this hocus-pocus works.

[Chris Holmes]

It worked for me, but then the next day it was back.

Then I thought it might be my user settings that I brought over from the Mac Pro. So I switched to a new user setting and it seemed to go away. Then I switched back to my old settings and it was still gone. Go figure.

But this morning the problem had returned again!!

This time I managed to get it to go away by making sure that the source / recored composer window didn’t touch anything else on the desktop. Including the menu bar. It’s been fine since I did that.

It reminded me of an old quirk in the early versions of Media Composer Express. Where if anything was touching the composer window it wouldn’t playback video in it.

If all else fails it does work in the second monitor. But I’ll see what happens when a new 27″ 2K monitor replaces the old 24″ second display.

Fingers crossed it doesn’t return!

[Chris Holmes]

I’ve been having the same issue after switching from 2010 Power Macs to 27″ iMac 5K.

The problem seems to be that I moved the main monitor menu bar in System Pref /Display to the 24″ second monitor.

When I moved the menu bar back to the iMac screen the zooming problem disappeared. You’ll have to quit Media Composer to get this change to register.

[Chris Holmes]

I had the same problem when I first started using MC 6.0 with a Wacom Intuos 4. However I don’t recall changing anything inorder to get the problem to go away.

In fact I think it happened only when I was cutting on my old MBP with a Graphire tablet, and not at all on my iMac.

I’m now on MC 6.0.3, OS 10.7.5 and I haven’t had it happen in ages.

Sorry I don’t have an answer to how it was solved. knock on wood.

[Chris Holmes]

Yup, I agree with Shane. Probably the copying process.

ShotPut Pro is great, you do get 10 or so transfers with the trial version.

I use a free program called Copy Verified. It does the same thing, more or less. There is a version with a front interface that makes it easy to use. Since I started using that, no corrupt files in transfer / backup.

[Chris Holmes]

I made a switch back to Media Composer earlier this year, and I’m just finishing my first project.

Most of the footage was recorded as ProRes, with some EXCAM, and XDCAM footage in there as well.

I used AMA to bring in the original footage, and transcoded it all to DNxHD 36 for offline. It worked great for offline cutting. I simply set up a large transcode to happen overnight.

I’ve had no problem relinking the picture lock to the original files, and am now going to transcode the picture lock to DNxHD 175 to pass on for online.

Cheers
Chris

[Chris Holmes]

It’s simply a film clutter clip on v2 using the screen composite mode.

[Chris Holmes]

I’ve been using SyncVue for years. Great program for review and markup, with XML export to FCP. It runs in conjunction with Skype.

It’s not a live view of the timeline that has been added to FCS3.

It’s now called Fuze Movie.

https://fuzebox.com/fuzemovie/

[Chris Holmes]

Thanks, I didn’t think of dropping the 720p60 into a 720p30 sequence. I’ll give that a try.

I did a test with compressor on a clip, it worked just fine dropping the extra frames and converting from 59.94 to 29.97 fine. I do worry about the TC being right as this is an offline edit.

Perhaps I’ll try and get my hands on a deck, I’d feel better about it if I could do a recapture test.

Chris

[Chris Holmes]

Oh, well. It was worth investigating.

I’m right in between projects, and thought about upgrading. I think I’ll wait until Snow Leopard. Still on Tiger.

I’m looking around at HD monitoring. I was interested in the MXO until I saw I loose dual screen editing.

I’m mainly offline editing so I’m leaning to trying the MXO2 mini. Used the AJA IO for years. But I’m not too keen on the price tag of the IOHD, and the IO express seems to be lacking up/down conversion.