Christoph Vonrhein
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John,
I don’t think that there is something wrong with OSX. It is more likely that FCP is “messed up”.
You said that you have the problem with all FxPlug plugins from all developers. This points to a damaged FCP installation, as we now found out that it is not your 3870 graphics card. A clean FCP re-install would be my next suggestion.
Christoph
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Christoph Vonrhein
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Does this also happen when you use the internal FxPlug plugins of FCP ?
and: Does this also happen when you use Motion and use the same plugins ?
I think that there is a chance that the graphics card is damaged, as especially FxPlug plugins heavily use the graphics card to render.
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Christoph Vonrhein
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Some effects look different in preview mode compared to the final rendered video. This is because some plugins use different (speed optimized) routines with a lower quality for the preview mode. It is possible that the filter you use is just buggy.
Do you use the internal page peel effect of FCP or one from a 3rd party developer ?
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Bummer.
Then I would create the video in PAL. The higher resolution is more important.
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Christoph Vonrhein
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Christoph Vonrhein
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Render it twice. Once for PAL and once for NTSC. Modern 3D software gives you the option to define more than one render setting.
A conversion is always a compromise. Converting from PAL to NTSC would be the better choice in terms of the resolution. But in both ways you will get a frame-rate problem. Especially for a 3D animation you need to render at the frame rate you want to deliver the final video in order to avoid any conversion problems.
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David,
the whole thing was a little confusing (without anybodies intention). I got the order and sent a request for the MAC address from the original customer. The reply with the MAC address got stuck in a spam filter (as I assume). Then you go to this discussion board, hoping that I see your message. (Note: I read this board, but not necessarily every day, so I did not see your message right away.) Your message from the board got forwarded by Steve Eisen as a PM to me at Ken Stone’s discussion board (Thanks Steve!!). So I thought “Did David buy something ? Did Steve buy something ? Did PayPal screw up and I got no confirmation email ? (…which happens from time to time) What’s going on ?”.
The original order came from a different name and email address, so I did not see the connection. In the meantime I got another message from the original customers email and I replied and sent the ordered keyfile.
It’s just one of those days. 🙂
That’s the reason why I don’t automate the whole order process. There are just too many things that can go wrong. Mix-up of Email addresses, outdated email addresses registered at PayPal (or Kagi), email accounts that are just full and I can’t send anything to the customer. Then there are spam and virus filters… Oh, well.
🙂
Back to XCode to write more software… (Btw: Any requests ?)
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Hi David,
When and under which name did you place your order ? Did you place your order through PayPal or Kagi ?I don’t see an order from you anywhere. Did I miss something ?
I always respond to orders asap. Sometimes it can take a few hours when it is nighttime or I am traveling.
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…and also: Why doesn’t have GREEN fringing.
The answer is quite complicated and actually even goes back to the way how color is encoded in a former black-and-white analog stream for TV sets in the 1960’s. So let’s make it as simple as possible to avoid a 147 page excursion:
Our eyes are way more sensitive to BW (black and white) than to colors. So back then in the 60’s when they invented the PAL and NTSC system, color was only encoded with less then half the bandwidth of the BW signal. When DV cameras were invented and everything was not analog anymore, this thought was still alive and color was continued to be encoded with a portion of the bandwidth of BW.
The reason why you see this effect with red the best is a human reason: Red is a very strong color and is recognized by our eyes very easily. Red traffic lights, red warning signs (“Poison! Don’t eat this.”), blood is red (also a warning). No other color stands out that much as red. A green traffic sign in a red forest would barely be recognized. A red traffic sign in a green forrest stands out.
Blue is not important to our eyes, as only 11% of the white spectrum is blue.
In the end, when you look very closely, all colors have fringing. It’s just red that stands out so much and suffers from the lower resolution and from the higher compression rate compared to the BW signal.
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If you are using a DV codec then this effect is normal, as the color information is not encoded in the stream in each and every pixel. In simple terms: Colored pixels have a lower resolution than black and white pixels.
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The FX4500 (as well as the newer FX5600) are good graphics cards, but for FCS these cards don’t do anything special. The cards have some 3D capabilities that are complete ignored by FCS.
Currently the top of the line and fastest graphics cards for FCS are the ATI X1900 and the GeForce 8800 GT. And the best part about this is: These card are way cheaper.
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Christoph