Cory Caplan
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The assumption is that I’ll fedex it. I’m in Virginia.
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Oops.. Yeah, Virginia. I just assumed that I was going to have to fedex the tape…
Cory
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oh my god yes. I have a specific script in soundtrack pro because I can’t get the boneheads at the audio post houses to send me mixes in anything other than 44.1.
Really easy to demonstrate. Drop a 48k aif generated in st pro onto a new 30 fps timeline. No red bar. New timeline, change to 29.97, drop the aif, red bar. No difference either way with audio settings in the sequence (16 vs 24 bit etc) is my install corrupt or something? Am i missing so
ething obvious?And no, its not a QuickTime. My god man what do you take me for? (yet another reason file extensions are a good thing and apple needs to fully commit and start enforcing them)
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That’s what’s bizarre– timeline is lower field dominant. But the footage is totally progressive– so why would it be soft?? If it had to re-interlace, I could at least understand.. but it should be a snap to first scale down, and then generate appropriate pulldown.. But I guess that’s too much to ask.
Cory
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I don’t have digi anything, deckwise, so that’s out.. (well, other than DV….) It handles it okay, even though it’s adding pulldown, and then scaling an interlaced signal? Maybe it will help the softness too, who knows…
Thanks.
Cory
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Capture Card, Check. 20k DVCPRO HD deck > my entire rig? Not so much.. 🙂 We rent that when we need to ingest.. it all lives “native” digital.. Will checkout the plug.. Are you using with 6.0.2 and it works? (knock on wood?)
Cory
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Well, as my jaw hits the floor, just off the top of my head, why not do it in after effects? Or why not just take prerendered graphics and put it over your AVID timeline?
Motion templates were in the top 5 reasons I switched to FCS– if not #1. I have many, many, many, many graphics in the commercials I do. I’m still praying that maybe, one day I might be able to save some time by doing my graphics using a template that can be updated in FCP as promised without taking much longer than prerendering everything manually like I was doing before.
And the other reason?
FCP sucks high holy balls with realtime alpha. Not to mention some truly insanely bizarre behavior with “straight” alphas mixed in with scaling artifacts and disolves.So, my graphical sophie’s choice in FCP is do everything manually– the way I was doing it before, only instead of bringing into my AVID which plays nicely with realtime alphas, into FCP which I then have to RERENDER which, by the way, takes only 40%-80% of my processor instead of the 400% it’s capable of– Or I can just suck it up, use the motion templates, and have a lot of coffee/snack breaks while I rack up hours I can’t bill for, as I’m on a production contract based on the finished product..
Yeah, great workaround.
Sorry, it’s really, really not personal, but I would love some backup from folks in the form of vocal disappointment towards Apple with these issues– They are not delivering what they promised. They are LIARS, and instead of REALLY FIXING IT, they now allow us to drop the quality to make up for their lackluster coding. Thanks guys.
I’m beginning to think I’m in a very very very small minority of people who push their systems very hard… If a lot of people were experiencing these totally illogical slowdowns on a regular basis, there’d be a fullscale riot in cupertino.
Let me see if my render is done…
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Are you asking if I changed anything in the motion template? If so, the answer is no… I certainly have never “reconnected” the media, if that is what you are asking…
Cory
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As the other poster stated, you can now set quality preferences in the FCP timeline, however, this is akin to putting a bandaid on an amputation… Yes, you can drop the quality to make up for the piss poor rendering times, however, FCP just took 2 minutes to render a 7 second text type-on effect from Motion, utilizing only 40% of CPU (out of 400%). Same effect in Motionr”best settings” renders to disk in 18 seconds.
Also, I turned off all other layers to test, just so it would be a fair fight.
The motion-templates emperor still has no clothes.
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The former– I’m trying to overwrite an existing file, whether with photoshop, motion, or whatever..
FCP seems to be the worst offender– I can delete the file from the bin, and it’s still “in use” — even if I close the project. It won’t release the file until I exit FCP completely. But all the pro apps have some of the same issues. (Oddly enough sending a file to a soundtrack pro script doesn’t have this problem– I have one that converts to 48k, overwriting the same file, and that works using right click>send to>soundtrack pro script. I assume “send to” specifically closes the file, becasue they know it needs to be overwritten elsewhere.
Way OT: Speaking of which, why do all audio houses insist on delivering in 44.1 no matter what you tell them?) Dear local audio houses, when is the last time you delivered something on CD? Oh, 2001? Can you PLEASE STOP OPERATING IN 44.1?? THANKS! /OT