[Damion Demeter]

Holy Crap!!!!!!

I don’t know if you still are having this post send you alerts when someone replies, or if you will read this, but I had to post a HUGE thank you!

I got a MacPro (upgraded from a G5) a little bit back, and one project I was working on traveled through the transition since it was still not locked by the time I got fed up and wanted to use my new computer. Things were going fine when I transfered everything over (fresh install of FCP and all non-shipped software) so I sold my old computer after about 3 weeks of smooth sailing (so I thought).

When the project was done, I went to print to tape, and all my FX plugins would show a red screen saying plugin failed to render. I was confused and scared I would have to get rid of all those plugin choices and figure something else out since I am at deadline.

I searched all the apple forums and cow forums with no help. Then I came upon this post. I figured what the hell, and gave it a try. I was missing the smoothca.fxplug folder. Why? I have no clue, as I said, it’s a fresh install of FCP on an out of the box computer.

I don’t know the cause, but am glad I stumbled on this post and now my fxplugins all work again!! Thanks for figuring this out, and even more thanks for posting the solution!!!!

Now, if I could just figure out why I get odd “refresh” looking lines sometimes on playback with this 8800 GT, where I didn’t get them before on this monitor with the old computer…I’ll be a happy camper. 🙂

thanks again!!!
-Damion

[Damion Demeter]

ohh i see what you’re saying. just check if the color problems are still there! thanks! I will try it!!

[Damion Demeter]

Thanks for the reply!

I was almost thinking about sending it off as a test and letting them know it might have a problem, but I’m worried that if it IS something odd going on, I still wont know the answer to solve it.

The odd thing is when I export it with the settings i use to upload HD footage on vimeo, it looks fine. What I am worried about tho, is for vimeo, I use the h.246 codec, and deinterlace it.

And I am not knowledgeable enough in the full range of codecs and bluray authoring to know if this will cause a problem on the TV/bluray side of things. I don’t even have a bluray drive/deck to test it on. :/

any thoughts?

[Damion Demeter]

i take it from the lack of replies I am alone on this one? :/

[Damion Demeter]

this site is great. I just did a quick search and already found some great stuff!! thanks so much.

one question tho…is it all royalty free? I’m assuming it is since you can download them, but wanted to see if you knew different.

thanks again! this really helps.

-Damion

[Damion Demeter]

[Shane Ross] “It wouldn’t be possible as I don’t do it without the Kona card. I always use the Kona. Sorry.”

Well, what should my settings for my HD timeline be? The “I thought you were editing native HD” made me think I had my settings jacked up.

In the future I will just capture HDV directly from my drive into FCP, and I will do the same timeline down conversion since it seems to be the way to do it without a kona card (btw I did export it in a way that looked nice…so that problem was solved with a little trial and error) but if you could let me know the timeline settings I should be using…next project I should be at least starting with the correct settings for everything.

Thanks for all the info. it’s helped.

-D

[Damion Demeter]

[walter biscardi] “This is because HD is Upper Field First and DV is Lower Field First. Your resulting file will not be very clean.”

Is there any way around this? I read somewhere also that the standard def timeline should have the field dominance set to none. Is this to avoid the problem you are talking about?

-D

[Damion Demeter]

[Shane Ross] “You read wrong. FCP captures HDV just fine, and does so with the ever important time code information. iMovie does not capture with TC information…and only captures as AIC, not native HDV like FCP can.”

Hmm, then why did I keep reading fcp can not capture and edit native HD unless you run it through iMovie like I did? :/

Edit: I just re-read the article on kenstone.net….and it was for fcp 4.5. Did fcp 5 change this? Maybe that is where I went wrong. (Here’s a link to the article in case you wanted to see what steps I followed.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/review_hdv_raid_soltz.html

[Shane Ross] “Why aren’t you capturing and working as native HDV?”

See….I thought I was. :/

Would it be possible for you to tell me your workflow for editing HD and then down converting to DV (without the use of a kona card…I can’t afford one just yet). I would sure appreciate it since it sounds like you are much more familair with best practices for HD than I am.

I know I just need to get the best practice workflow and timeline settings down…there’s just a lot I am not so sure of in the HD world still.

-D