[Danny Perez-triana]

fcp rescue didn’t seem to do anything, if it’s just as simple as pressing the trash button?

could it be a memory thing with external harddrives? i have 5 each partitioned into two partitions.

i’m stumped,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

so the resolution of my ae clips matches that of my sequence and of other clips in timeline (footage digitized into fc), and i’m still getting screwey playback with RT set to safe, high, and full. the playback was messed up when set to dynamic as well.

i’m running a macpro with fc6 and 10gb ram. the strangest thing is that all these clips are months old and have played fine in various timelines of various projects, and now they won’t.

i suspect it’s one setting that i’m not catching, especially since this more or less happened after i took a job where i was dealing with hdv footage and totally different settings, having to reset the scratch disk to the drive i was using.

but everything lines up as it should.

any help would be appreciated i’m losing time!

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

thanks, will do!

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

would i be able to trash preferences without having to reinstall fc? am i just going to have rerender whatever i have in my sequences after that?

the field dominances for the clips are either set to none, or lower (even). what does this information affect?

thanks for the tips though,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

hey kevin, i’m only having a problem in final cut now. the clips rendered, and in the composition window will play fine, but once i put them into the timeline they play sluggish.

even in sequences that they played fine in but a week ago. the sequence settings haven’t changed and i even compared the sequences (now fc6) to sequences on my old g5 that’s running fc5 and they were the same.

but i still get this sluggish playback. seems like this is a fc issue perhaps i dunno, but it’s yet another thing from holding this work back.

any suggestions?

i hope all is well,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

Thank you so much Kevin! this seems to be it!

you have provided the light at the end of the tunnel today. above and beyond with your time i must say, a real testament to the potential of the internet and this forum.

i’m being profuse cause i never would have figured this out on my own,

if i may ask one more question: hehe

in all this prerendering of this one clip back and forth across various compostions, i have yet to get a good compression of the flame. it will appear slow or stilted at times when rendered with animation, millions+ colors. it will appear this way in the compostion window as well.

while the echo effect is creating a constant stutter, there is still a fluid movement in the details of the flames that becomes noticeable when sluggish (in a bad way). does this make sense?

but thanks so much for all your help,

many blessings to you,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

it’s not happening for me for some reason?!
how is it that one would export a screen shot of the timeline? i was hoping to do this to attach so that you could see and maybe point out any inconsistency with your instructions, though i followed them to the letter, dunno if this is something with my software at this point. blegh…

pretty desperate at this point, i should also specify that my time descriptions were off. from my comp, the flame’s arc lasts 17 frames and i have them coming in every 5 frames. so while it’s a consistent movement, it’s fast. the flames overlap creating a stuttery effect .

thanks so much for your time thus far, very cool of you,

but i’m still stuck in a confused state with the gremlins in my computer,

dip

[Danny Perez-triana]

i think that motion script seems to allow for something a little more random and flickering than i need.

to clarify, what i have is a flame that comes into the shot from the bottom, has the path of an arc across about 7 frames, then falls to the other side on the bottom. the video is someone spinning a flame tool and the camera catches half of its circular movement. so it appears against all black coming in and leaving the frame.

the motion i’m looking for is constant. the flame comes in there would be a frame of black after it left the shot before the same flame reappears does the same path.

in my massive precomps i have the same quicktime movie of this flame (lasts about 7 frames) staggered up to about 30 layers. each layer after the next comes in every 5 frames. so we see the flame pass by through the shot with every layer every 5 frames.

the variable i would like to be able to control would be to have say, about ten seconds where the flames followed each other every ten frames. so the gap of black of frames would be longer than when i bring in the layers every 5 frames.

in both cases the same applies though, we see the flame pass through.

sorry for the long response, i’m just trying to be clear since you and this forum have been very generous with your advice. unfortunately this scenario is one that is hindering a large project with an upcoming deadline.

what do you think?

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

sounds good, i got unexpectedly pulled away from the computer this afternoon for a random job, otherwise i would have responded earlier.

is there a way to set the interval for the loop? as in have the clip start every five frames or even less to create a kind’ve stutter motion?

thanks again and have a good weekend,

ignacio

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[Danny Perez-triana]

sorry for the late reply, i stepped away from the problem for a bit, i’m going to give this a try.

a whole new world awaits!?

ignacio

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