Dave Bergan
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How I use Levelator is to run it through my main dialogue or VO track and then mix everything else according to that. Since I output for the web, Levelator’s default output to -1db works for me. After I’m done in Final Cut, where I do my mixing, I will export a 2 channel AIFF to STP to check the peaks, maybe manually adjust them if something pops a little to much, then do a peak normalizing to -1db again. In your case it would be -10db.
So mainly I find it helpful to use Levelator for the main track, the track I’m going to mix everything against, but not the whole mix.
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I have issues too, I have posted about it, I have read other posts about it, and there seems to be no answer. People mainly just say your drives aren’t fast enough. I shoot and edit XDCAM EX 1080p30 and if I just lay video in the timeline everything is fine. Once I start adding graphics all hell breaks loose. Stuttering, dropped frames, it just won’t play with any consistency. And this is a fully rendered, codec/sequence setting matching timeline. I have never had this problem before, even back in the day working on a Video Toaster 4000 with a DPS PAR card. If I convert the footage to ProRes it all plays fine, and any other codec works fine too.
I think there are issues with the XDCAM EX codec, but maybe just in Snow Leopard. I don’t remember this happening with 6.0.6 and Leopard, but haven’t rolled back to test the theory.
Are you on Snow Leopard with FC 7.0.1?
Dave
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If you option select the clip it will select the specific clip you click on. I’ve found safer and faster than turning off linking.
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When I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and FCS 3 the same thing happened to me but it was user error. I’m not sure, but I think Apple may have switched the order of the Services list, so when I clicked on “Options for selected service” it was actually changing the instances on “Rendering” for Shake and not for Compressor, so nothing happened. When I highlighted Compressor, changed the instances appropriate for my machine, Compressor started flying on all cores. I also have Managed checked. So just double check you have Compressor highlighted when selecting the number of instances.
Dave
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If you have wireframes viewable you can right click on the keyframe in the canvas and choose Ease In/Ease Out, which also gives you a bezier handle.
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Hey Elizabeth,
I certainly weigh in on doing a clean install, but I also feel the only way to do a real clean install is to redo the whole computer. I used FCS Remover and reinstalled and still had problems. After that I reinstalled the whole system and still had the same problems. I noticed that FCS Remover didn’t uninstall everything, things like plugins were still there, so I don’t know if there’s something like a third party driver causing my problem.
I’m just hoping a new update will clear it up, I check often for one.
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I have the same issues. Things that were not dropping in FC 6 are now. I can not even play EX1 footage with dropping frames, let alone a rendered timeline, and I know the footage and timeline settings match. Though Pro Res seems to play fine, so since I render my effects to Pro Res they play at those points, but real time effects and graphics that have a gray bar drop frames. I replaced my hba, reinitialized my raid, reinstalled OSX, reinstalled FCS, and nothing has worked. I have never had dropped frame issues before, ever.
It looks like a few people have some issues, but I’m still trying to figure out if it’s me. I would think if it’s Final Cut there would be a lot more people complaining.
Dave