[Dave Gardner]

Thanks, everyone, for your advice and info. Happy New Year!

[Dave Gardner]

Thanks, Dave! Felt foolish having to ask. I got exactly the same answer from another person in another forum, so that validates your response in my view. Happy New Year!

[Dave Gardner]

The “error locating TC” problem is different, I believe. I do run into it sometimes. I believe I vanquished it by selecting a different device control preset (Basic HDV instead of Sony, as I recall).

I have found a work-around for my short pre-roll problem, though there will be times it may not work. I discovered that whatever pre-roll I was selecting in the device control settings, FCP was subtracting about 5 seconds from that. So I set an 11 second pre-roll and now FCP is doing about a 6 second pre-roll, the deck locks up and all works fine.

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Compelling Documentaries for Broadcast, Business & Communities


Main Office:
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Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

Dylan describes exactly the functionality I need and expected from nested sequences. I’m editing a documentary, so I’m constantly updating segments that we treat as a sequence to be nested in the final program. However I really need to save a copy of a segment before making significant revisions. The intuitive way to do this is to duplicate that segment’s sequence, rename it as draft 3 or whatever, and then modify it. But I cannot do that unless I’m willing to rebuild the master program sequence by dragging the new updated segments into that timeline. Bummer.

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Compelling Documentaries for Broadcast, Business & Communities


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

Thanks so much for the advice. I was under the impression I could just place HDV clips into a Pro Res timeline and render out to Pro Res. Why do I need to convert my clips to Pro Res before editing?

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Compelling Documentaries for Broadcast, Business & Communities


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

Tried every possible Livetype setting with no success. trashed prefs in fcp with no success. same behavior

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

I appreciate the suggestion, however…I’ve tried changing the livetype project settings with no change in results. And, I’ve even opened old projects that had no problems before and now they have this problem – with their original graphics that always played fine in real time. Total mystery!

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

Okay, here are more symptoms that are very interesting. I can play back these livetype titles nicely by hitting option p. Once I render the sequence, the titles are extremely fuzzy.

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

Hope this is revealing. The rendered mov clip still must be rendered before it will play back in the timeline!

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,

[Dave Gardner]

More info: I am importing the livetype project files, not rendering them out in Livetype. And I just changed the Livetype preview to normal instead of draft quality, but that did not make a difference.

Dave Gardner
Producer/Director/Writer
Visions West
Breakthrough Communication for World-Class Companies
Colorado Springs * Dallas * Atlanta


Main Office:
760 Wycliffe Drive
Colorado Springs,