[David Bogie]

What happens in your use the internal FW bus? If it’s gone, too, you must replace the PC card to get back to work. After your project is done, you will send the MAcintosh in for serious work, could take two weeks to replace the FW system.

This is always a user-caused problem. Someone in your shop plugged in a FW connector upside down. You may also have destroyed the FW chip on the camera, deck, or drive that was being attached. The FW plugs are easily inserted incorrectly. It’s a lousy hardware design.

Blame Apple if it will make you feel better but I’d start gently reminding your staff that FW carries current.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

It’s a waste of time. Powerpoints are created by idiots.
Bring in the background and start recreating the text and bullet items in video-friendy fonts using intelligent and elegant transitions. You[‘re going to have to repair them all anyway.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Sounds like you may have set the camera to a different mode when shooting this particular tape. No way to know from here.

The speedy solution is to dub this tape from your camera to another deck that you have carefully set to record miniDV or DVCAM and then capture the new copy.

Also try capturing into iMovie. Sometimes that works. You will export out of iMovie to the DV codec, iMovie’s DV Stream codec cannot be used directly in FCP.

Try posting to a JVC forum, too.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

You might post in the appropriate forum, maybe DVDSP?

There’s nothing you need to do while creating the DVD project but it’s possible to disable those functions deliberately. Impossible to tell from where I’m sitting what the issue might be, too many variables.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Could be a power supply problem, RAM, your system disk failing, graphic card issues or any of about two hundred other things. You can open Activity Monitor (or is it Terminal?) and watch a progress log to see if there are any clues you can decipher. I’m 90% positive you’re looking at seriously odd hardware issues.

Immediate advice: Backup your system and keep the backup current on a daily or half-daily basis, depending on this machine’s position in your workflow.

And prepare to take this Macintosh in for extensive testing, diagnosis and service. You could be without the machine for about two weeks.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

I’m guessing this is font translation/substituion error between you, Microsoft, OS10 and your font of choice.

Can you find the mystery glyph in the Character Palette? If you can identify the glyph, you can find its unicode; if you can find the unicode, you can compare that against the unicodes for the apostrophe and quote marks you’re trying to use in Word.

I will say this: open and close and inner and outer quotes, apostrophes, accents, prime marks and tick marks are all different typgrophical glyphs but most people don’t know the differences. You may have Word set to use proper quote marks (substitute smart quotes prefs) but you may not have them in the font you are using. Or your conversion from using smart quotes to plain text may confuse Word, which is an insane program anyway.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

I’d use Ball Action.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> No, we have an XSan as the scratch disk, so it always available. To be clear, we may have had the project open for a few minutes or a few hours, editing away, when suddenly the media unlinks from the timeline. The media is still in the same place on our XSan and no one has moved it.< I cna think of only one way media unlinks and that's because the media becomes unavailable. AFAIK, there is no other reason for FCP to lose track of its media files. That leaves us with only one possible explanation: When you hide FCP, your system tells your fiber card that it can drop offline or the xSan polls your system and is told to drop the connection. It's not an FCP issue, that's for sure. It's your system prefs, the fiber channel card setup or the xSAN setup. I think. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

You don’t seem to have a full grasp of the workflow integration between the Apple applications. It’s easier than you might think.
Lossless rendering is only a factor in some higher end codecs. If your FCP prject is DV, it really isn’t going to mater at all. If your FCP project is 1080i — well, to be blunt, you wouldn’t be asking the question if your project was high def.

If you need more information, please tell us a little about the nature of your project and the final release medium. It’s all relevant to helping you find your most economical workflow.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Are you trying to replicate something like Master Slides in Keynote or (ick) PowerPoint? Can’t be done.
Yes and no.
There is a plugin for Motion called AutoMotion that batches objects upstream of the application. Might be what you want. We see posts about it every week so search here, one of the Motion help sites, or just google it. Never mind:

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/indexflash.htm

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”