[David Bogie]

Visit you r local public library.
People have been writing books about movie editing for about 100 years and most of the information is not only still current, it’s literally foundational. The only things that have changed besides the sophistication of the audience (debatable) are acquisition formats and editing hardware.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

You see? Kluges and hacks.
Don’t switch.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

thanks for the reminder, Scott. “Simple Video Out” is an interesting route to take but, please correct me if I’m wrong because it’s been so long since I bothered to look that up, there was nothing particularly “simple” about that kluge.

PetteriE: Would you please tell us how you solved this?

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

Whew. Close call.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

These are huge, unresolved issues with FCP.
Stay happy.
Don’t switch.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

There is no valid reason to rebuild your entire system just because the RIAD went down. None.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

Your other systems must have been running preFCP4 versions. Apple fixed the ability to send timecode to lowly machines like the DSR11 in v4 (or was it 4.5?). We screamed and whined for months after it happened. It is a deliberate Apple-inflicted Firewire and FCP issue, nothing you can do about it.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

Run to your nearest bookseller and buy everything you can find by Trish and Chris Meyer.

It’s not complicated but it involves some higher functions like motion tracking, motion sketch or importing a path from Illustrator. Then you (simply) use the path as the keyframes for the particle emitter.

The particles don’t leave the letters. You need to use a mask or a traveling gradient wipe or some other effect to reveal the underlying layer.

I’m not sure what terms to suggest you start searching for but we’ve been handling similar questions here and on the Adobe AE forum for many years, there’s a wealth of archived threads. Try AE Portal, too.
https://msp.sfsu.edu/Instructors/rey/aepage/aeportal.html

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

We have unconfirmed testimony that the signal passes through unscathed UNTIL you apply any filter or effect. If the media is rendered, the line 21 information is lost.
Again, that’s unconfirmed, but from reliable sources. I am working from Dr Memory which might not be fully functional.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

Could be many things, the clock battery is easy and cheap as others have noted.
If you get it started up, I’d have a backup plan ready to launch instantly, even if it means just pulling the drives and putting them in another machine.

bogiesan

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