[David Bogie]

Here’s what I know: It should work flawlessly. I had absolutely no issues opening any of my 4.0 or 4.5 projects into 5.0.

Try supplying some additional information about the media.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

You really lucked out and you’re in rare company.
You have posted one of only a few Media Manager success stories ever.
And, thanks for closing the thread, most posters do no do that.

bogiesan

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

[David Bogie]

The titling systems in FCP re adequate and suitable for all purposes. You must understand the media in use, limitations of your codec, sequence settings, and where to view output. They are all factors. You have not told us any of that information.

Be sure you are viewing the final, full rez, totally rendered output on a video screen, not a computer.

This topic comes up weekly, sometimes daily, so try scrolling down a few weeks or more, you will find plenty of posts. see kenstone.net and search for an article on how to get the most out of DV text tools.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Since you have already used Media Manager, use it again. Make a complete COPY of your project and play with the copy. Try not to mess with the original any more.

Why did you make them master clips? Doesn’t really matter, sorry, just curious.

Had you stopped by here first, we’d have suggested you experiment v-e-r-y carefully on a non-critical project before committing anything to the thrice-damned abomination, this Media Mangler.

Timecode issues can sometimes be traced back upstream but since you have destroyed the original media, that’s going to be very difficult. Are the clips the correct length? If so, that might give you a clue but it’s impossible for me to speculate from here. this could be a real disaster. Strongly suggest you prepare for the worst possible scenario which is to rebuild the entire show from source footage.

worthless aside: Complaining about Media Manager might make you feel better but it won’t help. We’ve been screaming about it since it was first released. Media Manager is widely known to be a near complete failure, a death trap. Media Manager is some weirdly awful programming, right up there with Aperture. It is clear the MM designers had, umm, issues. They were obviously working on a different application.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

> I tried Combustion 3, Shake 4 (Primatte, Keylight), FCP5 plugins like DVMATTE Pro 1.5, ZMatte, FCP Chroma, and a few others. Nothing seemed to work decent at all. In Combustion 3 I tried Chroma Blurring Horizontal and exporting back to FCP and you name it… I’ve tried so many things. I recently bought the Magic Bullet upgrade to try the de-artifactor. I tried keying after rendering it in the timeline in FCP5 and I tried exporting a quicktime file and bringing it back in. < If you've tried all of those tools and are not happy with the results, your photography is the issue. Most of those tools will create superb keys from good green DV. The Canon doesn't have the crispy edges of a $20k Ikegami but you shot it with what you had. You have three choices: 1. Reshoot. 2. Develop a style for the prezo that helps hide your poor footage, or 3. As suggested earlier, use the green as the background. four, you have four choices: 4. Find the right combination of layers and tools that give you what you can say is the best you can do. When AE came with lame chromakeyers, it often took four to six copies of the same layer to get a clean key. Each had a different matte or filter applied to it. Takes time. You may need to lower your expectations. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[David Bogie]

If you drop After Effects, be sure you know someone locally who can handle your AE work for you. As soon as you erase After Effects, you’re going to wish you had not done so. But there’s no compelling reason to upgrade to AE7 yet. Do you need those 32bpc renders for the IMAX in your conference room? Me neither. AE6 or 6.5 should give you all the muscle you need for at least two more years. By then, we’ll all be obsolete.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Your desperation is preventing your from posting sufficient information. Take a deep breath and try to think about what we need to know before we can help. Here are few questions you might think about answering for us:
What’s your target output?
Why did you shoot it at 15fps progressive?
What MPEG2 settings did you use in Compressor?
Why are you using Compressor?
Why have you chosen this route without knowing what you were doing?
What is your backup plan in case there is no viable solution?

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

You might try posting at the OS10 forum instead of here.

But, no, nothing comes to mind immediately. It’s not apparently a problem with the drive. Tiger’s System Prefs and some other adjustments settings may have changed from Panther. I’ve been using Tiger since it first shipped and I’ve forgotten all of the subtle differences. The DVD Player application is newer, too, so check those playback prefs.

Hope you get it fixed.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

Hadn’t chased that one down.
Thanks for the correct link!

Now you know more than i do.

bogiesan

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[David Bogie]

All you have to do is keep reading and waiting. No one knows. Anyone who knows isn’t going to tell us anything because of their NDA with Apple.

Our current revs of the FCP line may or may not run on the Rosetta System within the new Macintosh OS for Intel. We have no way of knowing till Apple tells us. I’m guessing the apps will barely limp because the emulation overhead is just too intense. But I know as little as you do.

There is plenty of confusion that stems from the Universal Binary announcements. These will be merely copies of our present software products designed to to run natively on the new Macintosh systems. They will not necessarily be upgrades or new revs.

Apple has done a lousy job of explaining this but, if you spend lots of time on the Net exploring the switch to Intel, you will begin to piece it together. Some of the Mac magazines have decent synopses but do little to satisfy questions like ours about professional appllications.

bogiesan

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