David Bogie
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You could have also posted it to apple.com and to DV and ten other FCP sites.
KNow anyone in your neighborhood with After Effects? The speed change algorithm in AE is great, produces lovely effects even from DV.
The optical characteristics of Apple’s rendering engine are said to have been “gweatly impwoved” in FCP5. We’ll have to wait to see.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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If that’s the ONLY thing you changed recently, perhaps. But there’s nothing in 10.3.9 by itself that should be causing this. QT didn’t change, there was no update to your FCP apps, no change to the Firewire protocols. Umm, maybe the last one, dunno, just haven’t seen anything to suggest there was anything in the update that would affect how DV files are copied via FW. Safari and Java seem to be the major culprits
You might want to cruise the geekier Macintosh OS sites for a few hours:
https://www.macintouch.com/panreader60.html#apr25
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thanks for the inspiration. I saw many of your shows at the AMI festivals.
Not sure what I can tell you if yoiu’re going to DVD for playback. That’s MPEG1 or 2. Period. If you’re just going to DVD-ROM, then it’s all up to your playback system’s ability to support the codec you render to. You can’t play lossless without some big iron (or a traveling video deck) so you must use some kind of compression. H2.264 is supposed to revolutionize the combination of superb image quality with totally scalable playback from a single QT file. It’s still voodoo till Tiger ships with QT7.If you have the energy, you might explore the Digital Signage industry. These guys are creating high rez playback for scalable systems but it’s meaningless to me, a subtly different tech.
Nice to chat with you, Todd.
bogie
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Mel, this is probably the ONLY practical use of Media Manager I’ve ever seen around here.
Great advice, good suggestion and excellent detective work on possible file location/naming issues. Hope it helps in this situation.bogiesan
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What’s an Avid?
Welcome to the family. Unfortunately, Media Manager is one of several major flaws in FCP. I can’t tell you what’s wrong with your particular instance but it is terrible programming and only works for a few people. Suggest you open a fresh project, capture a few clips and try to use MM on a limited basis until you can figure out how it is supposed to work but doesn’t.
See Ken Stone’s site:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/FCP_4_trim_dang_it.html
But it will only discourage you from trying to use this incredibly and dangerously lame non-feature. We hope it got fixed in FCP5 but there are no good reports I have seen.
bogiesan
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You can search the forum for those terms, you will find some interesting reading.
Are you storing your media files on your system disk?
If you’re not, then stop everything. Make backup copies of as much of everything as you can.Can you actually see the files in question on your media drive and in the scratch folder? Can you open them in QT?
If not, stop everything and back up all you can.Run your drive utility apps on the media drives but DO NOT USE NORTON.
Assume the worst case scenario: Your drive is failing or the directory has been trashed. Locate your original tapes because you may have to recapture everything.
bogiesan
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View the rendered image on a tv or video monitor and then post back.
bogiesan
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LaCie is the single most recommended, praised, hated and complained about drive mfr.
Take your pick.
Cheap does not imply causality.
I think there’s a LaCie forum here.bogiesan
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I’ll throw in my advice but it’s just my opinion. There are a million ways to approach a doco but capturing every frame isn’t one of them.
Make backup dubs of your tapes.
While you’re doing that, bake in some window burns to VHS.
Lock yourselves in a motel room till you cull your footage down to a reasonable 30-50 hours. You can always go back to the originals and find weird shots later. You do not want to start a doco with 130 hours of raw footage. That smacks of serious lack of vision or commitment. Somebody make some decisions.Media Manager is the surest possible way to destroy your group’s hard work. Media Manager is lousy programming. It is totally bogus. If it worked, it wouldn’t be this huge black hole of unsuredness; you wouldn’t asking these questions. Up rezzing or offlining should be elegant and flawless processes. They are not. And yet there are those among us who use it every day. Go figure. It ain’t worth the risk unless you have3 time to hone the procedures on practice material.
Hopefully it got fixed in FCP5 but we have heard of no miracles.
bogiesan
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It’s a confusing thing, FCP. Especially if you come to FCP from another NLE that had specific or proprietary hardware support.
Your project settings must match the media settings or everything will be scaled or otherwise processed to fit when your drop it into your timeline. I do not know if your machine can do a full frame 35mm format project without extensive processing; my lowly G4s are several generations below your hardware so I cannot test it accurately.
Others will chime in, I’m sure.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”