[David Eells]

Dave

Thanks for the response. 59.97px/sec was as close to 60 pix/sec (2 pix/frame) as I could easily get.

The issue, as I found and mentioned above, was monitoring. But beyond that, I found I preferred Boris in FCP to After Effects for making credit rolls.

[David Eells]

So for the benefit of future searchers, the key is never evaluate picture quality by playing a quicktime movie on your computer monitor. That’s why we professionals always have video cards playing out to line monitors. I used to know that.

Once I did that, it was remarkable how much better my credit roll looked. Although I will say that I discovered that the Boris text generator in Final Cut makes a nicer-looking credit roll than After Effects. Yes, it’s a little softer, but overall a more pleasing look, IMHO.

[David Eells]

Stephan

Excellent suggestion. Thank you.

[David Eells]

The AP’s not very technical, so I think I may to do that.

Thanks, David!

[David Eells]

In this case the video was ripped by the AP, and delivered to me as PAL-sized DV. I believe she did not change the frame rate, so it comes to me as 23.98.

Sorry for the confusion.

[David Eells]

I’ve actually been through a few cycles of that. There’s nothing I can’t render on the second try, nothing I can find that trips up consistently. I can sit here and render in two minute pieces (and I have!), but in the long run it’s not my preferred method.

[David Eells]

Hey Jeremy

How’s your summer going?

The advice to use a separate disk for renders came from Don Peebles. We were trying to isolate the cause of render crashes.

The formats are XDCAM 35mbr 1080i, HDV1080i, HDV 720p and DV Pal, all at pal frame rates, in a Pro Res 422Q timeline (just to reiterate, I inherited this project).

This is a new thread, no other forums involved.

I have had issues with FCP getting confused with render files – if you version your sequences, the sequence names can be similar enough so that the truncated sequence name used to name render files can cause non-unique filenames. My approach was to keep the name of my current sequence constant, and just label the old versions according to date.

So I could trash them all, but the problem is that the sequence is an hour long, and I can’t count on the edit machine to make it through the show without crashing.

[David Eells]

Thanks for the response.

Here’s the thing about the crashes: it’s not like there’s anything in particular I can’t render. When the renders fail, it’s somewhat unpredictable. Just because it chokes on a given clip doesn’t mean it will next time.

What I want to do is let the sucker render at the end of day. So far I haven’t been able to do it. I’m rendering to an internal, render-only disk, by the way.

[David Eells]

There is some uncompressed CGI material, but not much. So it sounds like I might want 10-bit when I’m finishing, but it’s not necessary before that.

I just found it odd that if I rendered at 10-bit and exported a reference mov, the file was relatively small, but if I rendered at 8-bit it was much bigger, which made me think that rendering to 8-bit was a waste of time.

[David Eells]

So Joe

Do you need a beta tester? 😉