David Heidelberger
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Also, be sure to keep the final semi-colon before the frame number, otherwise Final Cut will probably think you’re doing NDF TC.
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Hi Jason,
I do actually have a somewhat limited javascript template up on my website to do just this. There are several caveats to how it works, though, so be sure to read the note before downloading it:
https://www.davidheidelberger.com/software.html
Best,
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Be sure you’ve rendered any clips that Final Cut considers to be “Preview” quality. Possibly even clips that Final Cut considers “Full” as well.
– David
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You can probably get away with just forcing FCP to re-render the transitions that were giving you problems. Sometimes it’s a little tricky to selectively make it render things. The easiest way is to drop a slug in the track above the problem transitions, then delete it. This will make Final Cut wipe away any render files that may be corrupt. Then re-render as needed. I’m running 5.1.2 and I tend to run into problems like this if I’ve moved a project between an Intel and G5. I understand they’ve fixed that in 5.1.4 but I haven’t been able to upgrade yet.
Not sure what to tell you on your other problem.
– David
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Not sure where it comes from, exactly. But if you right click on a plist file and go to “Open With,” it’s the default application that comes up.
– David
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They’re buried in a preference file. You’ll probably have to copy the whole file intact, overwriting any Streamclip preferences on your other computer.
It’s in Home/Library/Preferences/ and the file is called “it.alfanet.squared5.MPEGStreamclip.plist” on my computer. If you open it with the Property List Editor program, you’ll see that there are a list of presets in there.
– David
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See the June 9th thread below entitled “Strange Render problem with dissolves.” Are you working with P2 media? If so, that may solve your problem.
– David
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I’ve used an American Lacie drive in Ireland using just a power adapter without a hitch. The drive has a transformer as part of the power cable. If I remember right, I called Lacie to verify that this would work before I left. Don’t know if the G-Raids work the same way, though.
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Is the DVCPRO-HD footage from a P2 card? And if so, what version of Final Cut was being used when it was digitized (imported, ingested, copied, whatever you want to call it)? There is a bug in how Final Cut versions prior to, I believe, 5.1.2, handle this footage. The bug has something to do with framerates and can cause footage that needs to be rendered, for whatever reason, to be offset by a few frames. The length of the offset seems to depend on the clip length. This will make little skips at the beginning or end of dissolves between a rendered clip and a clip that doesn’t need rendering.
In order to get properly working media, the footage would need to be re-imported from the original P2 cards in FCP 5.1.2 or later.
As a workaround, if that’s infeasible, you can try adding an effect to the unrendered clip that won’t change the clip but make it renderable (Quicktime Blur set at 0, for example). This will force Final Cut to render the clip and hopefully get rid of your jump.
Hope that helps. I had this issue on a project a while ago and it took a lot of tinkering to finally figure this one out.
– David
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You could try using a codec other than H.264. A heavily compressed Sorenson 3 could encode faster than H.264. Not sure if that still holds true if you do the H.264 as one-pass. But it might be worth doing a speed comparison for a few different common codecs before committing to rendering that much footage.
– David