David Roth weiss
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This is not the proper forum for your question as it has nothing whatsoever to do with FCP. You should pose the same question on the Cow’s Business & Marketing Forum.
BTW, explain why you edited something without a deal in place and evidently without compensation, as people will ask you in order to understand how you got yourself in this position.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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You’ve not once mentioned your media drive(s), which are as important, if not more important than procs, RAM, and GPU.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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If I was 100% certain how everything works under the hood of FCP it would be me retiring from Apple with loads of Apple shares in my portfolio, not Randy Ubilos.
And, you could also be assured that the new version of FCP would not include trackless audio. 🙂
All I can tell you is, this has something to do with the render engine in FCP Legacy (lately referred to as FCP Legend). This is why I also suggested that could probably delete all renders, then re-render, to potentially get a desired outcome.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Export both ways and compare them…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Dennis,
Back to what I said before… If you don’t have any disabled clips on the timeline that you can delete, then your failsafe is to export the self contained file as I mentioned earlier, then use that to print to tape. It’s not a time consuming export, so I’m not sure why you earlier made it sound like a deal breaker.
One additional thing to try first would be to delete all renders using Render Manager, then re-render… Of course, this can take a lot longer than exporting a self contained file.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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The “trick” I’ve shared with you is just one of about a million such FCP factoids that forum leaders here, myself included, added to knowledgebase here over the years. If you search you’ll find this discussed many times over the years.
FYI, it’s most often related to clips that have been disabled, that are left on the timeline. In that case, deleting the disabled clips, then re-rendering, will fix the issue with print to tape. However, exporting a self contained QT is faster, and works in cases where the problem may not be disabled clips.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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I’ll bet you a fiver that I can solve this for you.
Export the timeline to a self contained QT > place the new QT into a new sequence > now print to tape doing everything you normally do.
Next, send me $5… Or, invoice me for $5 if the above fails to solve the problem.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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Your best bet would be a compositing app that wirks in 3D space, with a paint module, like After Effects, Nuke, Fusion, etc., but a good Photoshop artist could do a very reasonable 3D fake in 2D space. Muzzle flashes are often done using similar techniques.
It’s always best to hire a motion graphics pro to do this type of stuff, unless you want to spend hours and hours and hours to create a brief believable effect yourself using tools and techniques with which you’re unfamiliar.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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You need one of the plugins from Calibrated Software.
Email Greg at greg@calibratedsoftware.com and tell him I referred you.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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You still need to install the Cuda driver in addition to the Nvidia driver to get GPU acceleration. However, be aware that many using it with Yosemite are having issues. I’m still working under Mavericks, and all is fine.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss ProductionsDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.