Debe
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L isha–
Just to ultra clarify for you, drop vs. non-drop is only an issue of frame counting. It’s not like mixing codecs or anything like that.
You can edit non-drop footage in a drop sequence with no real ramifications, and vice versa. It’s just a counting scheme, nothing more.
That’s one of the things I wish Avid would address. There’s no real reason you shouldn’t be able to put a non-drop frame timeline on a drop frame tape. It might not be wise to put a drop timeline on a non-drop tape if you’re making a broadcast master, and perhaps that’s why Avid won’t let you do either. To idiot-proof it.
debe
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I take that back, they don’t NEED to be on your boot drive, they just shouldn’t be on a media drive. If you have a third drive for documents or whatever, the project file could go there, but since most of us have a boot drive and the rest are media drives, the default is that the project file ends up on the boot drive.
debe
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Project files should be on your boot drive, not a media drive, so that’s good.
You shouldn’t be using QT7 with FCP 4.5. That may be the problem.
Can you revert back to QT 6.5.2 Pro?
debe
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If it’s formatted HFS+, the PC will not see it.
If you don’t know, and you’ve been using it successfully as a media drive with FCP, then it probably is formatted HFS+
debe
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The biggest issue you’re going to have is that FW drive will need to be formatted so the PC can see it, and FCP doesn’t like that. It needs it’s media drives formatted HFS+, which a PC will not read.
debe
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Dagnabit, you’ve got all the easy answers covered!
When you say the preferences have been reset, you mean the file has been thrown in the trash and regenerated by FCP? Did you use FCP Rescue, or the manual method?
I’m diggin’ deep into my poor little brain and not comin’ up with any suggestions other than run Coctail or MacJanitor or Yasu to clean caches, but that’s really reaching….
Or how about just cleaning out old render files from FCP?
debe
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Is that 200 GB on a separate drive from the boot drive?
debe
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There’s lots of reasons things go wonky, as you probably already know.
What’s your storage?
What model & speed Mac are you using?
What resolution are your working in?
Do you have any anti-virus programs running?
Can you give us a detailed description of you setup? RAM, video card…You’ve already mentioned FCP 4.5, OS 10.3.9, and (guessing) QT 6.5.2.
Just a start!
debe
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According to Neil Worthingham at CaptionMax, the CC on a DVD is actually a specially prepared file that is put on the DVD. They would supply you with the file, and you would put it in your DVDSP project and assign it the function of being a CC file.
I’ve not yet tested this, but all the folks at CaptionMax are very helpful and knowledgeable, and at least one makes a mean guacamole!
debe
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[tony salgado] “The DSR-1500A plays back dvcpro but with no firewire output only analog component when playing back dvcpro. “
Not true!! I have a DSP-1500A and capture DVCPro via FireWire. Did it for three months on a project this past summer.
Perhaps what you were thinking of is the 1500A doesn’t record in DVCPro, it only plays it back. But it DOES spit DVCPro playback out the FW port!
But, regardless, it’s probably outside the poster’s budget.
debe