[Dianne Searle]

Hi Dianne,
Re FCP not being very good at it– you are not kidding! So far nothing has worked, even in Uncompressed 10 bit. I’m not at my editing place now, but it seems to me that when my sequence setting is on that, the hi prec render is greyed out.
Re the Nattress “Long Dissolve” transition, have you tried it? I’ve read forum entires saying great and useless. Just emailed Nattress to see if I can buy just that, not the whole package, and whether it should work on this.
Thanks for the idea of fading the black, instead of the image– that would be elegant in it’s simplicity!
How do I apply the Gaussian Blur to “any of the three color channels”. That’s new territory for me, and don;t get the concept.
Thanks so much,Rafael, for giving this so much thought. Something has to work!

[Dianne Searle]

Excellent advice– I will check that. Thanks so much
D.

[Dianne Searle]

Thanks Jaap, for your thorough reply. You hit alot of nails on the head. I’m making progress and here’s what’s worked. Re where it starts, I originally was using Jpegs, which were a big problem, and switched to Tiffs awhile back and importing them properly. All but the fades to black are now good.

It was slightly visible in FCP, then more in the Quick time movies and then worst of all in the DVD on a monitor. I have switched from reg 8 bit then to Hi Prec res, then tried Animation and now am Using Uncompressed 10 bit, which is the best ( but not alot different than hi prec res). With the Uncompressed 10bit the Quicktime Movie was terrible (a G5 couldn’t even play it–was lagging and skipping images), but after using Compressor and DV Studio Pro, it worked like a charm, looked much better ( the reverse of what was happening before–when I was using iDVD the QTM was much better than the DVD results on a monitor). Someone helped me with the Studio Pro and said the settings were
all good, but I can’t find how to see if all the things you said are set– where do you set them? ( He’ll be back Monday, and will probably know, too)

I am now using a broadcast monitor, which is a big help in knowing what’s happening as I go. I tried putting in compression markers in but couldn’t see a difference. I am now adding noise, and seeing if that can bring the last long fades (20-30 sec) ones to the point they are useable. I’ll try agin with the compression markers and noise tpgether and see where that gets me.
Thanks sooooo much for your generous help.