Don Greening
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You could run it through A.Pack and compress it to the 192 bit rate setting. That’ll drop the file size to around 1 meg instead of 10. You’ll end up with the DVD audio standard of an .ac3 file format. A.Pack shipped as a stand alone app with Compressor 1 and it’s now part of Compressor 2.
– Don
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Hi Jo,
No problem. Hope you had a good trip. I’ll check back from time to time to see if you’ve posted back with anything.
Good Luck
– Don
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Jack,
Thanks for posting back. I’ve been wondering how you made out. With regards to having to do an operating system and FCP3 re-istall: I guess we’ve come up with the new slogan “when in doubt throw it out.” 🙂
Anyway, glad things finally worked out for you. Here’s hoping you had a good Thanksgiving and I’ll jump the gun a little and wish you a great Christmass holliday as well.
Best of luck,
– Don
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I don’t think the XL1S has an A to D pass-through converter in it. The GL2 has one but not the XL1S. I think you’re stuck recording to tape first.
– Don
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You’re welcome. Glad I could help.
– Don
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[ShariLynn] “May you all have a very Happy Holiday Season!!”
Well, I guess I could change my plans. Kidding!! Thanks for your wishes and the same back to you. Take care.
– Don
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You could always remove the word ‘cheap’ and insert the word ‘inexpensive.’ An admirable substitution. 🙂
– Don
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Try trashing prefs first and then post back. I’ll wait before I ask for more info.
– Don
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If you could disclose your system details it would be much easier to try and diagnose your problem with FCP. Otherwise it’s like a shot in the dark since there are so many ways to configure and use FCP. Type of Mac, amount of RAM, version of your operating system, version of FCP, size and type of internal hard drive(s), external hard drives used and how they’re connected to the computer, how full are your hard drives, etc. Anything you can think of that would help to define your system.
When was the last time you performed system mantainence such as repairing permissions, rebuilding hard disk directories, etc.
FCP captures media in a completely different way than iMovie, so there are a number of things that have to be working properly in order for the capture process to be uninterrupted and seamless. FCP works with time code and iMovie doesn’t, for example.
One thing you can try with Final Cut Pro is to trash its preference files, which sometimes cures things if the program is acting strangely. Here’s a link that shows you how to do this properly and why it needs to be done from time to time:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
– Don
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It sounds like you’re on the right track (pun fully intentional) as far as the preference thingy. There are also other reasons why your playback jerkiness continued if trashing prefs didn’t/won’t work in the future for this particular project. You’ve been doing a lot of colour correction and one or more render files may have become corrupt. Could be a sequence itself has corruption, or even a project file. Sometimes a render file corruption won’t show up until it’s time to encode for DVD and you find out when the encoding process crashes at the exact same spot everytime. Anyway, here’s a link to trashing FCP preferences the right way, and the reasons why it’s needed sometimes.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
Of course if you’ve got FCP Rescue now it’ll do the same thing with one mouse click.
Yes I know about the Steadycam Jr. I don’t have one, but I know how they work. The only reservation I have about using one is the amount of weight you’ll have to bear on your forearm for the length of time you’re shooting. Your shooting needs may be different than mine and you don’t need to hold it up for more than a few minutes at a time. Myself, I have to keep a steady shot sometimes for up to an hour, so it wouldn’t work for me or my second camera person. But you can take that Steadycam Jr. and it will bolt up quite nicely to VariZoom’s DV Sportster when and if the time comes for you to invest in that sort of thing.
– Don