Don Greening
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Sounds like someone dragged something to the trash they shouldn’t have, but unless I’m able to look over your shoulder anything I would suggest you look for that might be missing would just be a big fat guess. From the cluse you’ve provided my guess is something to do with your quicktime progam got lost. You’re much better off dragging the purpetrator back to your chair and finding out from him/her what folders or programming was used/opened, etc. And don’t let that person use your machine again without supervision 🙂
– Don
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It’s all good, Rick. It’s the difference (so I’m told) between looking at square pixels on your computer monitor and the reformatted aspect ratio for televisions, which use rectangular pixels. However it works, rest assured there’s nothing wrong with what you’re seeing. It’s supposed to work that way.
– Don
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[JNeo25] “Wouldn’t it be great if all problems could be solved with the flip of a switch?”
Indeed. And not just editing problems.
– Don
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Kyle,
Just do as Shane has recommended and you should be just fine. Take your media files offline in the browser, turn journalling off for your media drive and then recapture. Important note: make sure your capture and sequence settings reflect your source media. If you shot in 30p you also need to make your capture setting DV NTSC 48Khz, just like regular interlaced video.
If you tried to originally capture 30p to a 24p capture preset, no wonder you were dropping frames, as FCP was probably trying to remove 24p pulldown that didn’t exist.
The link below will show you how to set up FCP for capturing the various frame rates, among other things. Take the time to read the article and you’ll be a pro when you’re finished.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
– Don
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Jack,
Try trashing the FCP pref. files, then start FCP and try again. I know this works in OSX and may very well do the job for you in OS9. I’m assuming that everything is properly set to 48Khz in FCP already before you resort to trashing the pref. files.
You’ll find the files in: System Folder>Preferences>Final Cut Pro Data. Trash the files within named: “Final Cut Pro Preferences” and “Final Cut Pro MOA cache”. Leave the “Final Cut Pro User ID” file alone. Just drag them to the desktop and then restart FCP. You’ll need to reset all your user preferences, things like how many levels of undo, imported still image length etc. You won’t hurt anything by trashing the prefs. and it may very well cure your problem because the program will default to the capture and export codec of DV NTSC 48Khz. If everything works, only then should you drag the old pref files from your desktop into the trash.
Best of luck,
– Don
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Great. Thanks for the reply, Arnie.
– Don
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Arnie,
Does megaPegX do at least as good a job as Compressor v.1? You’re scaring me now, because I’m just about ready to transfer over to my new 2.7 G5 with FC Studio on it. Moving from my dual 800 G4, one of the biggest reasons why I upgraded was to enjoy the quicker encoding times of the faster G5 processors. But if Compressor 2 is a lame duck at the moment, what’s the point, really.
– Don
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Glad it worked out. I suspect you had too many tracks for FCP to play them all back perfectly and perform the prin to tape command all at the same time. That takes a lot of processing power. Bringing a self-contained QT movie back in to FCP is the quick fix.
– Don
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Yes. Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that.
– Don
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Have I got a good link for you. Everything you ever wanted to know about the DVX100, 24P and FCP. Take the time to read through the article and you’ll have a much better idea of what to do with your particular project.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html
– Don