Doug Olin
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When I get this problem I change the edit in point a few frames and then it works. I get this error sometimes with a D9 and IO.
BTW what do you have set as your preroll with the D9 deck? I had to set mine to 8 seconds or it won’t lock up in time. All my other machines (DVCPro, DVCPro 50, Beta Sp) can use a 3 second preroll but the D9 needs 8 seconds.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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We have a AJ-D750 DVCPro deck that wouldn’t edit from FCP via the IO at first. After attempting several insert edits, I changed the RS-422 to Panasonic RS-422 in the device control window setting and then it worked great. I use it every week without problem. It looks like you’ve already tried the Panasonic RS-422 setting so if that doesn’t work, I’m not sure what else to try. Here are the settings from my working device control window for DVCPro.
Protocol: Panasonic RS-422
Time Source: LTC + VITC
Port: FireWire
Audio Device Control mapping (Ch1-8): 2 Channels
Frame Rate: 29.97
Do not use deck search mechansism
Pre-roll: 3 seconds
Post-roll: 3 seconds
Capture Offset: -2.000 frames
Handle Size: 00:00:00:00
Playback Offset: 00:00:00:07Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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That did the trick. I never use the Boris transitions so I was troubleshooting the problem for another editor. I use Boris Red all the time for titling and other effects but not for transitions. You can open the Red control panel for the other items without parking the playhead over the clip on the timeline. Thanks for the help.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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Make sure the video input setting on the front of the deck is in the firewire setting and it should pass the video through to the analog video out. It works in similar fashion on an AJ-D95 deck we have.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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You didn’t mention what version of FCP you’re using but I’ll assume it’s version 5. I installed v. 5 two weeks ago and used it for a few days before reverting to 4.5 due to the numerous problems. The only project I opened in ver. 5 was originally created in ver. 4.5. One of the problems was the soft edges on some oval shapes were flickering. I changed the motion filter to fastest and rerendered and that took care of the problem. Don’t remember where the setting was since it’s a new (buggy) feature in ver. 5.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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Boris Red 3.02 will work with FCP HD. I use it all the time with both static and moving titles. Red makes up for some of the lacking items in FCP like layered graphics, rolling titles and 3D text. The title roll in Red can be adjusted for speed and length unlike the roll in Title crawl. You can have layered graphics in Red but you can’t do that in Title 3D. (That may have changed in FCP 5.) You can make 3D text or bring in eps files to make 3D objects in Red which you cannot do anywhere in FCP. Red works very well with FCP HD. When you install it make sure you select to make it available as a plugin for FCP
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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Quicktime 7 may the culprit. It’s installed with Tiger. Not sure that you can run Tiger without QT 7 but it might be possible. I upgraded to Final Cut Studio last week using archive and install and had so many problems I downgraded later in the week. Things that worked in FCP HD did not work after the upgrade to FCP 5. I suspect QT 7 will be found to be the ultimate source of most of the problems upgraders are having with FCP 5. I’m waiting for a bug fix of both FCP 5 and QT 7 that actually works before trying FCP 5 again.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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When you install Continuum you need to select Final Cut Pro as one of the applications to install the plugin for. It defaults to After Effects only. Final Cut Pro is on the list.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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I had this problem several weeks or months back. When I tried to use undo, it would separate linked clips and toss the fragments around the timeline. It made for very messy editing for a while. I trashed render files that were associated with the timeline and that seemed to clear it up. Undo works fine now.
Doug Olin
Pensacola Christian CollegeG5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB
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I installed FCP 5 on Monday and opened up a project started on FCP 4.5. I had major problems including constant dropped frame warnings, needing to render cross dissolves with only 2 video streams on the timeline, transitions not allowing alpha channel info to pass and log and capture becoming a 2 step process. I think many of the problems are related to QT 7 as I’ve seen numerous posts about dropped frames with QT 7 on systems that didn’t have that problem before. I also had jittery video in the soft border masks around some PIP footage. I had to change the motion filter settings to get rid of the jitters which meant wasting 1.5 hours rerendering everything on the timeline. Apple dropped the ball on this version. I suspect much of the blame goes to QT 7 but I can’t be sure since FCP requires QT 7. They have to assume that thousand of users will be upgrading systems and opening projects created on earlier versions. In my test this week, you can’t open an old project, update it to FCP 5 and have everything work like it did in FCP 4.5.
I’m downgrading to 10.3.9 with QT 6.5.2 and FCP 4.5. At least with that combo everything worked like it was supposed to.
G5 DP 2.0, 2 GB RAM, FCP HD, IO, OS 10.3.9, Medea RT3X 1200 GB