[Elijah Lynn]

I should also add that the other day I had a SD timeline and made a dvd with bottom field first and that plays back nicley on the LCD and my CRT.

Could this be my problem?

How can I convert a ProRes UpperField First file into bottom field first in compressor. The settings confuse me?

[Elijah Lynn]

Hi Jeffrey,

Everything works well now. I am using the ProRes codec and not the HDV codec on native HDV footage. I guess that is how it is supposed to be according to Walter.

Everything but the codec matches spot on. The bright green bar is the “preview bar” and I also did not have it set to render.

[Elijah Lynn]

Agreed on the upgrading!!

But after the beta period the operating system itself will be able to address more memory and it will be truly 64 bit. These 8 cores are only going to get faster! Something that doesn’t usually happen with computers. They built the hardware before the software!

[Elijah Lynn]

Hey Jacques,

During my search into the fix I found this link and this link that could help you out.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/150/854689
https://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7411650

One thing not mentioned though is that before you delete any file on your computer, just make a copy and add “.bak” to the end of it. You will be very happy you did and you can always delete them later.

Cheers,

[Elijah Lynn]

Ok, I figured my problem out. For some reason the “handed off” project contained CMYK JPG and CMYK TFF of the same slides buried in this mess and myriad of folders. Everything else in my sequence is the CMYK TFF. My problem is with the CMYK JPG, which thankfully I overlooked and did not have anywhere else in the file. I brought it into a new timeline and ended up clicking on the Jpeg (problem file) and wallah it opened up into a whole new layered image in FCP, like a nested sequence only a Jpeg, that’s right a friggin layered Jpeg! Now THAT would explain a few things. I tried opening this “layered jpeg” in Photoshop but it said it couldn’t recognize it. That is, until I changed the extension back to .psd only then would it want to recognize it!

So some wise guy decided, brilliantly I must say, that all you needed to do to make a .jpg out of a layered .psd was to just rename the file and that made it SO! What a genius he/she was, I bet that just made his/her day!!!

My goodness!

[Elijah Lynn]

I don’t think it is a corrupt file on your end. I think it is a correct system/preferences file.

I am still searching for it. My FCP renders the exact same “problem” image” in other parts of the sevuence without any problem whatsoever. I am going to go and open up and older version of this project and see if that works.

This must get figured out!

[Elijah Lynn]

This exact same message/error just happened to me. What is very odd is that I have a ton of still sin the sequence, all of which are CMYK, it was rendering fine (ProRes) yesterday and now it wont. It is also very odd because it is only the first image of the sequence it is having problems with. If I set the ins and outs to another image down the road it handles it just fine.

Every image but the first one it has decided it likes.

What is a bummer is that if I convert it to RGB the color dies big time and doesn’t even look close to the rest of the sequence. Even if I wanted to I wouldn’t the CMYK version has so much more life to it.

Although when I view the RGB and CMYK version in preview they both look the same dull boring washed out CMYK look you would expect.

I must figure this one out. Thanks for leading me to the right problem Shane.

[Elijah Lynn]

My gosh I cannot wait until Snow Leopard comes out!!

I now realize that even though my system had tons of Ram left Final Cut can only use 2560 MB (2.5 GB) of it!!! When Snow Leopard comes out and the new final cut on top of it I will be able to have my 20 sequences open no problem and probably raise it another 20 too!

Gonna treat this beast to another 4 GB when I purchase that upgrade!

[Elijah Lynn]

Thanks for confirming that. Before when I had my 20 sequences open it wasn’t even close to real time, more like stuttering and then stopping.

I set my Cmd+R to render the preview now. I have a new computer again!

Thanks to you and Rafael and everyone here at The Cow I was able to get this figured out very very quickly!

[Elijah Lynn]

That was it. The bright green bar is “preview” and it was not checked.

Thanks.