[Eliot Piltz]

Rather than start a new topic, I have a related question. Can someone advise me on the render settings for a final output of a show I’m finishing? It was edited at ProRes422HQ, graded in Apple Color and rendered out in 16-bit ProRes4444. Now back in FCP, there are many titles, subtitles, transitions, speed changes etc. that have to be rendered. Should I set the video processing to high-precision YUV or RGB? This is going to HDCAM SR for festivals, but of course should be broadcast safe, as we only want to make one master. Also, is there any need to change the ProRes gamma settings to None, or will “Automatic” not mess anything up?

Thanks very much!
Eliot

Mac Pro 2.66 GHz 8-core (4,1); 12 GB Memory
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (512 MB); ACD 30″ and 24″ dual display
Sony BVM-L230, Blackmagic Intensity Pro, Drobo 8-bay 16 TB
OS X 10.6.2, FCP 7.0.2

[Eliot Piltz]

Thanks for clarifying Jeremy. The HA5 itself turned out to be dead. I would have brought it right back to the rental house but it was delivered to me after they were closed for the weekend, so I had to troubleshoot it to no avail, and wait for Monday to roll around. Thanks again.

Mac Pro 2.66 GHz 8-core (4,1); 12 GB Memory
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (512 MB); ACD 30″ and 24″ dual display
Sony BVM-L230, Blackmagic Intensity Pro, Drobo 8-bay 16 TB
OS X 10.6.2, FCP 7.0.2

[Eliot Piltz]

It doesn’t work on my system. Thanks though.

I have found a very ugly workaround though, for anyone interested. I have edited the XML files in the CLIP directory, removing all text between the Audio tags. Now I can see the clips in FCP’s Log and Transfer tool, and am able to import them!!! Like I said, ugly workaround, but I’ll take it. Problem solved. Thanks!

[Eliot Piltz]

You can open MXFs in QT? Do you need any particular component(s)? Here are mine, in case that is of any use (incompatibilities for example). Thanks for your suggestions.

AC3MovieImport.component
AppleHDVCodec.component
AppleIntermediateCodec.component
AppleProRes422.component
Blackmagic Codec.component
DesktopVideoOut.component
DVCPROHDCodec.component
DVCPROHDMuxer.component
DVCPROHDVideoDigitizer.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutput.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutputClock.component
DVCPROHDVideoOutputCodec.component
FCP Uncompressed 422.component
IMXCodec.component
LiveType.component
Motion.component
MP3.component
Perian.component
QSXEssentials.component
REDCODE.QT.component
Spectrograph.component

[Eliot Piltz]

I thought it would work, but it just gave me a black picture. The slate on frame 2 is there, but just black after that. I was using the Demo of course, so it was only 10 sec, but still I think it should work.