Ella Currer
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Thank you, Dave. We’re capturing off tape with remove pulldown selected so that the footage comes in progressive, not interlaced. We are currently mixing these clips with the P2 clips on a timeline and it looks fine (all properties of the two differently sourced clips are exact same except for their compressors).
Our sequence settings are the same as our P2 media: 23.98fps, DVCPRO HD 1080p30 compressor with field dominance set to none. So the tape-sourced clips (whose compressor is 1080i60) appear not native when put into this timeline (we get the gray/green render bar above it).
This might not be a big technical issue but I don’t know why the tapes aren’t capturing as 1080p30 since the pulldown is removed and I don’t know how to force it to be so. I don’t want to mix compressors on a timeline if I don’t have to.
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Hey Dave,
Where do you weigh in on clean install vs upgrade? -
No, just an upgrade. That’s what I’m sort of narrowing it down to too. Anyone do a clean install and experiencing this? In the meantime, I’ll clean install.
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Thanks, guys. The question is not how to render but why in FCP 7 only are frames dropping over simple alphas like text with drop shadow. I used this exact same composition in FCP 6 and there were no dropped frames. I upgrade to 7 and there are dropped frames.
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Just speed up a clip that has audio and its audio will speed up too. Select the clip, go to the Modify menu and select Change Speed. Enter 150 for rate and play it back. Audio will have the sped up sound quality.
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Thanks, guys. The thing is that I didn’t get the error message on this exact same composite in FCP 6 and now I do. Once rendered, it plays without error message but the playback is slow over the clip with the alpha. In FCP 6 it played back smooth.
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Hi, yes I get the orange bar above the clip (and any alpha graphic I try to use) and if I render it, it plays fine. The problem is in FCP 6 I never had to render, it would play through composites that were much complicated without any rendering. So something is wrong in that it’s forcing a render when Dynamic playback should easily be able to handle something this basic (text with drop shadow).