[Enzo Tedeschi]

:o)

You’re welcome, David.

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Check your canvas settings (at the top of your canvas window) – my bet is that you have it set to “Show Alpha”. Switch that off if it’s on…

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[Enzo Tedeschi]

Just goes to show what can be accomplished by picking up the manual. 🙂

We’re all here to help, mate, but the manual should always be your first stop.

I can’t count the number of times I have answered this same question in the last two weeks.

Anyhow, glad we could help – and don’t hesitate to post again… once you’ve glanced at the manual 🙂

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Peter,

There’s a checkbox in the log and capture window. It’s in the Clip settings tab, under audio, labeled “preview”. It’s off by default. Check it and you’ll get audio monitoring while digitising.

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Have you tried troubleshooting by connecting the deck directly to the card? I may be your switcher failing? If not, at least you will have ruled that out as a problem.

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Hey Trev,

Seems like you’re cranking away – good on you…

The easiest way to ensure you don’t muck clips up is to lock the vision tracks from being edited – look for the little padlock icon next to the track name. Click it and it will lock that track from changes.

Another option would be to select all the vision on the timeline and go Sequence Menu > Nest Items. This will collapse all your edits into one long continuous “submaster”. Be careful not to have any audio selected or it will nest that too. You will still be able to move that on the track though, so maybe wanna lock that anyway. You can still access the actual edits in the nest by double-clicking the nest on the timeline.

A third option would be to do a video mixdown – export the entire cut as a Quicktime, import it back in and lay it back up against your audio in the sequence.

Whatever option you take, MAKE SURE YOU DUPLICATE YOUR SEQUENCE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING! Work on a copy before you do anything drastic 🙂

I hope this helps, Trev.

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But bear in mind that FCE will lock you in to working in DV only.

The extra money is worth it for FCP Studio, especially because of the extra software you get – it’s almost like six times the potential productivity for no where near six times the price…

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JPG is a bad idea. You won’t get clean results that way.

Save them as PSD out of photoshop, and this will maintain the transparency you create in Photoshop when you import into FCP.

Once on the timeline, you can treat the clip as any other piece of video, and reveal it with a simple transition from the effects bin, or keyframe the properties in the motion tab.

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Have you rendered?

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Is this jittery playback even after you have rendered your sequence?

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