[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Here they are. The first shows the clip appearance in contrast with the selected option in the tool box, the second the warning sign. I could not add them to the post so I uploaded them to my web space.
https://www.totemsub.it/Upload/screengrab1.png
https://www.totemsub.it/Upload/screengrab2.png
Thank you
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

It’s great to know such a crucial app was developed. I can’t figure how Apple could (or would) not include the feature as a standard one in their release, since it’s feasible with a 8,00 USD app, leaving room for so many complaints and possibly customers migrating to other systems. Well, that, and the new beta drivers for Blackmagic design, lead me to buying FCP X today.
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Sorry, I don’t know how but a previous post showed here with a wrong subject. Here is the correct text:
Hello.
I made a search before posting, but if I’m not wrong there’s no previous post about the announcement of a beta driver from Blackmagic that will allow real time external monitoring with FCP X: https://www.blackmagic-design.com/press/pressdetails/?releaseID=26930
Regards
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

I am having the same problem with footage coming from a Canon HF-S100. FCP interpretates it wrong, labeling it with “none” as a field order. I am using the following walk around: in the browser, I set the clips to the correct “upper” before I drag them on the sequence. Just to make sure I did not forget anything, before delivering I select all the video in the sequence (no audio), check item properties (from the timeline, not the browser) and correct files that may be wrong. Then I export a video clip with the proves settings, and place it into a sequence with the master tape settings (HDV or DV). I am now sure everything is fine. Conforming to sequence will cause a zoom in is the clip is HD and the timeline is SD, so I find it best not to copy and paste the sequence’s clips in the new timeline, but the file I exported. Hope this helps.
Regards
Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Thank you! I’ll search that direction, it seems the only logical one.

Fabrizio

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

No. I tried to reinstall from scratch (OS.X to the latest version of Snow Leopard and on) a couple of times. Very time consuming, maybe useful for some other thing, but apparently not with this problem. Lately I switched to a double display. I am wondering if that could be an issue with the 8800GT GPU…….

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

The other point that makes me feel it’s not a codec problem is that I can edit the same project with the same footage on a Macbook Pro, media and scratch on an external single FW drive, must likely much slower (the MBP is a few months old while the Mac Pro is 2008, but disk speed wise there should be no match).
Fabrizio

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Well, there’s a problem here. I am using mixed formats. I have some HDV clips coming from a Sony HVR-V1, some coming from a HF100 Canon that FCP reads correctly about the fields order after importing with log and transfer pro res, and some from a Canon HF-s100 that are read as “none” as a field priority while they’re actually “upper”, so that I have to correct them in the “item properties” box. Occasionally some from a ContourHD. The sequence is ProRes HD 1080 50i. The warnings are not predictable, as they happen on different clips. More if there’s some overlay or such. But the strange thing is they come out even after a complete rendering, and vanish with the turn off/turn back on.
Fabrizio

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Thank you Michael.
I log and transfer the footage from the Canon HF S100, so it’s actually transferred into Apple ProRes. The one coming from the action camera has a MP4 extension, and it’s ready to use, but I tried transcoding it to ProRes and a bunch of other different codecs as well. I tried to drop the clips onto a 1920×1080 ProRes sequence, and also tried to export the clips both via Compressor and Export as a self contained Quick time movie. I tried deinterlacing the clips, and changing the field order both in the browser and via the video filter. None of this seems to work, but I saw a lot of video samples coming from 1080p footage not as jittery as the one I get, which is really too bad to be accepted.
The reason I’d like to get it working fine is that low light performance of the Canon HF S100 is said to get better in 1080p, and that the action camera do no have any interlaced option, so I’d have to drop it.
Thank you again, and best regards
Fabrizio

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy

[Fabrizio D’agnano]

Hi.
It seems you’re right here. I checked the browser, and while the footage coming from the HF100 is marked as “upper field”, the one coming from the HF S100 shows “none”. Now, is there some way I understand if the problem is with FCP not interpreting right the footage coming from that cam, or a problem with the cam itself?
Thank you, and best regards
Fabrizio

Fabrizio D’Agnano
Rome, Italy