[Frank Day]

Some follow-up on my situation. I reinstalled the OS, no change. I reinstalled FCS, no change. I reset PRAM, no change. I called apple support.

It is not clear what the problem was but it had to do with mixing codec’s. We started another sequence and put in some of the same clips, mixing SD with HD and the problem did not surface with this small trial. I have no idea exactly what the issue was but it looks like I can just drag and drop the stuff in the old sequence to this sequence and the issue won’t reappear. If it does then I will be back on the phone with apple and will get back to everyone and report again here.

[Frank Day]

Well, I don’t remember exactly how I installed all this stuff. Most of ithas been upgrades since FCP 1. However, I think I had to do a clean install when I changed to an intel machine. I got this machine when I started working with HD files as rendering and smoothcam was taking 24-36 hours on my old G5 on HD files. I think I will reinstall everything just in case to see if that fixes things.

One thing about the sequence. I have all these short snippets of people giving testimonials about my product. This sequence I am having trouble with is my trying to “upgrade” some of my older SD files with some of my newer HD files. It is a mix/match of SD, AVCHD 1080i, and Canon 7D 1080P trying to get a common HD out for youtube and my web site.

[Frank Day]

So, here is what I did. I discarded the preferences file and restarted FCP. I opened a 13minute clip that was completely rendered. I added some text for a short 15 second clip or so that required rendering of that clip. I rendered that sequence. After it rendered, that clip changed to “blue” above indicating it was rendered but the entirety of the sequence, that had been rendered before turned to red, indicating it needs to be rendered again.

[Frank Day]

Well, I am running FCP 7.0.1 with Snow Leopard on a 8 core MP. I thought I gave plenty of information about my system in my post but if you don’t know what is wrong you don’t know what information is important.

Anyhow, I am “glad” to see I am not alone with this problem. Maybe now we can figure out what is wrong. I will try to trash the permissions and repair preferences (which I had not done) to see if it makes a difference.

[Frank Day]

I have been having a similar problem. I posted a “what is going on with my computer” question and it was met with stunning silence. I have been able to return the rendered files by restoring to an earlier save (I save frequently) but I question why I should have to do so.

[Frank Day]

Thanks. I have been doing a lot of reading and learning (or so I hope). It looks like Canon has corrected a lot of the problems with the 5D in the 7D as the the 30 fps is really a 29.97 in the 7D and similarly for the 24, 25, 50 and 60 fps settings seem to be more correct for most uses.

[Frank Day]

Thanks. The article seemed straight forward enough until I went to try it. I have a MacBook pro that I tried it on first and everything seemed to work correctly. When I selected the options button on I got the option to chose one or two instances. But, when I did the same thing I wasn’t given that choice. I have taken a screen shot of what I got so you can see what I got. I will see if I can attach it as this board works differently than most I am used to.

[IMG]https://i45.tinypic.com/2mmu1cp.jpg[/IMG]

Here is the site you can view the image if that didn’t work.

https://i45.tinypic.com/2mmu1cp.jpg

Anyhow, It lists “this computer” 16 times and I am not give a choice of changing the number of “instances”.

Any thoughts.

[Frank Day]

How does one “enable it” for this purpose. I opened it and it wasn’t obvious what to do. Thanks for the help everyone.

[Frank Day]

Yes, I am sure it is H264. It was strange to me that it seemed to work (it may not have worked well, but worked) when I tried it out a week ago. It also seems strange that it will do smoothcam and output in quicktime conversion but not quicktime.

Anyhow, I don’t have a problem using compressor to change the file type when I bring it in. I have just done that and am trying it (smooth cam is rendering as we speak, I converted it to an XDCAM1080p file, the only 1080p format I could find).

Is what I did the best way of doing this conversion? Is there a format type you would recommend that I use to make this go smoothly.

[Frank Day]

Enable Q master? Ugh no. I always thought that was for an environment with several computers working on one project. How does one “enable” it for use in a single computer system. When I just opened the application it was looking for me to give batches to submit. Most of what I want to do is in FCP, rendering or smoothcam etc.