Fred Miller
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I have long been a firm believer in using PCTs when in need of an alpha channel for stills. I just recently worked on a project in which all of the stills were prepped as PNGs and I decided to give it a try. I experienced slower renders, occasional crashes. I was working with hundreds of stills (all PNGs).
It may just be me, but I still prefer PCTs.
FCP Studio 2
Dual 3Gg Quad Core
5Gg RAM
KONA 2
OS 10.4.11 -
A couple of things to check.
Are you presetting your time code? Make sure you’re laying some control track down (at least enough for preroll). Then set your TC generator to regen and assemble. I like to put down 30 seconds of black – 1 minute bars/tone – 20 seconds slate – 10 secs black or countdown. If your TC starts at 00:58:00:00, then your program will start at 1:00:00:00.
If you have a selection on your deck for LTC – VITC – AUTO, try selecting LTC.
Also check to make sure your TC generator is set to REC RUN and not FREE RUN.
Hope this helps.
FCP Studio 2
Dual 3Gg Quad Core
5Gg RAM
KONA 2
OS 10.4.11 -
I just ran into the same error message while opening an older project (from 2005). It does seem to be a permissions problem. I was able to open the project on a different system (same version software) and then “save as.” The new project would then open in the edit suite that I wanted to work in.
FCP Studio 2
Dual 3Gg Quad Core
5Gg RAM
KONA 2
OS 10.4.11 -
Right click on the clip and bring up the format settings for the clip. The alpha should be set to “straight.” This should get you where you want to be.