[Gabe Thorburn]

So to make sure I understand – in both upper and lower field dominance timelines, you get a QuicktIme that says that it has no field dominance?

When you export a QuickTime Movie (not Quicktime conversion), the Quicktime should correspond to whatever your sequence settings are.

[Gabe Thorburn]

There’s nothing to fear. The reports are saying that the new version tomorrow will be awesome for professionals. I’m looking forward to seeing the positive improvements to Final Cut!

We should see a newly written FCP with 64bit that takes advantage of multithreading, I’m sure the GUI will be different, but nothing should change with the way clips are edited and moved in the timeline.

Even if they introduce feature which you are not crazy about such as the ability to connect to an ipad, you don’t have to use them. They are, and have been, building on the foundation of FCP’s great timeline editing since the first version.

[Gabe Thorburn]

Hello,

How are you exporting the quicktime?

[Gabe Thorburn]

I just updated to the latest Kona driver (7.5.1) that was released not too long ago, and the problem with playing through the gaps has been fixed.

Gabe

[Gabe Thorburn]

I started using the io Express after upgrading to Snow Leopard, but I have never seen anything like this on Tiger with Kona 3.

Yes, it\’s good to know someone else with the problem. I\’ll check in with AJA again, and be sure to let you know of anything I learn.

[Gabe Thorburn]

its why hardware is needed to do really highend output

After a second look at your post, I see you are referring to the CPU hardware, obviously. Sorry for the misunderstanding – I was confused at first in regards to what you were saying. However, I am curious about what the AJA does exactly in terms of actual hardware acceleration.

[Gabe Thorburn]

“If my frame rate is set to full, how could it be lagging behind with external video turned off?”
that is not what you said. I quote you from the first post under #1 “With External Video turned off, I am able to play ProRes 422 in the timeline perfectly with no dropped frames”

My first post is accurate. ProRes plays perfectly with external video turned off. You did give an explanation about the ProRes, which I guess makes sense (about the AJA making FCP play out higher quality video). If you can direct me to an in-depth tech explanation on this, that would be helpful.

Again- the Aja (BMD or Matrox) hardware forces FCP to act professionally, even more than just the settings- its why hardware is needed to do really highend output

What hardware are you referring too? I thought the AJA is the hardware that the computer needs to move the video along at the highest standards?

Its not the video that is lagging behind- the holes in the timeline are causing the audio to play faster as it is rendered – as I said in the first post – conforming the Video does not conform the audio. If the Audio is not 48K it can be a problem, I do not believe that the canon cameras use 48k audio.

The holes in the timeline that I have are gaps without video/audio. I am not using slugs. I’m just trying to play through a gap (i.e different versions of a scene spaced out in a timeline), but the video takes several seconds to re-appear on the monitor, and when it does appear it is playing in slow motion. Again, this is for a DVCPro HD timeline through the ioExpress. The audio that I do have in the timeline is all 48K aiffs recorded separately from the 5D. This has to be something with the AJA ioExpress, no? It seems very buggy. I have no idea what is going on here.

Thanks again for your help,
Gabe

[Gabe Thorburn]

Gary,
Okay, thank you for the insight.

“( bet your RT timeline does not say “Accurate” for TC and your Prefs are not set to “Force all frames” )”

My RT settings are as follows: Safe RT (checked), Playback Video Quality (Dynamic), Playback frame rate (full), Gamma correction (accurate). What are you refering to with the “accurate” for TC setting? If my frame rate is set to full, how could it be lagging behind with external video turned off? I appreciate your help, but I’m just trying to understand this fully.

I apologize, but I am confused about what you are saying with ProRes and the hard drives. I can accept that my MacBook Pro is on the fringe of its capabilities of playing ProRes. I’ve known ProRes to always be CPU / RAM based, but how are the hard drives an issue? Hard drives deal with data rates only, no? DVCPRO HD has a higher data rate and the same data rate as ProRes proxy and ProRes LT.

Thank you again,

Gabe

[Gabe Thorburn]

Yes, one would suspect the hard drive, but it plays fine when external video is turned off. The ProRes proxy codec is giving just as much trouble as ProRes 422. DVCPro HD 1080 plays fine, and DVCPro HD is at a much higher data rate than ProRes proxy. It must be something with either Final Cut or the io Express.

It’s playing through a gap in the timeline that gives me the problem. I’ve never had external video mess up like that on the gaps before.

With the audio , there is a missing step in my outlined workflow. It is recorded separately, slowed down by .1% and synced together in FCP.

Gabe

[Gabe Thorburn]

Thanks for the help.

Since this is a film-based project, we are unable to use Automatic Duck to export the all the master clips strung out in the timeline and maintain keycode metadata. That’s why we digitized off the ALE in Avid.

We’ve gotten the clips to re-link using the modify source function, but we are faced with one other obstacle. Is there any way that we can re-link the timeline to subclips (that are based on the original master clips), and not the master clips themselves? We still have to overcut the movie manually if we are unable to do this.

Thanks again for the help.