Gordon Gurley
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read the response above. I’ll try rendering locally and see if that changes anything.
Gordon Gurley
Director of Operations
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We just did the big upgrade to FCS2 and upgraded to the latest QT. That’s when I noticed this problem. But we’ve been having similar problems for a while now. Maybe a year or so. The old problem has been that scaling anything looks bad. But the erratic animation is a new “feature”.
Gordon Gurley
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FCP 6.03
QT 7.4.5
Intel and G5
10.4.11
AJA and native
Sony CRT, JVC LCD
XSAN 1.4.2DV timeline ( please don’t flame me for using DV. I’m in education, and DV has been a great format for what we do. I’m not making BMW commercials here).
Place a still (tif, jpeg, png, psd) over DV footage. Keyframe scale and position. Render.
All hell breaks lose. Sometimes the still appears to go into “low res mode”, ala setting your canvas to 1/4 res. Sometimes it doesn’t look so bad, but the animation “jumps”. Sometimes it’s just one frame that’s bad, sometimes it’s skipping all over the place.
Changing sequence settings sometimes helps. But I haven’t been able to isolate the problem because often when the problem goes away, it goes away completely, ie I can go back to the settings that were having the problem and it will render fine.
Could it have anything to do with the fact that I’m on shared storage?
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Sorry for such an inflammatory post. I’ve been using FCP since 1.25, and to see the motion tab functionality deteriorate over the years has been frustrating. We rely on it to do quick and dirty motion graphics and it was part of the reason to move to FCP and away from Avid.
But maybe that’s my problem: I’m stuck in and old way of doing it and haven’t figured out the “new way”.
But on the other hand, it’s not just me. All my editors are having this problem and are bringing it to me to figure it out.
That’s why I’m here.
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I think this is a QT bug. Or a FCP bug. I just had the same thing happen. I got it to stop, but not sure why. Try trashing prefs. I tried a bunch of stuff and eventually it stopped, but I couldn’t recreate the problem, so I’m at a loss as to what the problem was.
Gordon Gurley
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[James Whittington] “This would seem to me to defeat the whole purpose of an editing program! “
You said it right there. FCP is an editing program, not a motion graphics program. FCP used to be an all-in-one edit/graphics/motion app, but sadly, Apple has decided to break that functionality out to different apps (Motion, Color, etc). There are lots of things that FCP used to do well that just don’t work anymore. There are probably many that disagree with me, but I find I have to use other apps much more now to get acceptable results.
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Also, realize that unless you are at 100% on your canvas, you aren’t seeing both fields of interlaced footage. It’s easy to make field mistakes if you aren’t looking at your footage on a broadcast monitor.
Gordon Gurley
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NTSC monitor
I see this every once in a while, especially on stills. A clip looks ok in “preview” (bright green line) , but after rendering it completely falls apart.
Could it be a quicktime bug? Or related to the AJA card?
Gordon Gurley
Director of Operations
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But that’s the thing, it’s not just when you expand them, it also sucks when you shrink them. A colleague commented that FCP used to do this very well, but in the last few versions (5 & 6, maybe even 4), it started sucking. Maybe the move to support HD broke some stuff, or they had to cut back on some things.
Gordon Gurley
Director of Operations
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When I spoke to some of the FCP developers a couple years ago, they gave me the impression that they did read “forums” (don’t know if the Cow was included). They actually had 3-4 people that seemed to be active in monitoring the forums. Maybe they lied or maybe they just don’t have the time anymore.