Gordon Gurley
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[JeremyG] “If you check ‘self contained’ and leave ‘recompress all frames’ UNchecked, you aren’t compressing the footage again, the OS is basically taking all of your media and concatenating it into one file (a digital copy, not a recompression).
“That’s great to know, thank you for that info.
[JeremyG] “Shane Ross has a DVD on how to get organized in FCP:
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Actually. I have that DVD! But I’m too busy to watch it! I’ll get around to it ASAP!Don’t get me wrong, FCP let’s me do way more, and much faster than Avid ever could (at least last time I used it). But when it comes crunch time and you need to hit Fedex, FCP falls short where Avid would come through.
I’m just trying to decrease my stress level!
Maybe I should switch to Sanka.
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First off, thanks for all your input.
Typically, if I get a dropped frame error, I run it again from the top and it all goes fine. But I still think that 50% failure is not acceptable. This isn’t baseball. These are computers.
If I do the self contained export, don’t I take a hit in quality by running the codec twice? It has been suggested that I do this, but typically I’m limited by time and space.
BTW, I hardly ever get dropped frames in capture. Can’t remember the last time.
If it is something in my timeline, how can I figure out what the corrupting clip or file is?
I will make sure to select all during mixdown next time.
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My goodness, are you kidding? Use video cable designed for HD use, try Belden. Any barrels or adapters cause signal loss. Avoid them if you can.
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Mastering. I just assemble from in to end plus 20 sec black. Sorry, I incorrectly used “insert” a few posts back. Pick-up edit would be a better term.
DVW A500
From the manual:
Final Cut Pro automatically renders all effects that cannot be played back at full
quality in real-time prior to output using the Print to Video or Edit to Tape
commands, so long as Full Quality is selected in the Real-Time (RT) pop-up menu in
the Timeline.Just to clarify, ETT works quite well about half the time. That’s what’s so frustrating.
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Walter,
What’s the thinking behind this? Do you get better disk performance? Peace of mind?
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Jeremey,
With all due respect: My SAN is reporting 160 MB/s according to Apple’s own testing app. Quite enough for 2 streams of DVCProHD. Except for a few graphics, all files and seq are set the same (or I would have to render everything). The edit is actually quite simple, albeit long.My problem isn’t so much with the dropped frames, I’ve come to expect that. It’s the completely wacky behavior of ETT. I just think that this part of FCP is way too unstable for a “Professional” app. It drives me nuts and makes me long for Avid, which hardly ever had this problem.
When I need to do an insert edit, and ETT decides to cut to black instead of the shot I wanted, or is multiple seconds off, I think the problem lies deeper than disk speed or rendering.
Maybe it’s XSAN. If most out there are having great success with ETT, then I guess I need to look elsewhere for the problem.
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If you are really desperate, set to Non controllable device and do a capture now. I will do it’s best to get everything. Of course, you will have no TC to reference later if need be.
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The SAN is the scratch for both captures and renders. As for formats, are you talking seq and capture settings? It’s all DVCPro HD. As far as rendering goes, isn’t that the job of the software? I mean it typically goes through it’s render process before an ETT anyway. I assume it’s rendering what it thinks it needs to render based on disk speed, processor, RAM, etc. I tend to render everything anyway, but occasionally I let the software figure it out. What is RT Extreme anyway, if nothing but a bunch of marketing hype?
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Can you use a shorter cable? Cable quality, type and length are all important with HD.
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I think we had to use an Uncompressed format to preserve the CC. Any of the DV flavors seemed to remove it. Hope that helps.