[Grant Keiner]

Hello all,
I must appologize for the late night panic post. I resolved my issue. It turns out there dropout was on the Quicktime I rendered out. The missing audio appeared to be there in the waveform overlay, but when I cleared the cache I saw that there were in deed areas missing audio. I simply re-exported the audio portion and the problem was solved.
My BMD gear performed wonderfully. As usual it appears to have been a little bit of human error combined with buggy beavior on the part of my FCP system.
thanks

[Grant Keiner]

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[Grant Keiner]

I am having the same problem with Final cut 5.
I have found that I can capture in 4.5 without a problem.
I am thinking about trying a different Firewire protocol in FCP 5. Have you done this?
have you found out what is causing the problems?
Thanks,
Grant Keiner

[Grant Keiner]

A couple of notes on Final Touch,

1- Final Touch seems to work best when you are using two computer CRT monitors. In fact it requires that you have two computer monitors.
2- On my last projecct we graded 11 episodes with final Touch, and we viewed 1080p down converted to 720p via a decklink HD pro. We still got full res on the second computer screen, but our color was all done on the Sony reference monitor. the fact was trying to watch the full Res coming out of the black magic was too slow, voidig any real-time advantages. 720p was slow, but bearable. The couple of Demo systems I’ve seen for Final Touch Seem to use two highend CRTs, with no “reference” monitor. The idea is that you can calibrate the computer CRT to what you need.
3- Final Touch HD gave us problems when re-importing to final Cut. Often a frame was missing at the end of the file. It appeared to be random. There were also a couple of exporting quirks like limiting the size of the sequence and making sure each clip had a unique name.
4- We were disappointed with the quality of some effects particualrly the blurs. they looked plain bad.

Finally. Final Touch really helped us speed up our workflow, despite these bugs. It was certainly faster than grading in After Effects, which was our other option. Now I think there might be another option you should consider, Motion 2. I have not personally used it But I believe it can do color correction, and HD. The idea behind motion and FInal Touch are the same. Before you drop thousands on Final touch Check out Motion 2. It’s cheeper and it might give you what you need, even if it doesn’t have the extensive catalogue of effects Final Touch does.

Hope that Helps
Grant Keiner

[Grant Keiner]

We are working in HD and our frame rate is 23.976. We checked the After Effects output and it is running at this rate. not 24fps. The 29.97fps is a bug that occurs when we try to fix the problem in Quicktime.
Thanks for your thoughts
Grant Keiner

[Grant Keiner]

Hi Jerry,
thanks for the reeply. our plan is to take them back into After Effects add a frame or two of black then re-render.

As we are working in Uncompressed HD this puts the sqeeze on our disk space.

Also I tried simple doubling the frame in Quicktime, then saving anew Quicktime movie. There is another bug in Quicktime which when you alter a 23.98 HD file changes the frame rate from 23.98 to 29.97 or at least FCP reads it as such. Which makes the file more or less useless as we need to output to 1080 23.98.

I wonder though if other folks have had similare problems. it seems to happen consistently when Rendering out of After Effects. We are also rendering out of Final Touch which randomly has this problem.

Thanks Again for the word of advice.
grant