[Greg Nicholson]

Oh, just saw your post Phil. Thanks. Changing the servo ref was definitely central.

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[Greg Nicholson]

Well I tried that and it didn’t help so I didn’t bother telling you.

Additionally, according to the Final Cut manual both are acceptable.
“To perform the assemble edit, do one of the following:

Drag your clip or sequence from the Viewer or Browser to the Assemble section of the Edit Overlay.

Open your clip or sequence in the Viewer, then click the Assemble Edit button.

Drag the clip or sequence to the Assemble Edit button.”

So anyway… solved the issue. I changed Servo Ref from External to Input video, increased the PreRoll from 3 to 10 seconds. These sets dramatically improved the timing issues. At this point we were only off by about 12 frames. So I adjusted the playback offset in the Device Control Preset editor.
Just did two 57 minute layoffs and they are 100% frame accurate. Success!

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[Greg Nicholson]

oh, because 1080i59.94 is actually 60 FIELDS (approx) and the frame rate is still 30 (approx)

correct?

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[Greg Nicholson]

The Item Properties in FCP tell me the clip is: Compressor: Apple ProRes 422 Vid Rate 29.97

Since my output is 59.97 is the frame rate the issue? Even though I have a 1080i59.97 seq and output, the sequence still says 29.97 Edit Timebase. This confuses me…

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[Greg Nicholson]

I hope it’s as easy as that… but when I drop the clip in the timeline and FCP asks if I want to change the seq settings to match the clip, I say Yes and the sequence codec settings change to ProRes 422.

The MPEG-4 information I got from a little program called Media Info that can look at clips and tell the user info on the clip. I’m not sure how accurate it is because the guy I got the clip from told me it was ProRes and FCP’s behavior seem to reflect that.

thoughts?

thanks.

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[Greg Nicholson]

I drop my sequence in the Viewer window and I click the Assemble button in the ETT window.

Yes, I’m laying off the entire sequence. I will try removing the OUT point from my seq. and respond promptly with whether that worked.

Clip info:
MPEG-4 (Quicktime)
138 Mbps 1920*1080 (16×9) at 29.97 fps

Sequence settings:
See Above

Audio/Video Settings
Video Playback: Blackmagic HD 1080i 59.94 – 8 bit 1920×1080

Thanks!

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[Greg Nicholson]

Thanks Greg. That fixed everything! As soon as I deleted the codec I was up and running, solid as ever.

Fat pixelation and gray lines are gone.

cheers,
Greg

[Greg Nicholson]

Sequence Preset Used:
1920*1080 HDTV 1080i (16*9) SQ Pixels
Field Dominance – Upper (odd)
Compressor – XDCAM HD422 1080i60 50Mbps

Thanks!