Greg Strange
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I have other drives as well. One of them is a 1.8TB SATA Raid (five 400MB Seagates). It doesn’t matter which drive(s) I put my media files on and set up as a scratch disk, I’ve still got the lag. Contrary to yours Chris, the problem occurs irregardless of how long the machine has been on. I can boot first thing in the morning, launch FCP and the lag will be there. I don’t know how you live with this, scrubbing can only get you so far. Thank you for your response though. Hopefully someone will be able to help us out. BTW, I forgot to mention in my first post, my G5 is running 4.5GB RAM.
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Yes, the second drive is the primary scratch disk. It contains the media files only. It has 90GB left on it–not a lot, but that shouldn’t be stopping the playhead like this.
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I’m having the same trouble. Even stills that I don’t apply any movement to look terrible–noisy, aliased–like a field dominance issue. I installed FCP Studio (FCP5) onto a freshly installed Tiger on a brand new Seagate Barracuda HD (2.5 dual G5). In FCP I’m using Apple’s easy set up for DV NTSC. Quicktime 7.01. It doesn’t seem to matter what RT quality setting I use, stills are ugly. I changed field dominance to “none” and that helped a little but they still look bad. Static stills are noisy (crawling edges). One post on this thread says, “motion or resizing on stills looks bad even after rendering, unless I use ‘fastest’ under Motion Quality Setings”. Using “fastest” does not work in my case. I created this file in FCP 4 and did not have any problem with stills. Can anyone offer a solution to this frustrating issue? This seems so basic.
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I spent a thousand dollars on an app that can’t move a still photo without it looking like hell? I’ve read this entire thread and tried the few suggestions and the only thing that’s come close to making my stills look better in FCP5 is setting field dominance to “none”. They still look terrible though. Even when I don’t apply a move some of my stills are noisy and have aliased edges. This is terrible Apple. Is there no work around for this?
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Steve Roberts answered my question:
Try turning field separation off on interpretation. It tends to mess up static clips.
Thanks a lot, Steve. I love this message board.
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Steve Roberts answered my question:
Try turning field separation off on interpretation. It tends to mess up static clips.
Thanks a lot, Steve. I love this message board.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
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No I have not figured it out yet. I check my mail every day to see if I have anything from Creative Cow. This is killing me.
I tried your suggestion, dragging the footage to the “create new comp” icon. This made no difference. The preview is poor as well as the render.
I’m going to start a new thread with a screencap to see if someone can pinpoint my problem. Thank you for your input though. Here’s the screen cap, 100% to scale. The second window showing the clean image is simply the footage window inside AE.
https://www.9mmmedia.com/galant_screencap.jpg
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Yes, pixel aspect ration is off. Turning it on or off seems to have no effect on the image. I was hoping it was something simple like that but AE doesn’t really offer much in terms of settings for quality/resolution.
If anyone is willing, I’d love to send a small clip and see if you have the same resolution issue in AE that I’m experiencing.
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I’m using FCP’s built-in codec for DV. It doesn’t offer any choices for codecs. Besides, that doesn’t explain why my clip looks good in FCP and poor in AE.