Hamish Lyons
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Sometimes you find .mpg audio is muxed (embedded) within the clip and won’t read within final cut. I would suggest downloading “mpeg streamclip” and try de-muxing the clip.
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no sooner had I written this post I had gone back to motion and lo and behold in the preferences is an option to choose where content library is sourced from!
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try distort and basic motion
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I often find this as a problem of dropping anamorphic footage into sequence for which is is not intended and in these instances it is easily fixed by removing the distort attributes. the quick way to do this is select all squished clips, cmd+alt+v (remove attributes) and uncheck distort.
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feathering doesnt seem to help but putting the video track on-top does! good solution, simple yet i just didnt think laterally, or vertically as the case may be.. thank you
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in times I have encountered this general error it has often come down to corrupted media. I would try rendering in sections to isolate the area, then re-inserting fresh media from source. also try cutting and pasting the whole cut into a fresh sequence. if you can isolate the issue clip and these dont work possibly re-capturing. otherwise try changing your capture scratch, even in user prefs change the real-time audio render to 12 tracks can help… if you are working on a san it can also be permission areas
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that said, it is amazing how many people struggle with images in something like Final Cut, slamming the processor by shifting around 300dpi photos when a simple re-size to the video pixel dimensions, either making it near to 1920 pixels wide (In an HD example) or dropping the dpi to something like 72dpi, (only because it makes the filesize smaller with resampling) I think 72 is PC screen res and 96 is mac screen res, can make moving still images in FC so much faster…
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Ok cool, so I will be making quicktime exports for the graders, best to use best before making these.
And so Walter when you say ‘final renders’ do you mean when you use edit to tape or print to video, before laying back to tape Final Cut renders all that is normal to best? -
Yes its definitely a tricky one. I’ve tried changing the sequence compression to 8-bit among others and this does help but there are still slight artifacts. We will continue with different methods of exporting pieces so that even the graders can have a good go at it. many thanks
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thats what I wanted to hear!
thanks Walter