[Hilleke Doevendans]

Seen it. Tried it. Different problem.

My clip isn’t actually compressing at all. The file is stuck at less than a third and try as I might I can’t cancel it. I can’t stop it. I can’t get rid of it by closing the program. I can’t even get rid of it by re-starting.

I’ve tried re-installing, as that’s the only advice Apple gives, but have hit problems with that too. Please someone help!

[Hilleke Doevendans]

Thanks Rafael, I’ll give that a go. I think I’m getting closer. Worst case, I’ve i can de-interlace every sequence – that seems to work, but isn’t quite as smooth.

In response to Chris – no, unfortunately the suite I’m working on has no CRT. It’s on the list to be ordered though. Hopefully soon!

Thanks everyone for your help. Hope you all have lovely weekends!

[Hilleke Doevendans]

In the browser, the field dominance is ‘lower (even)’

By codec, do you mean the compressor? I’ve tried uncompressed 10bit PAL, none and Animation (which FC defaulted to with this media).

I think I’ve solved the media problem, but still need to work out how to export titles as lower field from the timeline to mpeg2. I’m up to chapter 30 in the manual… maybe I’ll hit on an answer soon!

[Hilleke Doevendans]

quick update –

I duplicated the 2nd language timeline (the one with good video, bad titles) and replaced the titles with the original english ones. exported, burnt disc. The video is good, the titles are jittery.

So I’m thinking there is some hidden timeline setting, and somehow my titles are the wrong field order. Is this possible? If so, how do I fix it?

In the browser it says all my timelines are lower field first. I know FCP defaults to upper, but my video is lower so i thought that would be best. Can I change the titles? Or do I need to re-export the video from Avid?

Any suggestions?

[Hilleke Doevendans]

Thanks David and Graeme,

I had dropped the clip in but hadn’t included it in my process above.
As Graeme mentioned he’s helped me out via email and the problem is solved. I missed a setting which I should have changed. The end result looked lovely.

Here’s Graeme’s tips, if anyone’s interested…
Things to check:

1) that the NTSC sequence really is NTSC – that it’s 29.97fps

2) that you drop the same PAL clip into the source well as you dropped on the timeline and they have the same in point.

3) Filter is set to PAL to NTSC. Nesting should be off, rest of settings are probably ok.

4) Don’t export direct to compressor from FCP. Export a movie out first by File -> Export -> Quicktime Movie, keep current settings, make self contained.

[Hilleke Doevendans]

That does help.
They did send the tiff it was linked to, so we’ve managed to re-create it.

Thanks heaps!