[James Vellacott]

Dear bogiesan
After removing the external Hard drive initially this seemed to solve my problem, but after a a couple of tests the problem came back. This led me to remove all the FCP studio2 software using FCS remover and then reinstalling from the original discs. After a few tests the problem still appeared to be there and was erratic.
To recap when i keyframe a low res jpg from the right of the canvas to the left, before I ‘render all’, the pic plays and moves smoothly and clearly, but after rendering- you see the first frame, and then no ‘movement frames’, and then at the last frame suddenly appears in the finishing position (what beats me is that 50% of the time it doesn’t happen- same pic, same sequence).
The mac is a brand new imac 24″ 3.04 GHz 4Gb 800MHz RAM . I originally did a migration from my old mac. but have since reinstalled FCS2. I rang the my Applecare and they said I needed to spend £600 on FCP backup care. I cannot afford that so am still looking for any kinda advice or guidance. My new business uses a lot of pics in the videos and this is a major blow for me. Any ideas? Is there anyone I can call?
James

[James Vellacott]

For some reason the key-framed sequence will not play properly after rendering. Yes it should be complete after rendering but it only played correctly before render. Since our last correspondence I did a few test imports with photos and it appears that the problem may lie in the Omega 1tb 800 external HD which is the capture scratch. When the Hard drive is spinning the rendering is correct and complete. If the Imac is left for a few minutes and the external HD spins down and you try a render on the still image in the timeline, the render is not complete and the problem occurs. For now I have shut down the external HD and have reset the scratch to the internal HD…. it appears to be working at the moment. I use the same Omega 1TB in a mac pro next door and it seems to be fine there. The Imac is a new acquisition. I have only done a couple of tests so I’ll see what happens over the next couple of days.
thanks for your advice.
James

[James Vellacott]

Thanks for the reply, but the problem is not unrendering- i can apple z that… its for some reason the keyframing on the pic plays ok unrendered, but when it’s rendered for export , it won’t play properly (the keyframed ‘moving’ frames do not show up on the canvas). If that clip is exported to let’s say a Qt movie, the result is a sharp clear image at the start and end of the clip but the keyframed moving frames in between are faded and have faint lines through them. Also this problem appears to be erratic, I’ve imported the same photos onto the same sequence as a test and sometimes they work after render- sometimes they don’t. I’ve tried moving the render files off the capture scratch in the external drive to the main onboard drive and this doesn’t help either. I’m perplexed??
James