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I am seeing a lot of crashes with Compound Clips. I have a 2010 MacPro running the latest Sierra 10.12.6.
If I avoid using compound clips its pretty stable and when it does crash I don’t loose any work.
Not having Compound Clips is a huge bummer for me and I hope they fix it soon.Otherwise its great. I’ll never use the 360 features but I am loving the color correction. So great I can choose the default CC method … good riddance to the Color Board!
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Thats my plan. I was just hoping someone could shed a little light on why this might happen and how I can prevent it.
I’m coming back to FCP after 5 years of Premiere Pro. I’m getting the hang off FXPX but still a little skittish about it’s stability. I did a clean install of Sierra and FCPX and still had some crashes on import with my first project, and now this. OTOH Premiere wasn’t completely stable either so maybe I shouldn’t worry so much.
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Thanks, I tried it and it looks like it might have helped rescue the media from the card but since that is no longer available the only thing it did was show me the thumbnail of the missing media. More info than Premiere or FCP, but not what i needed.
As far as operating systems, P2CMS seems to work fine with Mavericks
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False Alarm.
As a friend of mine would say it was a “pre-keyboard error”.i.e. ME
“what changed” was I must have tried to close a window in the Finder but instead closed the Queue window in AME. Being somewhat inexperienced with AME (I use Compressor and before that Media Cleaner Pro) I didn’t notice that the Encoding window is not where you drag files. Apparently when I used the file menu to add source files it DID add the file to the Queue, but since that window was closed i couldn’t see it!
I am still not clear why deleting the preferences didn’t restore the stock window configuration … but lessoned learned. That mistake won’t happen again.
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“If that didn’t resolve the issue, ”
Unfortunately they didn’t
“… answer these questions and we’ll go from there:
1. Did anything change on the system between when it worked and when it did not? ”Nothing. Early in the day it worked. An hour later it didn’t. No crashes, nothing new installed
“2. When you say you tried to drag them in to AME, was that from Premiere Pro or Finder? ”
From the Finder
“3. Are you updated to the latest version of AME? ”
Yes. The latest for CS6 6.0.2.81
Thanks for your help
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For $20 you might as well make your own hood for the built -in viewfinder, because any kind of optics aren’t really going to help you focus at that price.
For shooting video I would recommend an electronic viewfinder (EVF), definitely not dirty cheap.
I have a SmallHD DP4 which I consider the best bang for the buck. Zacuto also makes good EVF’s
I’ve heard very good things about TV Logic’s EVF but never used one myself.Jeff Beaumont
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Every test I have seen, including tests on recent models like the D800 and 5D mkIII show that the internal audio is not even close to the quality of the cheapest Zoom or Tascam. This is sad but true. Low frequency roll off, unacceptable distortion levels low bit rate and lossey codecs.
It’s very telling that no DSLR manufacture publishes real specs on their audio. They don’t even admit which codec they use or how much They want it to remain a mystery.
If you care about sound quality then you need to shoot double system and record 48khz 24 bit.In camera audio on DSLR is “good enough” for some things, but not for everything.Jeff Beaumont
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thanks for the suggestions. I am not sure what it means to shoot it like an eclipse other than making sure to stop all the way down and add ND as needed… and don’t look directly at it myself.
Which is what I plan to do.
The shoot is this Friday and now the client says there will be no welding. For this Producer and this job that means there definitely WILL be welding. So far everything they told me in the original e-mail has turned out to be the opposite of what the client really wants 🙂Jeff Beaumont
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I haven’t seen the clip mentioned, but another thing to keep in mind is that optical stabilization can often work against you when trying to make a smooth pan. I don’t know if you had “VR” engaged, but it can actually cause a pan to “stick” in places, producing jerky pans, especially at the beginning of a pan.
HTH
Jeff Beaumont
(Another Nikon D800 shooter!)Jeff Beaumont
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I am seeing this a week later so it is probably too late, but
Typically stuff like this happens when someone manages to alter the MXF file structure. (Unless you are describing a Dual System workflow, in which case you can ignore the rest of this post)
I am not experienced with XDcam, but have used most of the other MXF formats (P2, AVCHD, Canon XF etc) .
Assuming XDcam works the same way … if the media you recorded on was transfered correctly, the audio and video should be synced when you open the folder in the Premiere Pro Media Browser.
If it’s not too late go back to the original media and backup and then ingest per Sony’s best practices and it should work.Jeff Beaumont