Jeff Coleman
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Good question Tom.
I can’t answer that directly, but I was wondering if you might have a Decklink or AJA Kona card that you could use to key your bug with their built-in keyer as you’re playing out to tape. Then you’d only have to render the lower thirds. Maybe then it would only take a minute or two to render?
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Wonderful! Way to persevere!
Thanks for letting us know. I appreciate it.Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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[Fred Grossberg] “As for Plug-Ins, I don’t even have a Final Cut System Support folder in Library/Application Support.”
Make sure you’re looking in your hard drive Library folder, not your user Library folder. It’s there.
Same goes for the HD/Library/Quicktime folder. You may want to investigate that again.Preferences still corrupted, eh? Strange.
Have you tried reinstalling FCP/Studio since this started happening?Last, but certainly not least, don’t forget about the good folks at AJA.
Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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You’ve gone farther than I have.
The Media Mangler is broken. You shouldn’t have to do anything but grab a cup of coffee and let it do it’s work. My experience has been even when it says it works–no errors–it doesn’t work. I’ve given up on trying to consolidate with FCP’s Media Manager. It’s pathetic. I use the Larry Jordan method.
So, if you’ve found some way that works at all, keep doing it! Just make sure when it’s done consolidating, that you can actually open up that consolidated project and everything is there in working order.Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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I haven’t noticed.
What filters exactly seem to be causing this problem?
Have you tried changing your Sequence Settings/Video Processing tab to see if the problem changes?Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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Do I have this right?
“Kona 3…[c]apture seems to work… But…I play the clip [in Final Cut Viewer], the clip is black. I can see t.c. and audio but no video… the…file plays fine in Quicktime and if I drag it to the FCP browser window, it also plays fine….the Reconnect Media trick … didn’t work: I got an error message saying the clip didn’t have the proper content.”Just a couple of questions?
What happens when you edit the clip into the timeline? Is it still black? If it is, select the clip in the timeline and make sure under the “Modify” menu that the “Alpha Type” is set to “None/Ignore”
When trying to playback that clip in the viewer, under the “View” menu, try changing the channels to something else (like Red) and see if anything appears on the screen.
For that clip, what is displayed in the Browser column under “Alpha”?Long shot #1: I’m just wondering if FCP can’t see any alpha information in what it thinks is a matte clip with an embedded alpha. So when you try to connect media it won’t because it sees the clip on the drive without an alpha and is looking for a clip with an alpha. Yet it will allow you to drag it into the FCP browser because it is indeed a simple clip with alpha of “None/Ignore”.
Long shot #2: I had a similar issue with the AJA IO when I would scale a clip in the motion tab. As soon as I scaled the clip it turned black. AJA suspected a 3rd party plug in.
To test if this problem could be caused by a 3rd party plug-in:
Quit FCP and open your Mac HD drive click on Library/Application Support/Final Cut System Support/Plug-ins.
Look in the plug-in folder for any 3rd party plug-ins and pull them out to the Mac desktop. Start up FCP and see if the problem goes away. If so, quit FCP and add back in those plug-ins one at a time (quitting and restarting FCP each time) until you figure out which plug-in is the culprit.In my case, it turned out I had an old Black Magic Codec installed along with the AJA codecs. The problem went away after I removed “Blackmagic Software Codec.component” from the HD/Library/Quicktime folder. You can look in this folder for any 3rd party component files and drag them to the desktop and perform the same troubleshooting routine as you did with the plug-ins folder above.
I don’t have a Kona 3, but the first thing I’d try is calling AJA tech support. They’re great! Next might be to reinstall the Kona 3 driver or go through the above plug-ins and component files troubleshooting routine.
Let us know what you found out.
Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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Ahhhh. Yes. Says it right there on my keycap.
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Apple will announce something new at NAB this year. I’d bet on it.
But it will disappoint.
Apple will flash new features and compatibility before our very eyes, including fixing the broken transition plugs, and adding the new SuperFX that gives 12 layers of effects in “realtime”. And they’ll keep you hopping for the next three or six months with their 2007 Advanced Software Tail Chasing with Leopard, FCP 5.2.4, QT 7.2.6 and DVD SP 4.3.3, and
Won’t have fixed the Media Manager or the Log and Capture process, nor the anomalies in their uncompressed 10bit QT format, or edge spike clamps in their safe filters or anything real fundamental to video. Two layers with the filters or transitions YOU want to use will send the DV timeline to a screeching halt, making you wish you had an Adrenaline.
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Just recently you noticed sync issues? What were the last known combination of software versions that didn’t display this problem with long timelines?
What version of QT are you running?Love,
JeffFinal Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO
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I haven’t had any success using Boris’ Optical Flow for much of anything actually. Perhaps I just don’t understand it or it’s limitations. I use RE: Vision Effecs ReelSmart FieldsKit inside AE to do just what you mentioned. That and Twixtor make for a pretty (albeit slow) workflow from 60i to 24p.
See:
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/solorio_marco/twixtor_review/index.html