[Jeff Coleman]

Do you have sufficient pre-roll? I think I spoke with BMD about this once and they suspected the preroll time may be insufficient. I didn’t quite understand or perhaps believe it and never tried changing it at the time. I think a feeling of dread came over me when I learned that my captures and layoffs wouldn’t be aborted if the timecode in was different than programmed. Seemed to me a fundamental problem. But I got from them that perhaps they were at the mercy of the deck/vtr in these cases. I dunno….

But out of curiosity, what if you made the preroll 5 seconds in FCP?

[Jeff Coleman]

Tapes are non drop frame.

[Jeff Coleman]

Please explain
[JeremyG] “It has to do with drop/non drop.”

I’m also starting to believe QT 7.1.3 may be the culprit, but I’m wondering if media manager has anything to do with it. If you create a new project and log a few clips into your browser, then batch capture them, does the timecode reset to zero?

I’ve been experimenting and I couldn’t get it to happen in that scenario. Did you by chance “make sequence clips independent” before you media managed?

I discovered I actually have two projects now that have been recaptured with no timecode and no reel numbers. The quicktime capture files themselves (viewed outside of FCP) have no tc and no reel numbers. Its not just a disconnect, but as if FCP never handed QT the info when it captured the clips or QT didn’t receive the info properly from FCP. But I’m guessing…

[Jeff Coleman]

I’ve had more than a few quality issues with the 10-bit codec. I don’t think we’ll ever know why it’s not working properly either. I’m glad you’ve found a useable workaround.

[Jeff Coleman]

What versions of QT, FCP, and Mac OS are you using?

[Jeff Coleman]

What versions of QT, FCP, and Mac OS are you using?

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO

[Jeff Coleman]

Is your end graphic a series of keys on top of full screen background clip? Or is the whole thing a photoshop sequence of layers (and that’s the way it looks in the imported sequence)?
Sequence settings are set to what for video processing? “Render in 8-bit YUV”, “Render in 10-bit material in high-precison YUV”, or “Render all YUV material in high-precision YUV”?
What happens if you change that setting (copy your sequence first and make the changes in your test copy) and re-render a portion of that end graphic? any differences?
What is your “Process Maximum White as” set for? If you change it what happens?
Again in a test copy of your sequence, what happens if you change your sequence compressor settings to “Uncompressed 8-bit”? Better? worse?

just guessing….

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO

[Jeff Coleman]

Ooooohhhh. I see what you mean. The DV is at least useable. The 10bit isn’t. It’s green ugly. Bad art. (if there is such a thing) I normally wouldn’t drop the DV sequence into a 10bit timeline.
Do newly built keys and graphics work in your 10bit sequence correctly?

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO

[Jeff Coleman]

same problem here. FCP 5.1.1, OS X.4.7, QT 7.1.3.
Digitized HDCam 1080, 29.97 at DV then rezzed up to 1080 10bit Uncompressed. The batch capture worked fine until it was done capturing the clips. When all (almost all, it didn’t ask for all the reels for some odd reason) the clips were recaptured, the reel numbers went blank and the timecode started at zero. Trashing prefs, restarting has no effect. I logged a clip and then batch captured that clip and it did the same thing. THIS IS USELESS!
What version of QT is everybody using?

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO

[Jeff Coleman]

What are Boris Red Transitions in Final Cut Pro and how to use and/or make them.

Love,
Jeff

Final Cut Studio 5.1, G5 2GHz Dual Processr, 2.5Gb RAM, AJA IO