Jeffrey Di lullo
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My bad, I didn’t read your post correctly. I thought that you were transcoding your clips to Pro-Res, which could cause the behavior that I was describing. Walter is correct.
I am glad that you are getting you issue resolved. Have a great day!
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Elijah,
you said:
“now have 8 total sequences open and it is pretty fast, like it used to be. However, ever since swicthing my render compressor from HDV to ProRes I am getting bright green bars above my timeline. Now I undertstand that this is supposed to be real time rendering but when I play it it is fuzzy and the transitions are as Blocky as a NES. ”
It sounds like your sequence settings don’t match your clip settings. FCP is processing your clip on the fly to match your sequence. With your sequence open and no clips selected type command+0. This will open up your sequence settings. Once you have checked what they are, close the sequence settings window. Now select one of your clips that has the green render bar over it and type in command+9. This will open up your clip settings window. Does your clip match the sequences setting exactly? I will guess that they don’t.
One way to fix this is to reopen your sequence settings and adjust then so that the match your clips. If you had to adjust your pixel aspect or fame size you will have to remove the automatic Distort and Scale adjustments that FCP made when you edited these clips into the sequence. You can do this by selecting all your clips, then right clicking and selecting “remove attributes” from the context menu. Then select “motion” and “Distort” from the menu that pops up and click ok. This should get rid of your render bar (assuming that you don’t have any filters or speed fx on the clips).
Also before you do this go ahead and make a safety copy of your sequence in case you mess things up. 🙂
Have a great day,
Jeffrey Di Lullo
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James,
Based on looking at your sequence I’d suggest trying out FCPtoAE by Popcorn Island. https://www.popcornisland.com/downloads
It is a FREE script for AE that allows you to import an XML of your sequence in FCP into a comp in AE. I have found that it work very well with sequences as simple as yours.
Good luck,
Jeffrey Di Lullo
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This link should help you with the BITC issue:
https://www.avid.com/video/video_window.asp?videoID=242
Have a great day!
Jeffrey Di Lullo
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Hello,
we do a similar workflow with good success. We create Graduate School classes on DVD. On a 3 credit class we can generate over 20 hrs. of video. In 2 years of capturing direct to FCP via capture now we have never had a glitch (cross fingers).
Here is our workflow:
We send the program-out of our switcher to a DA. From the DA, one ouput goes to our AJ-d250 dvcpro deck and the other goes to our AJA io La which is connected to an OLD (1st gen Ti power book) powerbook running FCP. We are using the built in FW port on the mac (very important,) to connect to the io. Then we use the PCMCIA slot to connect to a Firmtek eSATA raid 0 drive array. Make sure that all your computer related components are attached to a good UPC, this includes the computer, raid and io. Audio is route via a mixer to both the deck and the aja io. You can set up the aja io La to capture to whatever codec you need, we use DV25 since the dvcpro deck is dv25 (we want everything to match in case we had to go to the tape for some reason) and because of file size.
The only catch to this process is you can’t slave the TC on the VTR with aja io LA so we use a slate or a cut at the beginning of the class as a sync mark. When we get back to the studio, we find the sync point on the tape and the clip in FCP and then use the modify timecode command in FCP to sync each clip file with the tape. This process does take some time, but can be done by an intern or post production assistant (wink, wink). We use the tape as a backup only and edit from the FCP originated clips.
Good luck,
Jeffrey Di Lullo
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Tobias,
I am not a red user, but I did come across these two white papers:
and this one:
These papers discuss how FCP handles 10-bit material and may point you in the right direction. The basic gist of the second paper is that very few FCP effects are 10-bit enabled and FCP never tells you when it takes 10-bit material down to 8-bit on effect that are not capable of 10-bit rendering.
Hope this helps.
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Shane,
I don’t mean to be a wet blanket, but FCP 6.0.1 does output 2:3:2:3 via firewire to an NTSC dv device. I have not been able to get fcp to spit out advanced pull-down
You do this by
1)setting up a 23.98 sequence
2) check the RT pop up window to 2:3:2:3
3) check the System preference’s playback tab. There is a drop down for pull down
4) Print to tape.You can check this by make , 1 frame long, titles A, B, C, D repeating. when it prints to tape you will find that you will have a 2:3:2:3 pull down.
The fcp pdf manual covers this on page 1415 and elsewhere.
As for making a down conversion from HD to SD you really want to use a kona card. It does a MUCH better conversion than fcp does internally. You could also use Compressor to make the HD to SD down convert.
Good luck,
Jeffrey Di Lullo
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Bill,
You can use your deck, but you need to get a converter.
https://www.aja.com/html/support_faq_main.php?q=rs232&productid=&button=Search&b_productid=-1
check out this company:
https://www.addenda-elect.com/rs2324.htm
I hope this helps,
jd
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Jon,
Any word yet?
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Scott,
Yes it does. But you will have to play with the playback offset parameter in the digital desktop playback settings pref. Check out my post on the Avid editing basics forum to read more about my experience with this. It can be frustrating at times.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/207/1287
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