Jhaughey
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thanks for the advice fellas… I’ve tried and tested those methods as well, still no joy… but thanks anyway….
Under further investigation and chatting on the phone to aja, arri etc, we’re starting to think its a software thing within the deck…
When I find out I’ll post the reason..Joe Haughey
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even with its faults.. (and I get XML working with basic motion, distort and crop in the xml in pretty much every format there is in the HD and 2K version (most of the time :)) … I can’t understand why its going so badly for you Walter) its worth the pain over the three way colour corrector any day, the creative licence it opens up to us joe soap FCP editors/compositors/wannebe-colourists is astonishing. I’m loathe to return to the three way corrector in FCP because its a toy compaered to FT.
We’re using the thing every day simply because we get far better results with it….
If you factor in the necessary prep time (couple of hours per half hour episode par example), and we’ve done tons of broadcast stuff with it… you’ll be fine.
Here in London, if you’d see some of the bullshit that other facilities are going through with other similarly placed colouring applications you’d thank God for FT!
In essence its a bit of pain in the ass, but worth it. yet again this might all be moot as they’re more than likely going to reveal something big at NAB… who knows… its been a long day here and now its late……Joe Haughey
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unfortunately not i’m afraid… its a total pain in the ass I know… It only asks for scratch disks if the precious destination directory isn’t there anymore, ie. ext’ firewire drives….
Joe Haughey
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When we were setting up our grading suite we had the guys from Silicon Color come round to check it out…
they said it was great, but one problem, the paint should be “18% grey”, so I had to paint the whole thing 18% grey…. its the same colour as Shake and Final Touchs’ backgrounds… makes sense when you see it.
don’t forget a daylight lamp behind your monitorJoe Haughey
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Have you deleted your preferences? You should also delete all the render files associated with your project using the render manager (within tools) and re-render everything…. When weird stuff like this happens to me… nine times out ten these two actions put it all right again….
hope it works out.Joe Haughey
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Try turning off ‘mirror on desktop’ in the audio video settings… failing that dump the files in the render manager and re-render… might help….
Joe Haughey
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Cheers Jeremy,
I thought as much myself… We have a couple of jobs with freelance Shake operators and After effects guys who are a little unaware of how this stuff works with FCP… They seem to perceive 1024×576 as having higher defintion… (?)
I’m going through the whole having to prove it nonsense!all the best,
JoeJoe Haughey
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double click the 4/3 clip in your timeline, navigate to the distort tab, which is within the motion tab in your viewer.
make this +33.33%. your clip is will now become “pillarboxed” ie. black bars on the edge of your picture. this is the correct aspect ratio for 4/3 within a 16/9 project. you’ll need to zoom into your picture to get rid of the bars. Unfortunatley you will lose information top and bottom of your frame.hope that’s what you were after
Joe Haughey
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thanks Wayne,
I’ll give it a go…