Jimmy Spangler
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Does it look fine on your canvas monitor on your computer display? If it is fine on your computer display and only looks strange on your external monitor, then it is a display problem. If it is affecting both the computer and the external…hmmm…I will keep thinking of solutions…
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Check to make sure your Easy Setup matches your sequence and clip settings in your project. If you are outputting through firewire, you will probably be using DV NTSC as your easy setup
Final Cut Pro > Easy Setup (or ctrl – Q)
NTSC
29.97
DV-NTSCOr some variation of this. But usually strange outputs to external monitors are due to settings not being consistent throughout your project.
Sorry if you already tried all this.
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I have been having this same problem with Cinema Tools and Avid EDLS. I have been trying to convert some 30fps EDLs to 24fps for online and they are grayed out. FCP imports them, but Cinema Tools won’t. The files open in Text Edit fine and the only real difference from FCP EDLs is the top few lines, but all the events look fine. Anyone have a solution, or at least know what to look for to see a problem in Text Edit?
As of now I have been working around this by importing the EDLs as 30fps into FCP, then making new 30fps ELDs and then converting the new FCP 30fps EDls in Cinema Tools. Pain in the butt.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I have had issues with Motion Projects rendering as solid green clips in my timeline. This has happened with ProRes 422. I have not tested this with other Codecs.
It was driving me crazy though trying to fix it. Was never able to resolve it.
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That doesn’t sound normal. H.264 can take a very long time, but it shouldn’t take nearly that long.
I would suggest taking your QT file and applying equivalent settings through a QT Conversion through QT Pro. If it moves much quicker then you can eliminate the file as the problem and assume that it is Compressor. If it is still taking a long time then you can go through and try a different quicktime in Compressor and see if that works.
Also, try exporting (using your same method) a short version maybe 10 seconds and see how long that takes.
You can also try using a reference QT instead of a Self-Contained QT.
Let us know how it turns out.
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Batch Export works well for me as long as you aren’t going from 29.97 to 23.98 because in that case it won’t always remove the 3:2 Pulldown correctly.
Batch Export works well because it gives all the capture setting options to transcode with.
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Thanks for the reply. Certainly, I can move it up and add handles manually, but I was (foolishly, I know) assuming that FCP to Motion integration would be smart enough to take all the media necessary over to Motion to be modified. Does it think the dissolve or transition is there for no reason?
If you use a filter in FCP on a clip with a dissolve you can add keyframes all the way through the clip including the portions with transitions, so why should Motion treat this any differently? Final Cut Pro is really the system of the Workaround” nothing really ever works (at least as well) as advertised and you constantly have to figure out how to outsmart or out think FCP.
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Is Fotomagico a plugin or a standalone program? Ideally I would like to stay in the timeline so if there are changes, they could easily be made.
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Ramona, thanks for the response…I am a bit confused though. Is Rave a software application or something? Please, cure my ignorance on this issue, I am very interested.
I am looking to have the Kona or some application clamp my levels to legal limits on output so I don’t always have to use the broadcast safe filter and render.
Thanks so much.
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In each of these options how would you deal with the A-frame issue to properly remove the pulldown? With the way FCP has its temper tantrums I can’t imagine you can ever do this with ease. I am becoming more convinced that FCP is not a good tool for a busy post house with a tight schedule.