[Jim Watt]

Mike,

Obviously there is a lot of passion out there about all sorts of issues, but at this moment I’m reformatting my Dual Quad core Mac Pro, because of exactly the issue of instability in FCP Studio 2.

I’ve been using FCP since 2000 editing HD, beginning with the first Cinewave boards that were delivered and have not run into this sort of instability since those early days of FCP 2.

I too have spent hours on the phone with AJA and Apple trying to solve the various issues I’ve run into. The last apple solution was to create a new user and see of that helped an issue I was having in Motion.

It actually solved my Motion problem and for the first time I was actually sble to see the automatic guides. However it also caused Compressor to crash everytime I opened it and now I get File IO errors when I try to render my FCP timeline, plus on my last launch of the project I’m workign on now, all my renders have dissappeared, plus analysis of retiming files and smoothcam files are gone.

It will be interesting to see if the reformat helps. By the time I reinstall everything I may have an answer tomorrow.

I do agree rather than swapping insults or putting those of us down that are asking for some help or opinion it would be a lot more productive if those who are, or consider themselves experts, thow a bone or two to those of us that may be having a problem. I’m no expert, but I have released over 70 hours of HD television programming since 2000, so I do have a little experience with the program.

Thanks for eloquently presenting what many of us feel.

It’s also a shame that in this particular string that someone jumps into it with a problem that should have been addressed in a sperate post, which distracts the entire thread from your original post.

thx….jw

[Jim Watt]

You have the option in sequence settings/timeline options to set your sequence to drop or non drop, regardless of your tape format.

jw

[Jim Watt]

Our work around for this problem which happens frequently is to output the sequence to a QT movie, then it’s indestructable.

We’ve also had many instances of all our other motion renders being destroyed when we open a motion file with the “open in editor” command from the timeline.

jw

[Jim Watt]

If your client is “hell bent” on immediate gratification, why not hire an SD satelite truck & have them burn in the TC in an SD down conversion & make a deal with a local tv station to take it in.

jw

[Jim Watt]

So I’m not sure what is your problem, unless you don’t have your timeline set so you can see the multiclip without rendering. If that’s the case go to the RT pulldown on the upper left of your timeline and set it to Unlimited RT playback, dynamic playback video quality and multiclip playback. You’ll then see your multiclips as you playback,

Re collapse & uncollapse you can do that as often as you want.

jw

[Jim Watt]

Once you go to the top menu/modify/collapse multiclips” the render won’t be necessary. You only see the green line or whatever color you have, when the multiclips are uncollapsed.

jw

[Jim Watt]

I had done that a couple of times, but I finally “bit the bullet” & dumped all my render files.

Neither allowed me to edit my original timeline to tape, however I just selected each section made a new sequence, nested it and went that way.

Thanks for all the help…jw

[Jim Watt]

I name all my sequences when I begin a project, and this is the original sequence in which I began the edit.

Since this is a 2 hour program, I’d rather not have to trash my renders & re-render the timeline if possible.

thx..jw

[Jim Watt]

Walter,

Thanks for the note, however that was the first thing i checked. For this particular project we’re doing everything in DVCPROHD, 1080i/29.97 fps. Original sequence is setup that way and so too is my edit to tape setting.

Another interesting phenomenen happened as I was laying each part of the original sequence to the new timeline from which I’m laying to tape, several of my transitions corrupted, so that they appear to flash back to the previous scene as it dissolves to the second. In the original sequence the transition is fine in the nested one is where I have the problem.

This is the second time I’ve seen this happen.

thx…jw

[Jim Watt]

Look at your waveform monitor, that should answer your question. The Motion 3, time remapping works great for slow motion.

jw