[John Pale]

Repair Permissions using Disk Utility before doing anything else.

[John Pale]

[jayarthur] “I also meant to say that there are overlapping sound elements almost everywhere. That will make finding a cut point tough. “

If you can’t make it work that way, you can also export several tracks at a time instead of breaking up into sections….HOWEVER…several audio guys here have stated that they dont like dealing with it that way. Consult with your audio mixer and find out what he is more comfortable with.

[John Pale]

don’t know if it helps you , but you can set FCP not to display through edits in your preferences.

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[Shane Ross] ” But yeah, JOhn is right that it might be some render file or filter or something causing this whole thing to export wrong.
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I am actually not saying that. I think its Quicktime flags/metadata. Referencing the render file instead of the original media fixes it.

[alexander serpico] “Just curious, but did the media you had problems with get imported via P2 Import or loaded off tape?”

Some clips were After Effects renders, some were off tape. No P2.

[John Pale]

[alexander serpico] “Has anyone ever seen this problem? “

There have been some threads about this issue recently and we could not agree on what was causing it or how to remedy it.

Here is what worked to solve it for me.

I found by exporting only sections of the timeline that it was only certain clips that were causing the whole timeline to be exported at the larger frame size. When I checked the clip info, there was nothing odd about them, strangely enough. Once I applied and rendered a broadcast safe filter (or any filter), FCP would then reference the render file instead of the original media. The export would then work correctly, at 1280 x 1080. I could only guess that there are hidden flags or metadata that are corrupt in some what and that is what is causing the export at the wrong frame size.

If you don’t have the patience to figure out which clips are causing the problem, you can also export using Quicktime Conversion and the regular NON KONA DVCPRO HD preset. Exports seem to work correctly using this, but I think it recompresses all frames…as the export takes longer. I did a side by side comparison of the resulting files and could not see any difference, but that may just be because of the nature of the footage…not a very scientific analysis.

[John Pale]

The Timewarp effect controls come up in the Motion Effect editor, not the regular Effect Editor.

Sometimes the Motion Effect Editor pops up behind other windows….look around, it may have popped up somewhere but is hidden.

[John Pale]

You are overthinking this.

Computer DVD players, like the MacOSX DVD Player App automatically correct for the pixel aspect ratio difference and display everything properly.

If it looks right on a TV it will look right when played in the DVD Player app.

This may not be true if you intend to view the MPEG files on the desktop w/o using the DVD Player app.

[John Pale]

I dont have a J30 in front of me. Just scroll through the menu with the character display on. The audio settings are in there.

[John Pale]

Sounds like a cabling problem.

Try swapping the left and right cables. Does the problem follow the cable? Then its the cable.
If the problem does not follow the cable, then it may be the connector on the Kona Breakout.
Can you try another device on that connector and see if the problem persists? Can you try other cables?

There are output level settings on the J-series decks in the menu….its unlikely anyone set it this way on purpose and its tough to do accidentally…but its worth checking.

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[Michael Alberts] “Back in my Avid days it was quite simple. There was basically one window in which you would do all your audio output mapping. It was considerably more straight forward, and was contained in one simple to understand window and this was back in Avid v6.5 days. “

I agree, the Avid interface for this is simpler…but in FCP, unlike Avid, you can have multiple sequences open at the same time. The audio mapping is tied to the Sequence settings for this reason….you can have different channel mappings for each open sequence, if you so desire.