John Pale
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You do have a decompose-like feature…select your sequence then
Tools/Create Master Clips
a bin is created with master clips for every clip in the sequence. This is very similar to the decompose function in Avid.
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Duplicate your sequence. Delete all the audio clips from the duplicate. Media Manage that sequence.
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do you have a slash “/ ” in the file name? if so, remove it. UNIX uses that character to indicate a filepath.
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Will the Avid import an EDL created from itself? Just to determine whether the problem is with settings on the Avid EDL Manager.
EDLs have never been that great with FCP, but with simple sequences I have always gotten it to work.
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Read the chapter in the manual regarding Media Manager. This is one of its functions.
FCP 5 manual Volume 4 Page 77 begins the overview of the Media Manager. -
Make sure you only have one video track. Also make sure your reel names conform to the EDL standard….
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Export as Quicktime Movie. If iDVD is on the same machine, then UNCHECK “Make Self Contained”. This will make a Quicktime reference movie of your timeline…there will be no additional compression or degradation from what you see in FCP. The file will be fairly small…well under a GB for a 34 minute film…
Drag that file into iDVD. iDVD handles the MPEG2 compression. Thats it. Dont do any Quicktime conversions to other codecs, such as Sorenson…this will completely destroy your image quality.Most DVD players can handle DVD+R and DVD-R, but there are no guarantees. Different models have different capability. From what I have read, DVD-R is slightly more likely to be compatible.
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FWIW the delay seems to be worse on Avid MC Adrenaline. I think all of us will remember the good old days when an NLE would stop on a dime.
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Yeah, bogie, its totally unintuitive. It makes sense, if you really think about it….the render file is a composite of everything, like a flattened Photoshop file, but who would guess you would have to unrender stuff to export. Time to use the built in FCP feedback link again.
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Toggle off track visibility. Your render files will go offline. Your sequence is now unrendered…this will allow the alpha to be in the export. Export. Undo to restore your render files.