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Jon Chappell
January 9, 2012 at 5:32 pm in reply to: FPC7 project takes an hour to open

FCP is designed to work with QuickTime media encoded with an I-frame codec such as ProRes, Apple Intermediate, Uncompressed, DV, etc. It does not work well with Long GOP media, even if you use a QuickTime importer to rewrap it on-the-fly.

You are trying to use FCP in a way that it was not designed for and you will run into problems. I would recommend transcoding your media to ProRes or editing the MTS files in an application like Adobe Premiere that is designed to work with native media.

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Jon Chappell
January 9, 2012 at 3:46 am in reply to: FPC7 project takes an hour to open

How long does it take to load when the drive is disconnected and all of the media is offline?

I’ve seen this before with dodgy media files. These are media files that are not necessarily corrupt but there’s something weird about them that FCP doesn’t like. I once encountered a project that would take ages to load and it eventually turned out that the AE had created a self-contained movie in QT Player from a reference clip and for some reason that was slowing FCP even though QuickTime Player played it just fine. So once the project loads, it may be worthwhile to look through the browser columns to spot clips that don’t quite match the others.

Also, presumably you have converted the MTS files to ProRes?

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Jon Chappell
January 2, 2012 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Debug event, PPro won’t open

I fixed the project file but I’m very confused by the parts that were causing the errors.

I was expecting the parameters causing the errors to be immediately obvious upon first glance. This wasn’t the case. I managed to narrow them down by trial and error and they seem to be completely random.

The curious part is that the values didn’t appear to matter – I changed them to 0 and it still wouldn’t import. The only way to get the project to import is to comment out that parameter and all others following it.

Here’s a few of the problematic lines (corrupt parameters commented out):

Line 45807 (inside a Scale filter): <Keyframes>0,107,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666,-0,55555555555555558,0,16666666666666666;3200601600000,100,,0,0,-0;</Keyframes>

Line 45865 (inside a Rotation filter):
<Keyframes>3200601600000,0,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 46362 (inside a Speed filter):
<Keyframes>0,0,000000000000000000000000,6,0,0,000000000000000000000000,0,000000000000000000000000,0,000000000000000000000000,0,000000000000000000000000;10160640000,0,010000000000000009000000,7,0;</Keyframes>

Line 49258 (inside an Opacity filter):
<Keyframes>3586705920000,100,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 49338 (inside a Position filter):
<Keyframes>3535902720000,0,500000000000000000000000:0,500000000000000000000000,0,0,0,000000000000000000000000,0,166666666666666660000000,0,845679012127221190000000,0,166666666666666660000000,5,4,0,000000000000000000000000,0,000000000000000000000000,-0,000000000000000015534871,-0,084567901212722063000000;3688312320000,0,500000000000000000000000:-0,007407407276332378400000,0,0,0;</Keyframes>

Line 49361 (inside a Scale filter):
<Keyframes>3535902720000,100,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 49582 (inside an Opacity filter):
<Keyframes>4643412480000,100,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 49738 (inside an Opacity filter):
<Keyframes>985582080000,0,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 49892 (inside an Opacity filter):
<Keyframes>2570641920000,100,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666;</Keyframes>

Line 50048 (inside an Opacity filter):
<Keyframes>1818754560000,0,,0,0,0,,0,16666666666666666,;</Keyframes>

The curious part is that that actual value doesn’t appear to matter. I can change it to 0 and it still fails to import.

I’m posting this here in the hopes that someone else, an Adobe developer perhaps, can shed some light on them.

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Jon Chappell
January 2, 2012 at 9:53 pm in reply to: Debug event, PPro won’t open

I fixed the project file but I’m very confused by the parts that were causing the errors.

I was expecting the parameters causing the errors to be immediately obvious upon first glance. This wasn’t the case. I managed to narrow them down by trial and error and they seem to be completely random.

The curious part is that the values didn’t appear to matter – I changed them to 0 and it still wouldn’t import. The only way to get the project to import is to comment out that parameter and all others following it.

Here’s a few of the problematic lines (corrupt parameters commented out):

Line 45807 (inside a Scale filter):
Line 45865 (inside a Rotation filter): Line 46362 (inside a Speed filter): Line 49258 (inside an Opacity filter): Line 49338 (inside a Position filter): Line 49361 (inside a Scale filter): Line 49582 (inside an Opacity filter): Line 49738 (inside an Opacity filter): Line 49892 (inside an Opacity filter): Line 50048 (inside an Opacity filter): The curious part is that that actual value doesn't appear to matter. I can change it to 0 and it still fails to import. I'm posting this here in the hopes that someone else, an Adobe developer perhaps, can shed some light on them. My software: Pro Maintenance Tools - Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise Pro Media Tools - Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more More tools...



						


    

        
			        


        
            Jon Chappell

			            January 1, 2012 at 5:13 pm

			
                
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		I can receive 16 MB files if your email provider is capable of sending them. Also, because XML is not very efficient in terms of storage space, it’s likely that it will be significantly smaller once zipped up.
You can contact me here:

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/contact.html
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            Jon Chappell

			            December 31, 2011 at 7:07 pm

			
                
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		I can send you FTP information if you like. How big is it exactly?
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Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise

Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more

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            Jon Chappell

			            December 30, 2011 at 5:37 pm

			
                
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		Is the project small enough to send by email? If so, you have my address. Remember to zip it before sending.
My software:

Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise

Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more

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            Jon Chappell

			            December 29, 2011 at 5:42 pm

			
                
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		I’d be happy to look at the file too.
My software:

Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise

Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more

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            Jon Chappell

			            December 29, 2011 at 4:15 am

			
                
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		Project Repair is for repairing Premiere projects; CS Repair is for dealing with permissions and other miscellaneous issues that can cause Premiere Pro crashes.
My software:

Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise

Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more

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            Jon Chappell

			            November 25, 2011 at 2:33 am

			
                
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		Automator has a Scale Images task. Photoshop has a batch processing function too but I’ve never used it so I’m not sure if image scaling is included in batch mode.
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