Josh Olenslager
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Alex,
I’ve seen every type of drive break down. Not sure what model of Lacie you’re using, but the rugged Lacie’s haven’t cause too much trouble for me, and you can get firewire with it, too. Their other drive models have broken down on me though so I feel you there. Other brands I’ve worked with that seem to hold up a bit better than some others are Seagate and Western Digital and you can find models with firewire —
Maybe somebody else will weigh in, but after three years of drive rotation/shipment, these are the ones that have held up more consistently for me.
Josh
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You can restrict the data rate in QT Pro exports under the settings feature. I’m with John that Compressor is the better way to go and gives a lot more control–and as he mentions h264 is probably the best codec for what you’re looking for. If you go to flash use f4v which has a bit higher data rate than regular flv and retains better quality. (I’ve found that Flash loads much more quickly than QT.) However if you decide on this route, you’ll have to change up your html code to recognize the flash. Not sure if you want to do that.
Best of luck Dean.
Josh
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Dean,
it doesn’t look like anything is wrong with your code. I’m running Safari 4.0.2 and everything comes up fine. Your movie, however, does look pretty large and takes a minute to load. That said, the internet connection speed has a lot to do with whether the quicktime will show up or not. If the connection is too slow, it will time out and the QT will appear as a ?-mark. I have the same thing happen with my own website, so the error isn’t uncommon. You mentioned that you tried on Firefox, didn’t work, then tried Safari and it did. When you went back to Firefox and it works, that’s not uncommon. The connection refreshed the browser page and managed to recognize the file without timing out. I wouldn’t worry about the way you’re code is working — it is. It’s the connection speed that matters. If it is a monster problem, you might find a way to decrease the file size so that spotty connections can access the file more easily.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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David,
I’m not sure what is contributing to the strange behavior you are seeing–the only thing I can think that might be affecting your sequence length is something to do with how FCE is communicating with your media and render folders once the project gets big. What kind of system are you running? FCE version? Your storage/hard disks aren’t pushing capacity are they?
One work around, depending on your final output, could be to simply export the two smaller (25 min.) sequences fully edited and then bring the two sequence exports back into FCE and stitch them together into the longer timeline. Of course that leads to a bit of generational loss, but depending on your final usage, this might work as a stop gap while you try to figure out the weird reactions happening for longer sequences.
If I think of anything else, I’ll post again.
Josh
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Right John. I forgot that most authoring programs have a 16:9 aspect setting; I haven’t mastered with those settings, so it slipped my mind. Thanks for the clarification!
Josh
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Patty,
I’m not too familiar with this deck, but if it is like others I’ve used, you’ll need to switch the deck to read the PAL tape. One way to test whether the signal reaching FCP is good is to use an external monitor and see if video is coming through. Sounds like a deck setting is causing your hang up.
Josh
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Andrew,
how are you burning to disk? Are you using an HD or Blu-Ray disk? Also, what are the settings on your QT export? If you are burning to an SD disk and want to maintain aspect ratio, you’ll have to export a letterbox version of your timeline. Depending on your disk build/burn program some exports are better. If you use the “export using QT conversion” option, you can select an SD frame size and then click the option to maintain aspect ratio. This will not come out as a full-frame on an HDTV, but will maintain the aspect ratio. If you provide a bit more information, troubleshooting the problem would be easier.
1. What type of disk are you burning to?
2. What are your export settings?
3. What burn program are you using?Josh
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Thanks Martti, my mistake.
Josh
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Hi Bob,
ts files are streaming files for disc playback. You should be able to open them with a program like VLC or MPEG Streamclip. You’ll probably need to then transcode them into a format that Final Cut can recognize and work with. Both the programs above are freeware and have transcode capability. Hopefully this will work out for you.
Good luck!
Josh
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Agreed, unless you’re moving media after you’ve captured it, FCP doesn’t have any problems tracing back to the capture folder. This doesn’t sound like a software error, but a simple matter of a two minute training for the temps / interns / etc. And there is a difference between being careful and being sloppy.
Josh
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