[Josh Smith]

I just upgraded to FCP 7 on a new system and got this same message. It turns out my problem was that one of my pictures was 8000 x 4000 at 600dpi. I reduced the image to 72 dpi and reduced the size to 4000 x 2000 (for motion effects) and it rendered fine.

In order to troubleshoot it, it had to render each picture one at a time to find out which one was causing the problem. Then I just revealed it in finder and changed it in photoshop.

In case this helps anyone.

Josh Smith
Bryan, TX

[Josh Smith]

Thanks Chris…I’ll check it out. Much appreciated!

Josh Smith
Bryan, TX

[Josh Smith]

UPDATE: I figured out one way…i took them all into Adobe Media Encoder and made .tif files out of them, then i took all into Photoshop and sized accordingly with an action and saved as .jpeg files. Pretty clunkly but it got the job done. I’d still love to know if there’s a program or procedure out there that anyone knows about to automate this process.

thanks !

Josh Smith
Bryan, TX

[Josh Smith]

Thanks Walter…I hope I’m not wearing your patience thin….I’ve looked everywhere and cant find it in iLINK.

I called Sony and they told me that letterbox downconvert is only avaialable from the Analog outputs of this deck…can this be?

If you have a solution for me, I’d love to hear it. Otherwise, I may have bought a $2000 boat anchor.

[Josh Smith]

Thanks Walter…I appreciate you checking on this…I’ve looked in teh ILINK controls and don’t see letterbox. I’ve got an HVR-M15U…Maybe that’s only an option in the m15N…let me know if you see it some place I’m missing.

Thanks Again.

[Josh Smith]

I hate to see you forced to do that…i would be curious if that worked, because it sounds like software not hardware and that would mean either a setting issue or trashing prefs…

Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful…GL.

[Josh Smith]

Mine only seems to have the option to squeeze or cut it off..can’t find the letterbox option

[Josh Smith]

This has happened to me before…trash your fcp preferences and restart the program…hope that helps.

On another note…have you figured how to caputre HDV downconverted to DV in a letterbox format from that deck?

[Josh Smith]

I’ve had trouble with AE animations in HDV sequences for FCP. You might try the following:

-Open your Credits quicktime movie in quicktime.
-Export it to a different file with the same settings
-Reimport it into FCP

There’s some problem with AE HDV exports…but this might solve your problem.

GL

Josh Smith
Bryan, TX

[Josh Smith]

EUREKA!!!! Thanks for the reply Jim…I had to keep searching today and I found a workaround. It seems that AE7 HDV renders have this problem commonly with FCP. You can (a) use the animation codec [not really an option for me because of the length of material] or (b) export the file in Quicktime with a different name.

I tested this on a short clip today and it works beautifully. It Still takes forever to re-export the files, but at least all my work is not lost. I’m kind of hoping that AECS3 takes care of this, otherwise, I may have to stay in AE6 longer than I wanted.

Thanks again to those whe responded.

Josh Smith
Bryan, TX