Jp Driscoll
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I appreciate the quick answers from everyone. That’s why I keep coming back to the Cow.
I guess we’ve been lucky with our flat fee quotes up until now. I haven’t really had a problem with clients like this before. In fact, most of the time we come in under or at the quote. But it’s better not to take the chance, I guess. Lesson learned.
BTW: What is a synced multicam window dub? Is it basically the footage from each camera synced and shown in smaller windows side by side? Is there an advantage to doing that instead of just reviewing all the video seperately? Or is it just a time factor? Better to view all the cameras at once instead of one camera three time?
Thanks again, guys and gals!
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I’ve found that some DVD players won’t read discs burned in DVD SP. If you make a disc image and burn that to disc using Finder, it seems to work in more players.
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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I honestly have not had many problems with compressor. The one time I can recall having issues was easily fixed. I was exporting a sequence from FCP into compressor. Then I saved the batch file so I could let it run overnight. When I opened the batch and tried to run it, it gave me some error. I don’t remember for sure, but I think it was the same one you got. To fix it, I just opened up FCP before submitting the batch. Apparently it needed FCP to compress the sequence. I don’t know if this helps, but it is worth a try.
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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If you don’t need to use the seperate layers in FCP, try saving as a png file. It’ll flatten the image, but it will leave the alpha info intact.
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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Did they say when? Curious to know if it will be out before the Firestore.
Thanks,
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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I would try opening the GIF in Adobe Imageready. Then you can take each cell of the animation and save that as a png with alpha channel in sequential order. Then I believe you can import the sequential image files in FCP and you’ll have the alpha channels. I’ve never tried this myself, but it’s worth a shot.
Good luck!
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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That is how it’s applied in this case. I guess that’s one thing I haven’t tried yet. I’ll see if that helps.
Thanks!
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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We had a demo in here a while back and after using it a little I have to say I am a little dissapointed with how FCP works with P2. You can import using something in the file menu. I think it’s Import P2. The downside is that FCP cannot see any of the meta data associated with the media. So if you’ve flagged a shot as being especially good or included a voice memo, you can’t access it in FCP. However, I believe there is a program out there that lets you see all that seperately.
So “support” is such a loose term. Hopefully, there will be improvements in the next installment of FCP.
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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I had the same problem.
AJA has updated drivers for the IO. I believe it is for 10.3.9 or 10.4.x with an XServe RAID. I don’t know if you have an XServe RAID or not, but that was the same error message I had and this fixed it.Hope it helped!
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson
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Double check the scratch disk and render file locations. If they are on the wrong drive it can grind FCP down to a halt. Recently had that problem with someone changing settings on me.
JP Driscoll
WDAY TV
Fargo, ND“Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.” ~Homer Simpson