[Keith Roberts]

Yeah, dragging and dropping seems to always freak it out. But even with copy and paste sometimes it would get hung up.

However, yesterday I copy and pasted just the essential bins to a new projects and everything copied pretty quickly and without crashing. I still have to open the old project sometimes to access some of the raw footage and music, which is a bit of an inconvenience, but I can live with it for the added stability of this new project. And even my exports of the sequences are taking less than half the time. Seems odd, but I’ll take it.

Thanks, Steve.
Keith

[Keith Roberts]

Thanks for the responses, guys. So Shane, your project files don’t go over 40MB because you break them up into several projects? That makes sense. I’m just tired of trying to find work-arounds when using Final Cut.

Steve, I had been working on the same project for months so I thought some buffers or something might be building up and a fresh project would be the way to go. But when I tried copying a bin full of sequences from one project to a new project, Final Cut just hung up. It worked if I copied one sequence at a time, but even then it seemed to take a long time. I’ve noticed Final Cut has always been a bit sluggish when copying from one project to another. It might be worth taking the time to do that though to save time in the long run.

Thanks again,
Keith

[Keith Roberts]

I do have a lot of footage for this series, so the footage bins contain lots of bins and clips. I also have a lot of music in the project, but again, sequences are fairly simple. I’ve definitely had longer, more layered sequences in the past (so I’m assuming just as large of project sizes). I did last season’s online with a project that was over 100MB without quite as many problems, so I’m not sure what’s causing the problems currently.

Does Final Cut have known issues with projects over 100MB? I guess I could try deleting the music library out of this project, and maybe some of the raw footage bins. It’s a bit of an inconvenience to not have all that stuff readily available, but I’ll take for the added stability.

By general instability, I mean not just crashing, but the other quirks Final Cut has had since version 1 that make it a little unreliable at times.

Thanks for the help,
Keith

[Keith Roberts]

Thanks for the responses. Everything looks great now. I tried many different settings and wasn’t very good about trying one thing at a time, so I’m not sure what did it, but in the end, I set the sequence to match the HDV footage (which making it prores and dropping in an HDV clip accomplished. And I could set the field dominance to upper or none and both settings look fine on both formats of footage).

And my video playback settings are Blackmagic HDTV 1080i 29.97 – 8 Bit (1920 x 1080).

The DVCPRO footage plays in real-time for editing … I’ll just render before output.

Thanks again,
Keith

[Keith Roberts]

Not that anyone will be reading this, but the next day when I tried to print to video, the output worked just fine. I guess I’ll add this to the growing list of FCP inconsistencies. I really miss working on an Avid.

Love the Decklink card though.

keith

[Keith Roberts]

Sam,

Just import a full frame of whatever color you want the vignette to be and lay it on the layer above whatever video needs the vignette. Apply the AniMatte effect to the full color graphic and you can draw a shape, swap sources, crank up the feathering, and adjust it any way you want.

Hope this helps,
Keith