Kevin Hamm
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[Ryan Walker] “But when I bring it into FCP to make the same quicktime, again, it loses a lot of quality compared to when it comes from AE”
I’m not an AE guy at all, but this is the part that looks wrong to me. When you are exporting the quicktime, what are the settings you are using to create it? Are you just exporting a QuickTime movie? Are you making it self-contained? Or are you using Quicktime Conversion or Compressor and using some codec there? Or, when exporting the Quicktime movie from FCP, do you have “most recent settings” chosen and someone used your system to export a 720×480 clip using, say, the compression settings for a web clip?
So, basically, can you expand upon your Quicktime Movie Creation steps from FCP?
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Hell, I’m glad that worked for you! Just to make sure you know, the colors in the tool bar tell you what sort of viewing experience you *should* get, based on the profile that FCP builds to describe your machine. It’s sometimes wrong, so if you’re ever in a rush and need to make sure that you hit a deadline, turn off the real time effects. I know this seems counter intuitive, but each time you render something out fully, you’ll have it done and know right where you are. If you leave the RT effects on, you’ll tend to not render bits that will need it before it’s laid out to tape, and you’ll end up rendering them all at once at the end – and heaven only knows how long it’s going to take versus how much time you really have.
I do a coaches show for the local college every sunday, and that was one of the first changes I made when my boss let me take the lead. It’s saved me immense issues when something else has gone because I know exactly where I am in finishing the production when everything that can be rendered already is. YMMV, but there’s my 2
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I’m interested to learn what format/codec everyone on this post is using. And what can your Master Controls ingest easily?
Next weekend our local sports reported is going to the NAIA Championship game following the Carroll College Fighting Saints, and we want to send him with a powerbook for editing. I was planning on getting the files as H.264, but perhaps you guys have a better idea. I will need to download the clips and lay them out to MiniDV tape, since, well, it’s still 1993 here in Montana. Any suggestions are most appreciated. And sorry, I didn’t mean to divert the conversation, either, so here’s my 2
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Well, I’m currently typing this post and importing video using capture now on the same machine, and it’s working just fine so far… but I did try something to see what would happen, and it might be of interest to you:
I disconnected a network drive by turning it off – this caused the finder to alert me that a device had been removed and even tho that device had absolutely nothing to do with the importing of the footage, because it was attached to the same bus as the deck (firewire bus) it caused the import to fail, hard.
I don’t have any drives on USB, which is a separate bus but a similar protocol, but I wonder if having someone remove a USB jumpdrive during an import without ejecting it might be causing your problem. Is that a possibility?
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I use capture now all the time and don’t have any issues with it. I’m going to be using it later today as I do a show for this evening, and I will let you know if anything goes awry.
Just to ask, tho, do you have any funky settings such as unchecking the default “Abort capture on dropped frames” or anything? Since you’re using a Sony deck, is there any chance you’re using a Panasonic or Canon camera with the tape recording speed set to LP or whatever they name it? I mean the setting that changes a tape from 60 minutes to 90 minutes. I know that my Panasonic deck won’t read tapes from a Canon using that setting – which I found out when my sister borrowed the camera and taped her daughter’s concert. Had to use the cam to import that footage…
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Yeah, upgrade your OS to 10.4.10 at least. Also, if you’re trashing stuff, make sure you remove the application support files as they sometimes keep interesting bits on programs that you don’t see.
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I know this might seem odd, but it’s a legit question – have you rendered the timeline? I’m just wondering if the system you’re on has, for whatever reason, decided to think that a 1600% increase is a real-time effect and it’s dropping because it’s not.
I’m going to presume that you rolled your eyes and thought “of course I’ve rendered it” and then ask if you’ve tried my General Rule of Control-‘M’ing
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I figured out how to make it happen again. And to go away.
To create the problem – have snapping OFF in final cut, switch to the finder, drag a useable file to the timeline and it will try to snap (always has, bit annoying, but whatever) and do what I’ve always tried to do, which is disengage the snapping by pressing the N key. Doesn’t disengage it, but now you’ll have snapping engaged on any drag event.
To stop this from occurring, shut down the computer and restart. That’s the only fix. Can someone else verify that they can recreate the bug this way? We can submit it to Apple then.
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James,
I haven’t run across this issue, but if you want to, send me the motion project and I’ll load it up on my macbook, which is running Leopard, and we can see if that covers it. Kev at hammonwry dot com is my email.
kev~!
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This happened to me last sunday while editing a tv show for that night. Beyond frustrating. Even weirder, it went away Monday. I have no idea why, but I suspect it’s hiding out and shall return for another afternoon of random ‘fun’ at some point.
The only thing I did different after Sunday was shut down the machine and pull it from use for the night. Haven’t had anything weird with it all week, other than it doesn’t like to read FCP files from Leopard machines. It’s a 10.4.11 machine – which begs the question, what version of the OS are you running with FCP?