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This is not normal. Final Cut is a good system. How much memory do you have? I’d look at bad memory first. My system is about identical to yours. I have 4.5 gigs of ram and a Huge SCSI array.

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You can also place the cursor in motion where you want the character. select the copyright symbol in character palette and hit the insert button.

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Your 30p is actually psf (progressive segmented frame).

This means that the frame is composed of two subfields which contain the same moment in time divided into an odd and even set of fields. The image is indeed progressive but the vtr is tricked into thinking it is interlace because of the two fields.

Interlace contains two fields created from one frame but each field contains two moments in time separated by 1/60 of a second.

So in your case you do not need to do anything to work with the footage in FCP.

Keep in mind when shooting in 30P you will have more motion blur than when in 60i mode because of the actual exposure time at the CCD 1/30 sec versus 1/60 sec. You can reduce the motion blur in 30P by activating the camera shutter and setting it to 1/60 when shooting in 30P mode.
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What he said. One other thing, 30p with alot of motion and pans can look pretty stuttery. If that were to happen you could try to do a time stretch at 50% speed using compressor or Twixtor, ect. Something witch does optical flow analysis. In effect making a 60p version of the clip, and then interlace that. It would be rather time consuming and there’s a really good chance it wouldn’t look right but it’s possible.

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Motion Projects import as clips. In AE, go to import file. Change recomended files to all files, at the bottom change file type to clip, select and go. It will not come in as seperate layers. It is rendered on the fly by the Motion engine.

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I lay out to tape all the time this way. Sequence is 4 channel mono. But I’m using a Decklink Extereme. I don’t think It’s a specific FC5 bug.

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Hmmm, if you can have only one get AE. It’s alot faster and more stable on the Mac than Combustion. Neither of them integrate very much with Final Cut unless you get Automatic Duck. I do like having Combustion for it’s keyers, color correction and the edit operator. Also to me it’s just less “fiddly” to use. BTW get Motion if you have the bucks. If nothing else, it’s a great type engine that integrates very well with FCP.

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This may sound pretty complicated, but is a tracker possible? Also some others would be:

-A more controllable edge rays that you can turn off and on cleanly for those quick pops without resorting to fading a layer.
-I’ll second a more complete one shot color corrector. One with brightness, contrast, gamma and color channel adjustments.
-A more advanced 3d node where you can offset the pivot and scale forwards
-RGB channel offsets
-film grain/animated noise.
-Something like The Foundry’s Bad TV

That’s all for now.
Thanks!

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Thanks for the help guys. Peter, yeah I’d love to know if you can swing that. In chacking the manual for the DVW-2000, It states this.

For customers in the U.S.A. and Canada:
1Power cord 125 V 10 A (2.4 m): ! 1-557-377-11
2Plug holder (Brown): 3-613-640-01
Power voltage: AC 100 to 240 V

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Just an aside to this. You can use Motion to give some of the functionality of Automatic Duck. Cut a project in FCP, make it a Motion project. Then import it to AE. No rendering. You don’t have any layers but you could do things like turning off layers in Motion and saving incrementally.

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In AE try to import a file. In the top dialogue under enable, select all files. Point to a Motion project. On the import dialogue at the bottom, under format, select import as footage. Click OK and go.