[Klaus]

Thanks for your response yspyyspy. I am not attempting any 3:2 pulldown or working in progressive so I don’t see how the link you provided relates.

Thanks for your response lightning ad. Will try working in Prores next project and see how that works. The thing is, something as basic as a speed effect should just work, as it has for me in all other incarnations since FCP1 without this problem.

[Klaus]

Thanks for your reply Richard.

I tried to do that, but it only seemed to recognise work completed under FCP 5.

I have abandoned my quest to save anything from the project, cut my losses, and am treating it as a lesson.

I’ve been spending the last few hours rebuilding the project and, as tedious as it is, it comes together much faster the second time around

[Klaus]

Thanks for your reply Walter.

Good advice to save the project as a different name.

The strange thing that happened with this project is that, while it was started in FCP5, it opened fine in FCP 6 and worked fine for a couple of weeks. Then, out of the blue, all content on the timeline disappeared. Same thing happened with all content in autosave timeline – disappeared. And, as mentioned, every render file, including the folders themselves, disappeared.

As mentioned, it happened about an hour after I upgraded to Magic Bullet Editors 2, but maybe just coincidence.

Perhaps, as you mentioned, the project was already corrupted when created in FCP5.

[Klaus]

I should also add that this happened not long after I upgraded to Magic Bullet Editors 2. I forgot to mention this. Not sure if this may have exacerbated the problem or not.

Anyway, I guess this has been a reminder to be more careful, and not simply rely on backups in the autosave vault, because every one of the backups seems to have corrupted too.

[Klaus]

Thank you for your reply, Shane, and I apologise for not expresing myself clearly.

I will try again.

For no apparent reason, my sequence (upon which previously existed 2 days of work) is now completely blank. This, obviously, is a major problem. When I use the ‘Apple-I’ function to examine the file using the Finder I can see that it is 132k, indicating that there is something there.

What also seems strange is that every render file has disappeared. Not only that, the actual folder that contained the render files has disappeared too.

Of course I understand that one should not upgrade project files mid-project etc, and it was a mistake to do so. I guess at this stage I’m wondering if there is any way of retrieving the info on my project file before I go back to square 1.

[Klaus]

Thanks for your response

Have checked the project properties in Motion and they are the same as the FCP timeline – lower field dominant for Pal.

Have not tried to convert the original footage to uncompressed 8 bit. Not a good workflow for me. But I will test it out as an experiment, just to see.

Any other ideas?

[Klaus]

Thanks for your reply.

No, ‘shift fields’ is not active in my clip filters.

I should also add that it looks fine on my LCD display when I play it, and it’s only when I watch it on a CRT display that it flickers which confirms the idea that it is a fields issue.

[Klaus]

(Greg) “My market is a large one. I produce, direct, and edit mostly corporate videos for large corporations. We certainly have the capability of pulling a crew of 40, and using Billy Crystal as a host”

Sounds like you’re doing some pretty high-end stuff, Greg. Do you have a web site? Would be a great opportunity for a smaller time operator such as myself to check out some of your work.

[Klaus]

Thanks Mark. Great advice. I did a test shooting the screen of my 24″ dell using my Z1 and the results were pretty good for my purposes.

[Klaus]

I ended up buying DV Matte Blast for Motion, and it works really well. Worked extremely quickly with only a few clicks. And all in real time