[Lawrence Eaton]

no warnings, just “Goodnight Vienna” and a large error report to be sent back to Cupe.

Here we go, the clock starts…… coffee please!

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Sounded good and even produced results Jeremy. In that fcpx opened, fleetingly. Then decided to crash.

I’m thinking I have some long nights ahead…..

But thank you for the suggestion.

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Thanks Jeremy,

All materials are managed in the library.

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

???? works treat, Carlos. Back to work

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Many thanks Brett.

Age must be catching up with me or that catchy tune I was listening to has got me tapping the ‘m’ key mercilessly!

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Terry,
Maybe something corrupted in your project?

Have you tried copy/pasting into a new project and trying again?

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Terry,
my workflow is to:
1) output from FCPX as prores 422HQ
2) bring it into Compressor and use the Apple Devices>Apple Devices HD(Best Quality)
3) encode
4) change extension (if needed) from .m4v to .mp4

Initial file size: 3.22gigs
Final version: 120megs
Dimensions: 1280 × 720
Codec: AAC, H.264

It’s all about your settings though, especially your bit rate, IMHO.

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

I’ll 2nd that!

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Fedor,

Ironically enough, it was just one of the things that I happened upon yesterday, too. Although I must admit, the disabling of the skimmer was something I hadn’t got to. But yes, instead of using the exact final frame I went backwards as long as I could and then used opt+F and it worked a charm.
In my case and going forward though, I will be making my workflow as simple as possible and only using images, in work like this.

Many thanks though,

Lawrence

[Lawrence Eaton]

Doug, Jeremy,

Thank you for your questions:

I’ll try and answer all in this one posting.

The movie was made by Keynote>export>Quicktime movie>1080 ( I believe you have little control over it at that point other than have 5 second holds in each slide and a 2 second transition between them)

When you add the freeze frame, the secondary jumps to make room for something else. Is this due to another clip connected to the primary further down the line?
There’s no other clips in the timeline. It’s one of the things that has been puzzling me.

Could you try moving the audio track out of the primary and putting your visuals there? Maybe a different result…
I did and the result was that it worked the same as when the video was in the primary storyline.

Do you have those slides as individual images? Looks like they’re video – how were they recorded? They are video: exported from Keynote as a quicktime movie 1080. I’m coming to the conclusion that I will have to maximize and Cmd+Shift+3 on everyone; or, change the extension in Cmd+i to .zip; confirm that I want it as that and then unpack it to get the high quality individual slides.

Jeremy:
Have you tried match framing from the timeline (Shift-f) and then option-f from there? This will connect it as a freeze frame instead of place it in your secondary. No I haven’t and I sure as heck will!

Also, have you tried the hold method? Navigate to the last frame, and then hit shift-h to hold the frame. I tried shift+H, but I think I’d have to start at the end and work backwards – which, believe me is not such a biggie as it may seem, I’d just hoped I could, I suppose “Get away” with doing it the way I wanted ☺

Gentlemen, Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions…. I’m going back in.

Lawrence