[Lawrence Gray]

If I upgrade the firmware will I still be able to use m 8gb and 16gb cards?

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

Afraid I haven’t got any slots that fit that card. Is it the card or the camera that’s the problem?

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

It’s the files. When you open Finder it take six second to open a file.

Whether you run FCP or not, Finder takes six second to open a file.

But it was after installing FCP that this problem started… or rather, after updating FCP. When you install Final Cut Studio 2 it won’t work properly unless you update it. Before updating Finder works relatively quickly. After updating it doesn’t.

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

And yep… Remove attributes… remove Distort!

How that got in there in the first place is a mystery but that’s the solution!

Thanks

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

Ah… nope… I read that wrong… the sequence setting I copied from was 1440 and not 1920!

How that happened I do not know! The fairies crept in and changed it…

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

Hmm… well that did have an effect. Just not the one I hoped for. After removing the attributes and then copying and pasting into another time line… exactly the same sequence setting… it changed the aspect ratio to a rather long and thing one instead of the squat and square one!

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

I can’t find anything different… I’m pretty much a default setting guy!

And when I copy from one identical time line to the other, it drops the Aspect Ratio down to 4:3

The only solution I’ve come across is to export from the time line and create a new .mov file, with exactly the same settings, and then re-import that to the new time line.

I haven’t tried cut and pasting that from one timeline to another yet.

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

Hi,

thanks for that. It is the setting that I have.

Even so, when I drag a clip into the time line it tells me the settings do not conform and that it will change the time line for me. So I say YES… and so don’t have to render. And when I check the Sequence Setting they are exactly the same as before.

I’ve no idea whether this causes me problems. All I know is that I have to be doubly careful and double check each time because the timeline settings have mysteriously been garbled a few times now.

So, why would it say that my clip is no compatible with the settings when they are, and why, on telling it to make the setting compatible, does it simply leave them the same?

Does this happen with you?

Lawrence Gray

[Lawrence Gray]

With the EX1 there’s HQ mode, if that’s what you mean. It’s 1920×1080 The alternative is SP mode, which is as you say 1440×1080

Here’s what it says about my clips in QT’s info…

XDCAM EX 1080p (35Mb/s VBR)

I’m on PAL here in Hong Kong.

[Lawrence Gray]

You me both!

Here’s what I’ve got…

I set the easy set up to Sony XD CAM HD.,, 1080 25p VBR the same as the camera setting.
My sequence setting is 1920×1080 and Aspect Ratio, for some reason is billed as HDTV 1080i(16:9) And Pixel Aspect is Square.

If I drag a clip to the time line I get the message saying that none of my sequence settings are compatible, can it change the time line to fit the clip. So I agree, because if I don’t, I have to render all the time.

Now my sequence settings are… exactly the same! Nothing has changed despite the warning.

And so I can now edit happily.

However, if I unwittingly drag a clip what was created by Motion… not a motion clip as I’ve avoided doing the round trip because it seems to crash too often… I then get a sequence that is 1280×720 (despite my setting in Motion… but that’s probably another issue to look at.)

Dragging my camera produced files onto that time line requires rendering.

Now I think I unwittingly put a clip in the line resetting one of the sequence edits to some other aspect ratio! Which clip it was that did it is a mystery to me.

However when I combined a sequence at a later date somehow the two ratios changed randomly the ratios of different clips… some clips clipped from the same master file and placed on the same time line at the same time.

The problem is getting it all back in line… which I’m resigned to doing manually…

But essentially how can I avoid this? And I wonder why does the Sequence Setting tell me it is not the same as my clip and after placing my clip on the line it remains the same?

Lawrence Gray