Lawrence Gray
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Hmm… it says its progressive and looks progressive!
I can’t believe that I have to manually changed every single clip I import from the EX1… because they all have the same setting! Don’t think that’s the answer. Doesn’t seem to make much difference whether it’s set to keep aspect ratio or not.
I dragged a few of my clips onto the time line that’s garbled the aspect ratios and they all need rendering, despite the setting being the same.
Opened up a new sequence, with the same settings, and dragged the same clips in… no problem. Correct aspect ratio. And no rendering.
Something must have happened with that sequence setting.
If I cut and past into the new sequence at least I don[t have to render but I have to replace all the corrupted clips, with, well, exactly the same clips which come in perfectly OK!
Is there a quick way of searching within the BINS for timeline clips?
It looks like I’ll have to piece this together manually… Any idea how to stop this happening again?
Lawrence Gray
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Thanks… Now, the clips that have been affected have exactly the same setting as those that haven’t. They have “preserve aspect ratio” ticked.
Do I have to go through all the clips and untick?
And does that set the default of the sequence setting to 1920/1080?
You’re right in that I’ve got 1920/1080 Square. If I drag that into the sequence and tell it to conform to the clip size, it gives me this setting… 1920/1080 HDTV 1080i(16:9) despite the clip being Progressive.
If I don’t drag anything onto the line it gives me the 1440/1080 HD(1440×1080)(16;9) with Pixel Aspect Ration as HD(1440×1080) ratio as the default setting no matter what.
Having unticked the preserve aspect ratio on a couple of clips… I’ve found it hasn’t changed the clip in the time line, other than requiring me to re-render it.
Lawrence Gray
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Thanks… so it seems it’s just another of those confusing little glitches that seem to plague the programme.
Lawrence Gray
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Afraid the XD Cam is set to 25p and I’ve no reason to think it’s doing anything else.
Format Properties… Vid Rate 25fps, Frame Size, 1920×1080, Compressor XDCAM EX 1080p25 (35Mb/sVBR), Data Rate 4.3 MB/sec, Pixel Aspect Square. Field Dominance None
Sequence… 25fps Frame Size 1920×1080 XDCAM EX 1080p25(35Mb/s VBR) 4.3 MB/sec, Square
That all looks OK to me…
I looked at the article that Don suggested and looked at my Capture Settings in my audio/visual settings. I used the generic setting to set the 1920×1080 custom size. I closed it and opened it again just to see whether the settings had taken and the Custom setting had changed to HDTV 1080i(16;9)
So I wonder why? And wonder if that has anything to do with the sluggish performance of my Mac Pro.
I also note that despite have the Blackmagic Card in there, I get no QuickTime Video Settings. I also note that if I try out the other settings for cameras that would require a capture card I get no mention of the Blackmagic Card. This might be because I’ve no deck attached to the card… I’m tapeless!… Or it might be because of something else.
It might be irrelevant. The card does get noticed and does play back on a monitor. So I assume it’s doing work on the real time stuff.
Is this quirk anything to consider when trying to work out why my Mac Pro performs worse than an iMac? (I’ve had all the tests on the hardware find nothing. THe machine works OK without FCP installed. Install it and it takes six seconds to open up a menu and even menus within the FCP take time to open. And moving the play is not exactly easy. And for reasons beyond me, once you separate the sound from the video, it does not always re-link when you link it back.
So there’s a number of issues I’m trying to work out and this quirk just seems yet another bizarre one.
I assume that all XD Cam users have exactly the same setting? They might like to check to see if it’s not just me.
Lawrence Gray
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Not sure what you mean by duplicate the Easy Set up. How do I do that and why?
FCP didn’t seem to know which aspect ratio so I had to set it by hand. Certainly Square rather than anamorphic.
And the play back doesn’t look interlaced despite the Sequence Setting saying it is. However, when I round trip to Motion that comes back interlaced despite the preference setting being EX 1080p25 and needs rendering.
Lawrence Gray
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That’s what I’ve done… and the setting is as I said. Very strange. Why’s it say Interlaced and not progressive?
Lawrence Gray
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The consensus seems to be that the Easy Setup has caused the problem and that I need to make sure it’s set to conform with what I’m importing. Though it also needs to conform with what Color renders out so that files from Color don’t go out of sync with the sound… haven’t tested everything yet, so we’ll see.
Lawrence Gray
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Hi,
Not exactly easy to answer this question. I’m not capturing with the device as I’ve got a PMW EX1 camera. Nor am I exporting to tape.
So I’m importing into FC with 1920/1080 25fps XDCAM EX 1080p and I note that the time line is exporting in 1440/1080 23.98fps
Quicktime Render with the Letterbox setting produces the wrong aspect ration but if I use fit Within Dimensions I get the correct one.
Similarly H264 for Video Podcasting gives me the correct aspect ration but Mpeg 4, ProRes 422 for Progressive material (High Quality) does not. Nor does the h 264 Webcasting setting.
I’ve just changed the Easy Set up to XDCAM EX 1080p so perhaps that will help. At the moment the Sequence Settings see to default back to the 1440/1080 setting no matter what I do. The Pixel ratio doesn’t give me a 1920 choice at all. If I use the Custom setting to set the 1920 ration I get black space either side on the canvas.
So no idea what the setting there should be.
It seemed OK before I put the card in so something has happened.
By the way, before I put the card in the machine couldn’t cope with PMW EX1 material, despite everyone saying it should be able to. It doesn’t. Much too slow. Lots of freeze ups. Afterwards, it works fine. Except for this one thing. I can’t get the Letterbox setting.
Lawrence Gray
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Livetype 2.1.3
FCP 6.04I’m just using a Livetype Template.
Haven’t a clue about Motion. I’ve yet to open it and even look at the manual! I’ve signed up for a course later in the year.
Send your e-mail and I’ll send you the file.
Lawrence Gray
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You don’t get any options when you save a Livetype file. It works when you export the .mov file but not when you simply import the Livetype file, as it is supposed to.
In another message group someone with a similar problem complains that Livetype has a problem with Intel Macs. I wonder if it has anything to do with that.
Lawrence Gray