Lawrence Marshall
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Kidding about “those cool Hollywood dissolves”! Point being – my dissolves and fades (half-second, one-second, two-second) are just not fluid and smooth at 24 fps…
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“Render All” is checked, and playback is on “Highest Quality”…
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I don’t have an immediate solution for you, but I can tell you that any time I’ve ever brought a Windows Media file into FCP, it comes in fine just as you say, you can edit it, etc. But I consistently hvae had difficulties exporting it out – – FCP freezing, eventual beach ball of death, pretty much total aggravation. My solution, which I know will cause you to groan, has been to take my WMV clips and export those to a more “normal” editing format (Pro Res, DVC Pro, whtaever) and edit *those* clips. Probably not realistic for you at this time. Can you lay your edited timeline off to tape, digitize it back in using your favorite flavor codec, and export that?
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Thank you for this suggestion, Rafael. Admittedly this is my first experience with XDCAM EX. Last night I copied all the clips I edited in my XDCAM timeline, including audio clips, and dropped them on a DVC Pro HD timeline, 720p, running at 23.976 fps. Everything scaled correctly and played fairly smoothly without rendering. I rendered it out anyways… it’s an 8-minute program and took about that long to re-render to the DVC Pro HD timeline. This morning I’ll try the same, dropping the edited clips into a ProRes timeline.
Larry (I’ve been doing this a very long time… why are there so many frickin’ formats?) Marshall
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Hi Rafael, thanks for responding. My edit is pretty much completed on the XDCAM timeline except for lots of holes where I have to put in some composited sequences. I didn’t shoot the project; I was brought in to edit. I am going to take the XDCAM timeline and let it render overnight to a DVC Pro HD timeline. I did a small test… it seems to work, and then I can composite my After Effects comps more efficiently. I think. I hope.
Larry (as the deadline screams closer and closer) Marshall
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If you can provide me an email, I can send you a short encode. My email is marshallmediagroup@comcast.net
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Hi Craig –
Sorenson Squeeze 6 does not have a .wmv preset available… all the presets for Windows Media are VC-1. You can’t select .wmv as an option because it doesn’t exist. Don’t know if this has anything to do with the “thousands” vs. “millions” of colors issue.
I edit on an Intel Mac, compress on a Mac, and view Windows Media files on a Mac (via Flip 4 Mac). I’m on Leopard (approved for Squeeze 6), and, while not at the current version of Quicktime, I am using a version that is also approved for Squeeze 6. My source files are Quicktime, DVC Pro HD.
I am running the latest version of Flip 4 Mac. When I compress these Quicktime files to WMV, they come out in millions of colors. When I compress them using the trial version of Episode, they come out in millions of colors. There is *nothing* I can do, nothing I can set, in Squeeze 6 to make the WMVs anything but “thousands” of colors.
This issue was posted recently on the Sorenson Forum boards from another Mac user… so far there has been no response.
If you have the time or inclination, you might try downloading the trial version and seeing if your results are the same (assuming you are on a Mac?)
Larry
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Problem solved. Sort of. Client decided they would rather have the program recorded to tape. Thanks for the AMA update for June.
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I haven’t heard anything from AJA to address this issue. For me, the crackling, static sound occurs sporadically while working with both HD and SD timelines. I recently called AJA, they said to download the latest software and it should take care of it, but it didn’t. For me, the crackling, static sound seems to occur when I make an audio edit or audio level adjustment on the timeline, then play it back once or twice. After that, it seems to be fine (i.e. – no crackling or static after that edit is played back a couple/few times). Weird. And unfortunately time-wasting, as I have to keep “rewinding” my edit over and over until it stops and I can actually HEAR the audio edit or adjustment that I made. And it doesn’t happen all the time… it doesn’t happen on every edit. Makes it hard to reproduce and diagnose…
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Hi Bob –
First, my condolences to the death of your mother. I lost my mother earlier this year… very hard thing to go through…
I tried all your tricks to get rid of the crackling, static sound intermittently jumping out of the analog outs of the Kona LHi card. The only blackburst thing I have is a Horita black burst, which I use for everything else, but didn’t have it hooked up to the card. Doesn’t matter… after syncing the card and making the proper adjustments in the AJA control panel, I still get the static-y crackling. I called AJA… they have a new driver, which I downloaded but haven’t tried yet… will let you know.
Thanks again, Larry