Lee Adair
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I finally sent her a link to open on her iPad where she declared it was close… then I put the iPad into Night Shift mode and I think she had an ah-hah moment…
I’d still like to solve the first bit, however. A friend showed me how to do it on Avid – one nice feature on Avid, but the rest of using Avid is like editing with two sticks and a rock, IMHO.
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Incredible, especially the 7/X incompatibility. Initially Apple stated that the incompatibility was due the the “new advanced architecture” used by FCP”ex”, making it sound like it was a 64 bit architecture issue. Well, AVID and Adobe seemed to make that leap just fine. As Apple has made clarifying statements, it now seems to be due to their insistence on denying that “tracks” can or should exist.
Bottom line – I had an FCP wishlist that included native MXF support, 64 bit processing, updates or integration of DVD Studio Pro and Color functionality; not hard stuff. Instead, we get a bastard product that I’d compare to a radical new car design – sexy body if you can find the doors, 1000 hp engine governed to 90 hp and only one wheel (but third-party vendors will sell you new wheel mounts at an unspecified later date…)
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So true, especially the 7/X incompatibility. Initially Apple stated that the incompatibility was due the the “new advanced architecture” used by FCP”ex”, making it sound like it was a 64 bit architecture issue. Well, AVID and Adobe seemed to make that leap just fine. As Apple has made clarifying statements, it now seems to be due to their insistence on denying that “tracks” can or should exist.
Bottom line – I had an FCP wishlist that included native MXF support, 64 bit processing, updates or integration of DVD Studio Pro and Color functionality; not hard stuff. Instead, we get a bastard product that I’d compare to a radical new car design – sexy body if you can find the doors, 1000 hp engine governed to 90 hp and only one wheel (but third-party vendors will sell you new wheel mounts at an unspecified later date…)
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I felt the same way back in the day about Media Composer and FCP; “how is a $3,000 investment supposed to replace my $40,000 AVID and the $20,000 upgrade I’m contemplating?” Well, it did, and the next year when AVID was hitting me up for another $20K to upgrade to HD, Apple offered me a free download.
Your previous investment made you money (at least I hope it did!) How will investing less per machine this time around be any different if the software works?
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BTW, Sonnet says that their new driver also takes care of the >2Gig RAM issue, and, since it’s an updated version of the SIL3132 driver used in so many other peripherals, it resurrected my cheap eSATA Express34 card!
Lee
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Now that Sonnet has released a driver that worked with my eSATA stuff, the Duel Adapter was the only hurdle that I had to moving to SL on my Macbook Pro. So I created a second small partition (easy to do in SL), installed 10.5 and voila; I boot into the 10.5 partition when I need to transfer footage and then have the 10.6 as my default boot partition. I have Shotput Pro installed on my SL partition but it runs fine when I boot from 10.5. Only downside is that FCP won’t boot my SL install off the 10.5 partition so I can’t easily review footage like I used to.
Cheaper than buying another laptop and lighter to pack only one.
Lee
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I have tried a mixdown render, but it renders the errors into the mixdown. Deleting my render files and rerendering works, as does the relink. The advantage of nuking the render files is that it’s fast– it seems when I relink it also relinks the associated video, triggering another video render pass.
What’s odd is that the waveform in the viewer shows the waveform of the file as it should be, not with the errors.
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I believe so– Walter has answered that one so many times that I think he probably mumbles the answer in his sleep. The odd thing is that the problem only exists in edit-to-tape mode; everything else works and looks fine…
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Yeah, my output is 8-bit, but my last video output wasn’t worth 2 bits (sorry…)
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First time, I just got the magenta. I rebooted my system and went back into the project– this time when I went into “edit to tape” the video cycled through red and green feedback. It actually performed the edit however; color bars generated through FCP looked fine, but the video was very jagged. And this time it also looked lousy using the “print to video” function.
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