[Les Kaye]

[Duncan Craig] “I’ll say now I’ve only touched on the new FCP feature but it appears a bit limited and flaky.”

In what way?

[Duncan Craig] “If FCP allowed me to take my properly synced layered timeline and create a switching system where I simply play the timeline. I can see all the angles in another viewer. I press buttons 1 to 5 (or whatever) or clip on the angle in the viewer,”

5.0 does precicely that.

[Les Kaye]

The only related link I could find didn’t work. Is there something more specific?

[Les Kaye]

Thanks much for the details. I’m not exactly hosed – just re-export with a different codec, and the 10 segments are all about 5-10 sec. No big deal, but it’s great to know for the next time. Thanks again,
-Les

[Les Kaye]

[Andy Mees] “… for our graphics/PC work we found it was necessary to adopt an intermidate codec.”

Thanks Andy, that’s what I did last week. I used MJPEG B and reconverted back to dvcpro HD in FCP. The end result looked more than fine. I’ll do the same again.
-Les

[Les Kaye]

[Jerry Hofmann] “What was the original material? DVCPRO100?”

DVCPRO HD

[Les Kaye]

[Jerry Hofmann] “or even choose the DVCPR0100 codec from the File/Export/QT Movie… command. there’s a dialog box to change it to whatever you want there…”

Thanks Jerry. Pretty sure I did exactly that. But operator error seems a so much more comforting excuse…

However, I have a bigger issue. I needed to do some offsite AE stabilizing work on a PC, and since I also wanted to stay native, I just exported at dvcpro HD, ASSUMING (oops) I’d be able to dl the codec for a PC. Well…so far it ain’t been easy, and I haven’t found it.

-Les

[Les Kaye]

Yhanks Jerry, but it seems like extra steps. First export as QT, then export the new clip again as QT conversion. I’m fairly certain that this was easier in the past.

Thanks for the google suggestion, but it didn’t work – yet.
-Les

[Les Kaye]

THANKS TO ALL…

[Les Kaye]

Try deleting your temp internet files (under Tools > Options). See if that helps.

[Les Kaye]

[Doug] “what might cause such a disparity in performance of these systems? “
I can talk about an initial comparison of the same clips on our FCP & Avid AdrenalinesHDs (on a PC): FCP is WAY faster (4-5X faster).