[Libby Austin]

thanks, Dave. I’ll switch the fields around and see what happens.
How would I go about scaling up and reframing? Take the size up from the current 50 and move the shot around in the frame?
Libby

Libby

[Libby Austin]

Well- hmm, summoning my powers of description…
it looks blurry, sort of low res, and the shot itself is a pan, so there’s a jerky quality to it… plus there are some horizontal and vertical lines in the shot and they flicker during the pan. Hope that gives you some clues.
thanks,
Libby

Libby

[Libby Austin]

Sorry, Shane!
OK, I see where you are going with this. Looks like some of the footage I thought was HD is in fact SD.
thanks!

Libby

[Libby Austin]

Thanks, Sean. I created the new timeline with new sequence settings, highlighted all the clips in the sequence, and right clicked on the highlighted footage to get to “remove attributes,” then unclicked Basic Motion. The HD clips on the timeline are still small, but the still images are full-screen, although the motion effects on the stills have gone away.
Still not quite where i want to be with this.

Libby

[Libby Austin]

Hi Scott,
thanks for your thoughts. My sequence setting is HD 1440×1080 16:9, pixel aspect ratio HD 1440×1080, Compressor HDV 10801 60. Much of the video footage was shot on XDCam. But it is the still images that are the problem.

I experimented with changing the jpegs to tiffs, and making the larger (20 MB) files smaller (5MB) via Photoshop. I saved the tiffs to a different folder on the same drive.
It seemed to work at first but the problem is has re-emerged. Then I moved the whole stills folder from an external hard to my internal hard drive. Again, a temporary fix and then back to the problem. This time it plays for a second or 2 and then goes to black.

This is a really bizarre problem. What could be going on?

Libby

[Libby Austin]

I am seeing some of the other posts with this problem.
So, it looks like- Even if I purchase a new iMac & a FCP upgrade, this problem may remain?
Lib

[Libby Austin]

Ah, good ol’ QT. 6 or 7 should open these 3IVX files.

We did get as far as using Clipstream last session, but it seems that I didn’t have the Export specs well in hand.
Thanks to all for the thoughts.

Elizabeth

[Libby Austin]

Thanks, Steve (and Michael and Walter).
I’ll try this when I meet with her tomorrow. Now to hunt down that tutorial for doing conversions in MPEG Streamclip.
Elizabeth

[Libby Austin]

Walter, Michael,
Ok, I see what you’re saying. Does anyone on the forum have an alchemical conversion workflow to turn flipcam media into something FCP can recognize?
Elizabeth

[Libby Austin]

Hmm, I guess I am not clear on that. And I don’t have the clients laptop in front of me. I made the timeline an NTSC, but that was just a guess– a wrong one. I wasn’t sure what the clips were.
Why isn’t FCP6 figuring this out for me?