[Lu Nelson]

I too have this problem and switching preview on/off or switching preview types doesn’t seem to do it.

This is kind of a deal killer.

This is like when the DL Extreme PCIe model caused machines with more than 2GB to crash, and this lasted for over a year or something.

Come on BM

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Thanks for the info Shane,

I think that’s gotta be the reason — I’m not working in DVCProHD so not benefitting from the acceleration

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

What codecs are you editing with Shane? The MXO claims to accelerate HDV and DVCProHD — if you’re working with one of these, perhaps this is why its faster_?

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Mmm I thought about the last part of that post a bit and realized it might be rather easy:

just with an expression control somewhere else that would allow you to toggle between the normal delay value and an extremely large one like 300 or so, essentially causing the typing to stop at points and then continue.

Still interested if you have a better suggestion though…

LMN

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Wow — thanks, that’s of course a different way of thinking of it and much more flexible.

It seems it would also be easy to randomize the delay number a bit, to make things a bit more realistic looking WRT the way people actually type.

I have to see now how I will combine this with the method for having a flashing cursor.

Also: any suggestion on how one could control the progress of the typing?
Stopping at certain points (after a group of words e.g.) and then continuing?

Thanks again for your help!

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Wow. For real?

Maybe we’re talking about slightly different things: I think with the playback offset you may be able to have the Canvas and the MXO in sync; but what I meant with the MXO is that it’s the shuttle delay I can’t stand. It doesn’t stop when I want to stop/start/change directions as fast as Digital Cinema Mode does.

Is it that way in your set up? If not, then there’s something really wrong over here.

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Yeah but…well this is OT; but the MXO does have a significant lag time too. Not 1 second, but about five frames which is why I only use it for review and correction. I edit with Digital Cinema Desktop as its got the lowest lag time of any setup I’ve tested.

Just get a second monitor for your system and select “Digital Cinema” as your preview type

LMN

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

This is my experience too. I have not been able to find consistent or thorough explanations of the behaviour nor the rationale for it elsewhere; so I’ve compiled from my own experience (FCP 6.0.3):

opt-c — creates a nest (we know that); and a copy is created in the browser

now: if you want to reuse the nest within the same sequence, or somewhere else, you will quickly break the “parent” nest relationship unless you either:

a) drag the nest that was created in the browser, to the viewer; edit from there.
b) select your nest in the sequence and hit shift-return to open it in a *new* viewer; edit from there (via dragging only, since F9 F10 etc. only work on the default viewer)

other variations like using copy and paste, or using F to bring a match frame up in the viewer and attempting to edit from there, will create new copies of the nest, not connected to the original nest and therefore not connected to any traceable file in the browser. The logical distinction between these techniques, and whatever rationale the FCP devels had for implementing it this way, I have no idea of, so to me it seems like a hole.

In Kevin Monahan’s book on FCP Motion Graphics BTW, he insists that the behaviour is quite consistent and that all nests will remain connected unless you actually go to the browser and *duplicate* the created nest and edit from that. This may have been the implementation in an earlier version but it doesn’t seem to be any more. Wish it were.

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Fieldskit seems to be one of the best, and with the most control. Graeme Nattress’ filters are also good, and Magic Bullet Frames is also good, and quite fast.

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany

[Lu Nelson]

Kevin’s suggestion is perhaps simplest — to use Compressor;
otherwise you could nest each one inside another sequence and apply the TCG filter to them one by one. Then you could batch export the containing sequences. This is a bit of handwork, but if you keep the containing sequences (let’s call them “Export Sequences”) around, you can always use them with the Batch Export tool to run export of the latest versions.

Lu Nelson
Berlin, Germany