[Magda Fernandez]

Thank you, Burt. I appreciate your explanation about deinterlacing. My globals time range parameter was accurate. But I believe that my problem was a cache settings problem because after applying the free Shake Configuration download, which I learned about in a Cow post, the frozen Viewer problem disappeared.

Boy, am I glad these forums exist!

By the way, I’m not sure why, but my post was assigned to this FCP forum, although I requested the Shake forum when I opened my account. But so what? You and Rafael have been tremendously helpful!

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[Magda Fernandez]

Thank you, Rafael! I’m beginning to see at least some of the sources of my confusion. I’m going to try your suggestions and see what happens.

As for your transparent thumbnail issue, I encountered a similar thing yesterday when sending one of my clips from FCP to Shake. The only thing that I recall doing differently that time was not changing the Sequence title when sending to Shake. When I tried sending it again next time with a new different title, the thumbnail image appeared above my Shake node.

Since I am a newbie I have no idea if this is related to your invisible thumbnail problem or not. But you’re welcome to give it a shot and see if it makes a difference. You’ve probably checked the obvious, too, of clicking ThumbnailsDisplay on in Shake’s GUI Controls and saving those Interface Settings. My apologies if this is stating the obvious, but this is a consequence of my newbiness.

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[Magda Fernandez]

Hi Rafael,

Well, the reason I’m deinterlacing is because I need to composite a bunch of green-screen footage in Shake, and my understanding is that it’s best to deinterlace first (in order to render my composites properly) and then reinterlace when FilingOut to FCP. Please advise me if I’m wrong. Ultimately I want a “video” look as opposed to a “film” look. Since I need to work in Shake anyway, should I deinterlace with SFileIn in Shake, or Nattress (in FCP)? Which option is the least lossy?

As for working in Base, when I tried that Shake crashed. It doesn’t crash, however, when I work with the proxy I describe (see my 1st post). Something in my settings is not right, however, because my Viewer Node is not dynamic. It remains frozen in the 1st frame, even though the Time bar at the bottom moves, and with .5 in the Increments box and “Upper” in Input Frame Dominance.

In case the problem lies with my hardware setup, here’s what I’m using: Apple McPro Desktop. Processor: 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon. Memory: 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM. Seagate 300 GB external hard drive.

Please keep the questions coming! Perhaps I’m not describing the problem properly or leaving something important out. But I’m determined to make this work somehow. Yeah, I’m a newbie…

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