[Mark Maness]

I do have one question for you, Bill. Is your computer one of the new style Macs or the original Quad systems of a couple years ago? I ask because if your system is of the older style, 5 gigs of RAM will cause some serious performance issues with XDCAM. The newer boxes don’t seem to have this issue.

I have a couple if the older style Intel Macs and memory for us had to be in multiples of 4. Otherwise, there are weird issues with FCP.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

SMACK! I should have had a V-8!

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

[Bill Coons] ” As noted in the next post, this video was shot at the SP setting, which is not 35Mbps VBR, but 25Mbps CBR. “

Wel… That’ll do it!

Funny how FCP can’t tell the difference in HDV and XDCAM HD 25 mb CBR.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

Here’s a commercial ad for you….

Try Digital Rebellion’s FCS Maintenance Pack. It contains a program called Corrupt Clip Finder and also Project Repair. It is very well worth the $129 for the software. Its saved my butt a few times already.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

Have you tried to delete your prefs for FCP? Try repairing your permission, too.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

I’m not 100% sure this is only a FCP 7 thing or not. But, outputting ProRes422 and XDCAM HD sequences seem to output much much faster for myself.

Besides, you can output more than one sequence at a time doing this… Some of us end up with multiple versions of a program and we need to keep shelf masters of each. Exporting all of the sequences at one time makes more sense.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

[Bill Coons] “Question: In Final Cut Pro, when I drag an XDCAM HD clip into an empty timeline, the suggested compressor comes up as HDV 108060i, even though there is a compressor available for XDCAM HD 1080 60i 35VBR in the menu. When I change the time line to that specific codec, the native footage must be rendered. “

That is because XDCAM HD uses a flavor of HDV. Its not HDV but a “cousin” of HDV. Apple doesn’t understand XDCAM HD very well, and reports it as HDV.

But, let me ask you this… Did you import the footage using the Sony Transfer program?

It almost makes me think that someone has converted the footage improperly if FCP as saying this is HDV 1080i60. FCP SHOULD interpret it correctly if the Sony Transfer program is installed.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

[Roli Rivelino] “Unless you know of a good codec to use whereby I can give someone a good quality full size version of my HD footage? “

You are on the money using H.264 BUT… Look at the Apple movie trailers. They’re not full resolution at all and that is because not all computers out there can handle the bandwidth needed to play those videos with low end graphic cards.

If you are using this to pass footage to others for use, then full res it must be. BUT, if you are just trying to give folks or clients videos to view on their computers, you’ll have to downsize your video somewhat.

Go to Apple’s website and look at their trailers. Download a couple, if you can and dissect them using Quicktime to look at their settings. Study what Apple did to make these trailers look awesome. Use the presets in Compressor, too. Play around until you find something that is acceptable to all.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

Bill, you ALWAYS edit your projects based on the majority of your footage. DVCProHD renders rather quickly and with great quality.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com

[Mark Maness]

Usually errors like this don’t happen unless it was installed to the wrong drive.

I’ve installed FCP many times in my career and your given choices of where to install. I would suggest that you fully uninstall FCP and reinstall to the correct drive.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
schazamproductions@mac.com