Mark Maness
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Maybe, just maybe…
Apple is looking at the future of Final Cut Studio and maybe they are pondering the idea of letting someone like Autodesk to absorb FCS into something like Smoke.
You never know… times are tough for computer companies and crazy deals are happing all of the time.
Just pure speculation though…
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Wayne Carey
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Ouch…..
I think we are laying on the floor bleeding after that post…
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No entirely true, Walter.
We are using two Mac Pro systems, one is the first generation Quad core and I’m on a 2007 Octo Core setup. We se the exact same error as you.
But let me add to this….
When you use a ProRes Easy Setup and you view any other media that is not ProRes, you’ll get a screen of noise when played. When you stop playing the video, you’ll get a proper freeze frame of the video – it looks correct, but play it, you’ll just get colored noise.
This is because ProRes is setup to view in 10-bit. This is true for ALL of the ProRes settings. I may be wrong about this, but I thought that ProRes 422 was 8-bit and ProRes422 HQ was 10-bit. Is this correct?
Besides this, we have an older G5 that can play ProRes and DVCProHD without this issue and I remember I was able to do this with the 6.0 driver. After the 6.5 and 7.1 drivers came out, I was no longer able to watch DVCProHD media while having a ProRes Easy Setup.Anybody concur on this?
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Wayne Carey
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What you are seeing is the compression artifacting issues. Any time you shoot in SD or HD and shoot using a codec other than Uncompressed, you have to use something with compression added.
In SD video, when you shot your project you shot it DVCPro 25mbit, right? Well, keep in mind that HD has approximately four times the resolution of SD video, therefore you are going to see the compression artifacts when looking on an HD monitor.
The ONLY way to get around this is to shoot in HD or capture all of your footage in a best compression scheme such as ProRes422 or Uncompressed.
You’ll NEVER see an SD DVD look pristine on an HD monitor. Even upconverting SD DVD thru a BluRay player will show artifacts. You can minimize this by compressing your media for DVD at a high bit rate but you take the risk of not being able to read the DVD on any DVD player. Its a trade-off.
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Just for fun… Export a self-contained clip and compress that one.
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Wayne Carey
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Did you set up your rending to ProRes422 or to the old standby of XDDCAM HD?
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Wayne Carey
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ANYTIME you look at SD video on an HD monitor, it will look bad.
Let me ask you this… What bit rate are you compressing this at? an average of 5.5 or 4.5? You can go as high as 6 and your video will look absolutely gorgeous.
Oh yeah… one more thing. I’ve noticed this issue when making reference movies, too. I always create a stand alone file just for the purpose of making DVDs, then when its safe, I delete them.
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Wayne Carey
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No… not at all. Its just that most people don’t shoot in this mode. Not as common as 24p or 24pA.
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Wayne Carey
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Can you give us some more info about your project? What codec are you working with?
It looks like you are working with DVCProHD 720p23.98, is this correct?
What kind of output hardware do you have? Is this going to a Quicktime file or tape?
In all probability… your video is not true 24p. If it were, you’d see scene flicker on your monitor. And almost everyone shoot DVCProHD in 24p, not 24pA. If so, just change your sequence settings to DVCProHD 720p30, and it should work. You may have to re-render everything.
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Anytime you have issues of ANY sort in FCP… Trash your prefs, reset your permissions, and check your disks for any errors using something like DiskWarroir.
Maybe purchasing a program such as the FCS Maintenance Pack will help with your issues inside of your timelines.
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