[Martin Baker]

Do a search for a folder called “Waveform Cache Files” and delete them. This will force FCP to recalculate the waveforms next time you open up the project.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

On one of the DV Guys radio shows from NAB this year, Ted Schilowitz from AJA was asked about Q-Rez and he confirmed that basically the feature is shelved because of the appearance of the DVCPROHD codec.

He also revealed that AJA are working with another company (could it be Bitjazz perhaps?…) to do capturing to a lossless codec for a future version…interesting huh?

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

Well…all the references to Q-Rez tout it as a 4:1 hardware compression technology – i.e. it just scaled the HD image to half size so a 1920×1080 image would end up being 960×540. Hence the name because the image becomes a quarter of the original frame size and 4:1 compression compared to the original.

Even though the frame size had been quartered though, that’s the only compression involved so you’d be looking at a data rate of around 25MBs for 1080HD. DVCPROHD has a datarate of less than half that AND is higher resolution. So which one would you have chosen for an offline codec?! Switch the RT popup in the timeline to “Medium” quality if you want to see how Q-Rez might have looked. 🙂

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

There isn’t and Virtual VTR is the only workaround solution. It isn’t possible to write a plug-in for FCP which would do this – the ability just isn’t there for developers to get that deep into the application.

It would be great to see this in a future version of FCP though, so you know where to go…
https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

Also H.264 is veerrry verrrrrry slow to encode (the price we pay for that great quality), making it unrealistic for archiving lots of footage. Go with PhotoJPEG or DV.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

Even if Q-Rez was available, why would anyone want to use it? Given that you can get better quality and way lower data rate with the DVCPROHD codec?

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

As in using the Trim Editor window Steve or just trimming directly on the timeline?

When using the Trim Editor there are two preferences in User Preferences which affect what you hear –
Trim with Sequence Audio and
Trim with Edit Selection Audio (Mute Others)

If trimming directly in the timeline then it’s not possible to have the audio scrub as you trim back and forth.

You can sort by multiple columns by selecting the first column normally and then selecting further columns whilst holding down Shift.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

As in using the Trim Editor window Steve or just trimming directly on the timeline?

When using the Trim Editor there are two preferences in User Preferences which affect what you hear –
Trim with Sequence Audio and
Trim with Edit Selection Audio (Mute Others)

If trimming directly in the timeline then it’s not possible to have the audio scrub as you trim back and forth.

You can sort by multiple columns by selecting the first column normally and then selecting further columns whilst holding down Shift.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

Quickest way I’ve found is to select the clip/transitions, hit CTRL-B to disable them and then CTRL-B to enable them again. The links to render files are lost by doing this.

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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[Martin Baker]

Exactly. Making the track height bigger just gives you even more empty space which could be filled with a waveform!

Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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