Matthew Brunn
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Can you export a ref file and use Compressor separately? If Compressor runs separately but not inside FCP trash FCP prefs and retry. If it still doesn’t run then I would be suspicious of the Compressor install.
Also try to run permissions from Disk Utility.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
What window is active?
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
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Have you tried to play all the respective media separately at the point of stoppage in other programs? For instance, play the video files in QT and the title in Livetype, maybe render the title out and import and replace footage. I would also see if that section would re-render or output to a reference QT movie. Anything special about that section? Transition? Effects? Keyframes? Will the video continue to play after that point?
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
I would try to re-author the DVD and then try it. If it still does it, the file from FCP would be the next weak link. Could also be the drive it is trying to create the DVD on is really chopped up. HOw much space do you have on your drive with the DVD project?
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
If that doesn’t work, as in my case once, I trashed my entire Prefs folder and then she started.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
If it’s stopping playback after a render, it has to be system problem or drive too full. Even a 400 G3 can play DV after a render.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
The “sales” pitch! I’ve been a victim of that before. The G5 single processor just doesn’t have the guts to more than a basic edit. A lower third question, is that Photoshop file? On my machine the only thing I get real time is Color Correction, fades and wipes. All graphics and effects I have to render.
I wish that FCP had more secondary hardware to add functionality such as keys and composites in realtime but not yet, unless you get a Cinewave.
As for your HDV not playing that seems more like a system wide slow down. Make sure you don’t have any Virus software or your machine running other processes. Norton can kill editing systems, in my experience.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
Sounds like your PAL to NTSC conversion isn’t very good. The black “matte” could be from the fact that the camera that you are digitizing from is creating this? You see this in FCP?
As for the stuttering and pixelation, I think Graeme Nattress has a PAL to NTSC conversion tool. Edit the whole thing in PAL and then convert it.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
Well, trying to play the video, read the system and write to the drive is quite a lot for just one drive. I would recommend to put the video on an external drive (7200rpm firewire) and you should notice better performance. However the limits to the processor, drive speed and mother board speed will still limit you from doing a lot of compounding of effects.
It is just the limits to that processor and hardware setup. HDV take a great deal more processing power than DV so that is where I think it is falling down on HDV. The external drive should help but will not eliminate all your issues.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4 -
I think that dubbing to DV is the best choice at this point. It is the cheapest way to archive. As you transfer your footage, log it. I put marker points on the DV tape as I run each reel and type a excel of timecodes.
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Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 5.1/AE 6.5/DVDSP4