[Matt Larson]

Are you set to display all frames? Make sure you have “View>External Video” set to “All Frames”

That has tripped me up a couple times lately

[Matt Larson]

It’s not a Kona issue, I’ve seen this error on an FCP system without a Kona installed. You may want to search the Final Cut forum, I know this has come up a number of times in the past. I think the only workaround is to do what you are doing though.

[Matt Larson]

[Matt Larson] ”

Did you install the Kona and Fibre channel card in the right slots and configure them?”

Kona card in slot 3, Fibre card installed in slot 4
Choose the 2nd option in the Expansion Utility

[Matt Larson]

Did you install the Kona and Fibre channel card in the right slots and configure them? Check this out for more info: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304122

Make sure ram is installed correctly:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304492

Optimize the XServe RAID for FCP: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302780

When you downgraded from FCP 6 to 5.1.4 did you uninstall the version 4 Kona driver and re-install the 3.4 drivers? Version 4 is ONLY for FCP 6. Keep in mind you need to run their uninstaller to make sure all the old components get removed before you install the 3.4 drivers. You need to install the drivers AFTER you install FCP, not before.

[Matt Larson]

David, I take no credit for this (nor any blame if it screws your computer up worse) but I found this way to revert to QT 7.1.6:

https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070716100311118

If you are otherwise going to have to do a full reinstall anyway, this might save you some steps. Again, proceed at your own risk!

[Matt Larson]

Are you seeing this in the Viewer or Canvas? Drop these clips into a sequence for playback, I have similar problems when I play RGB clips back in the Viewer, but they work fine in the Canvas.

There used to be an issue where you would get that kind of gamma shift on playback if you had the overlays on in the Canvas of FCP. Try turning those off if you have them on.

Also, you might try converting your RGB sequence to YUV using FCP rather than some other editor (like After Effects). If I need to take a DVCProHD clip into After Effects (RGB only) I get a noticible gamma shift unless I first convert the DVCProHD(YUV) to Animation(RGB) inside FCP. It seems to handle it much better.

I’ve also found the gamma setting in the AJA Control Panel can trip me up while in After Effects if it is not set properly (or in Automatic mode).

[Matt Larson]

[Michael palmer] “How will this transfer to 30p for web use?
I assume it will be slowed down by 50%”

You can export using Quicktime conversion to a 30 fps file and it will playback at the corect speed. It will just dump every other frame and you will be left with a 30p file.

[Matt Larson]

If it’s something you need to lay off immediately, export the seq as a Self Contained Quicktime movie. Usually that will help.

As far as the dropped frames, do you have the Kona system test? May want to double check you disk speed; also, try using the read existing file setting in Speed test on the media that drops frames, maybe you have a corrupt file?

[Matt Larson]

A stab in the dark: Keep you frame rate at 50 (not 25) and don’t deinterlace. Then use the DVCProHD 1080i50 preset in FCP

If that doesn’t work, create a new sequence in the format you want to work in and compare what settings in the sequence are different than th one in your exported clip and try to match them up.

I did a similar thing getting 1080i59.94 MPEG transport streams to work in FCP using MPEGStreamClip. Trial and error. Just make sure to save presets as you work in MPEGSC otherwise you’ll never remember what you just did that got it to work!

[Matt Larson]

Try trashing your preferences (or atleast moving them to the desktop).

If you need help finding them, click on the Home folder in the left toolbar in the Finder window and go: Library>Preferences>Final Cut Pro User Data

The files you want to move to the desktop are:
Final Cut Pro 5.X Prefs
Final Cut Pro Obj Cache
Final Cut Pro Prof Cache (This might be Version 6 only)

Then try opening FCP again.