[Matt Lyon]

Paul, are you talking about importing or exporting EDLs? I only really have experience with exporting EDLs:

When I send an EDL to an online facility, I always include a separate spreadsheet listing all my speed effects shots (and any other effects for that matter). That way the online editor can manually check each clip in the show that has speed changes.

I also open my EDLs and eye check the timecode entries for all the speed effect shots, adjusting if necessary. In the past I’ve often had to adjust the “source out” TC, as it is usually wrong. (I’m not sure about FCP 7’s success or failure in this area–I haven’t used it much).

Hope this helps,

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

Glad to help and I’m happy you sorted it out. For whatever reason, my test image from GIMP needed to be set to 1.8 to display properly. But picking the “source” gamma option worked too. I’m not sure what the rhyme or reason is behind the inconsistencies we are seeing … But I guess our different results are a good example why ever user should do their own tests!

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

okay, I see where you’re coming from Tim. Yes, FCP doesn’t read color profiles, but it does read the embedded gamma flag. To be honest, I’m not sure how that flag is set to begin with. I thought it was part of the color profile, but I guess I’m wrong.

But I don’t think a bad gamma flag would account for the crazy toe/shoulder problem on your waveform readout.

Are you sure Photoshop is actually spitting out a perfectly linear ramp?

I did a little test here, making a ramp in GIMP, and it shows as perfectly linear on my software waveform monitor in FCP (I know, I know — the software scopes aren’t telling the full story).

Sorry I can’t be of more help, I don’t have Photoshop here to test with.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

Hi Tim,

Can you elaborate more on what you mean by “it displays incorrectly”?

Also, have you tried setting your system to be fully 2.2 gamma. You may get more predictable results: Set your display’s gamma to 2.2 in the control panel. Set Photoshop to work in sRGB color space, and embed your images with the same.

sRGB is fairly close to rec 709 color space, so it is a good starting point for still image creation.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

ah cool, thanks for the clarification Shane. I’ll be avoiding the “use existing” option from now on!

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

Jeremy – I also thought the same thing at first, but his drives are all definitely formatted “mac os extended”

Since first posting, I’ve been able to duplicate the same problem on my machine at work: FCP 6.0.6, os 10.4.11

Shane – “media destination” is definitely grayed out, unless I change the media mode to “copy” instead of “use existing.” Then I can specify an output folder for media.

It seems that “use existing” is the problem here. I think I’ll stick with “copy media referenced by duplicated items” from here on in.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

Thanks Shane,

Media Manager does not prompt us to select a destination. And the “media destination” box is grayed out.

Are you being prompted to select a destination after you select “ok” in the media manager window? Also, are you using the “use existing” option?

I’ll definitely try trashing prefs next time I’m at my friend’s place.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

I’m guessing this is because Qmaster needs a discreet file on disk (be it “self contained” or “reference”) in order for it to be properly segmented and sent to the various clusters.

When you send a file directly from FCP, Compressor has to call on the FCP software libraries… which seems to be the limiting factor here.

Maybe 64 bit FCP will correct this?

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

If you search the forum you’ll see that this question has been answered a lot. You can also look on the YouTube help pages and they have guidelines for compression settings.

“Frame Reordering” enables B-Frame compression (Bi-direction Predictive Frames, IIRC). Usually you will leave it on, but certain software or hardware is happier with B-Frames turned off. I think YouTube used to recommend disabling B-Frames, but I’m not sure if that is still true.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Matt Lyon]

That’s too bad it didn’t work… to be honest I’m guessing a bit here since I avoid nests in general. Sounds like the nest got corrupted or something…

When you load the clip in the viewer, what happens if you “insert sequence content” into a new timeline (commmand-F9). Worth a shot.

Or try exporting an XML and re-importing into a new project.

Again, I’m grasping at straws here, but maybe something will work.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto