[Melvin Royster]

Hey Roli, yeah I’m going thru export->send to ->compressor. And as soon as I drop the compression setting down on the file, the program freezes and I get the spinning wheel icon.

And Nick, yeah I downloaded the app you sent me, and still nothing. Unless I’m not doing something right w/ that app. But I downloaded it, installed it, then clicked the repair button. It goes thru the whole repair, and gives me a pop up at the end saying “you may need to allow up to 30 seconds for Qmaster services to start up again.”

I ran the program multiple times, waited 30 seconds and tried the program again, and still nothing.

Any more suggestions? Thanks

[Melvin Royster]

Thanks, yeah sorry about that, I’m looking for the best codec. Now will the DVCPro50 work well in FCP?

I originally had ripped the DVD using H.264 but I realized its only a finishing codec. Then I tried the DV-NTSC codec from that H.264 file, and saw I was loosing some quality, but will ripping it from the DVD at DVCPro5 be better?

Thanks again

[Melvin Royster]

Thanks Zane. So I realized that I stopped the deep scan from my laptop and moved the drive to my company’s Mac Pro, the scan went quicker than ever from my laptop. So hopefully that has something to do with the files being corrupted. What do you think?

Also, after I tried to trouble shoot everything myself by initializing the drive, trying to repair it, and trying to erase it, I gave the deep scan another try on the Mac Pro (this was all before I read your post), and its taking longer than ever. Seems like its finding more files, but over night, its only up to 2.35%. Is that normal? How long should the scan take? Its a 500 Gb hard drive.

So I should also try to get a different external case, preferrably a Firewire 800? Is there anyway it can be the external case and not the actual drive? This is my second drive that crashed.

Thanks for your help.

Melvin

[Melvin Royster]

Thanks. Ok, so I thought I knew how to shoot it. Our station doesn’t have green screen capabilities, so I thought my best bet would be the cross axis model. But as long as they don’t cross each other, and the shot is locked down, everything should be ok, right? I might have to make it just a two mutli-tasking job instead of three.

I was thinking it might be a blending effect on the timeline, but I wasn’t sure either.

Melvin

[Melvin Royster]

Cool. I get it now. I kinda figured that was the problem, but wasn’t sure. So that way, the project won’t need to be rendered right? No matter if it wasn’t ingested into my computer, but rather imported?

Also, is it a standard operating procedure for FCP to re-create new final cut pro documents (render files, audio files, all caches, and auto-saves) after they’ve been deleted? I had my scratch disk and all caches set to my external drive, transfered the ones from my internal drive to the external, and deleted the older ones so I can save room on my internal drive. But FCP keeps re-creating new render files and auto-save files. Is there anyway to get around this, so I dont’ eat up my internal drive ?

Thanks

Melvin

[Melvin Royster]

Ok, sorry about that. I’m not too familiar with the ins and outs, but its .wmv and .mov clips that I downloaded from the internet. The project’s easy setup is a DV NTSC.

I was trying to compile certain clips I got from online, some wmv and some mov, put them on a timeline. Everytime I put the clips on the timeline, I got a orange and red bar. The timeline is about an hour long with all of the clips edited down. It took a couple of days to render out the orange bars, b/c I thought I needed to do so in order for it to play smoothly to tape or DVD recorder rather.

Now could it have something to do with my Autosave? After 25 mintues, is the program is trying to autosave, but can’t do so and play from the timeline? Its the same spot everytime. Or could it be that I have low space on my internal drive?

My internal drive has 4.1 Gb left on it(out of 111GB), but the clips are coming form my external drive. And everytime my internal drive got low, I transfered all the render files associated with the project onto my external drive to free up space. But everytime I did, FCP created a new set of folders onto my internal drive.

[Melvin Royster]

I had to render the clips, I had no effects on them, but I guess because I didn’t actually ingest the clips into my computer, it had to be rendered. Its the orange bar, and a red bar for the audio. I was told that if it wasn’t ingested into my actual computer that would require it to be rendered.

[Melvin Royster]

Oh I’m sorry, I meant to say after waiting so long for the timeline to render, I finally have the timeline rendered out so I can export it to tape. I can’t figure out why it stops after only 25 minutes. Any suggestions?

Melvin

[Melvin Royster]

Ok, so I found a work-around for the capture clip feature. After I set an “in” point and an “out” point, I select “clip,” and as the camera is rewinding back to the “in” point after it shuffles to find the “in” point, I forced it to rewind back it to the actual “in” point by holding the rewind button on my camera. So I guess I have to do this everytime? Wow.

Melvin

[Melvin Royster]

The Error message says: Error Compiling Movie; Unknown Error. It’s the same error when I’m trying to render the footage.

Melvin