Michael Babbitt
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So I began to suspect my video cards (which doesn’t make me happy.) I noticed that if I shifted the Viewer back to the one display (the Gateway) it would work fine but whenever it was on the HP it crapped out.
To test, I went in, made sure the cards were seated properly. Then I switched the monitors a couple of times and ran a video test thru Tech Tools.
Well turns out, the Gateway works fine in either card. The HP2509b craps out on both cards.
My conclusion is that it’s actually the monitor not the card.
However, that doesn’t seem right because why would the monitor compromise FCPX performance?
Any thoughts?
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John, I used Digital Rebellion, it does a number of clean up type stuff with FCPX. I also use MainMenu a lot to keep things humming.
thx.
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Don, I did the preference trashing so many times I was dreaming about it. That is always one of the first thing I do when stuff goes wrong with FCPX or Motion.
I looked for any weird agent anomaly in AM but didn’t see anything so alas I couldn’t try that fix.
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All right,
So I’ve done a ton of reading on this over the last few days from the recommendations here. Gone all through the lynda.com sight and I actually own the After Effects Apprentice book so I went back to re-read all the sections on rendering I could.
Based on this, I took my footage through the test that Chris describes in one of the links that Todd supplied. As best as I can tell I do NOT have 3:2 pulldown in the footage. Every frame has movement in it and I don’t see the ‘tooth comb’ look.
I abandoned trying to use Animation as I was still getting the same error message and could not seem to locate a bad codecs and isolate it.
Instead I rendered to NONE for compression codec. It actually fully rendered some I’m wondering if this is a solution for now?
Also, I think I’m fubared on the frame rate thing. I rendered out a PNG sequence and I don’t get the same number of frames as the composition says are in there. I’m pretty certain this is probably because somewhere I screwed up frame rate but I don’t have the time to go back and fix it right now, much as that frustrates me. I’m still learning and feel I definitely need a better understanding of importing footage.
So aside from these two things I’ve at least got what I assume is a lossless render or at least as lossless as I’m going to get this time around?
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‘s what I get from reading email on my iphone. I now see Todd sent that last one. Much appreciated Todd!
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Dave,
Thank you! I will hit this right away and let you know how things go over the next few days.
Michael
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Dave, thank you very much for all this. I realize I still have a lot to learn about compression and rendering and I continue to try and read as much as I can.
Let’s see if I can clairfy some of this stuff for myself.
[Dave] So you have to remove the 3:2 pulldown to get your footage to 23.976, the actual NTSC film frame rate.
I did all of my editing (and capturing) in FCP. I then exported to AE where I did all my compositing. Do I need to do this pulldown in INTERPRET FOOTAGE or do I have to recapture everything (I hope I don’t have to do that.) If either of these is wrong, can you point me in the right direction (I’ve been reading all over the site and am having a bit of a confusing time of sorting through to this solution.)
[Dave] Dave’s Stock Answer #1:
I can’t seem to find any thing on how to convert to a different codec in AE. I find one for FCP (through media manager) but I don’t know what effect converting the codec in FCP after I’ve already done all my compositing?
[Dave} Bad idea. The codec to which you render has very little, if nothing, to do with the success of the render. So before you start down an all-advised path, you should read this:
One of the first things I came across on this site last year when I started reading it was Dave’s stock answer #3. I had no intention of actually using the conversion to MPG2-DVD from AE I was doing as a test to see if I could get a full render. I’d much rather use Compressor if I can get it to render out in Animation in AE.
Thank you again for all your time and patience. I know dealing with those of us who have just enough knowledge to be dangerous can be tedious but it does help and I’m hoping to get out of the ‘enough to be dangerous” phase as fast as I can.
Michael
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I agree with everything already said. Here’s an example with the settings I used. You can play with the curves to get a more or less blown out feel to it.
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David,
Yeah, I did a search to try and find something that would do what Sherlock does for the mac but couldn’t come up with anything.
So here’s what I’ve done so far beyond all the reading on the site and testing that way.
I completely restored my computer. Fresh OS install, fresh application install. Everything.
All of the footage was shot on a Canon XH-A1. 24 frames per second. All comps are at 24 frames per second. When I render using animation, in the render settings I have it set to use the comp frame rate. If I try to change it in the Animation setting it says to set it in the render setting so I just leave it alone.
Now here’s the weird thing. If I render at Half resolution it works fine. If I render at full, near the end of the render (I’ve tried two that are primarily only animations – very little actual footage – one is about 15 seconds long, one is about 90 seconds long) it always gives me this error.
If I render to MPG2-DVD at highest resolution (settings in render setting) it works fine as well.
I have multiprocessing turned off for the render.
Here are the settings of my memory and cache. I’m running CS 3.
The only reason I’m doing this is I’ve read everywhere that AE doesn’t have the greatest rendering capabilities and I was going to make an Animation render to be able to use in Apple’s Compressor for my DVD and web files. Should I just stick with AE and do the renders there?
Thanks for all your help.
Michael
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David, thanks for the info. I tried three of those from other posts I had found but I didn’t know about Sherlock.
Gonna try that and hopefully have some luck.
Michael