Michael Gossen
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What codec are you using? What are your timeline settings? What are your RT settings? What titling tool are you using?
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How about adding titles in the letterboxed sequence independently? What if you take the content and nest that and bring your titles in on track 2 as clips? Better? And definitely check the 4:3 sequence settings, especially render settings…
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Are you talking about in your Canvas? Do you have it sized to 100%? Do you have any Overlays on?
Michael Gossen
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Where’s Raudonis? The bottom line is many companies including television, films, commercials, VFX, etc are embracing FCP all over the place. There is plenty of literature out there. Bunim/Murray Productions, Stardust Studios, TBWA/Chiat/Day (Apple Commercials?!) and on and on…
Michael Gossen
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Frustrating. What I always do is try to simplify. Revert back to an ‘Easy Setup’ before you output. Reinstall Kona Drivers. They just came out with version 6 like last week. That will help revert any little settings you might have changed over the course of trying to fix this. The bottom line is Kona works, FCP works, most of these things have been tested over and over. Try some defaults. It is really rare when things happen with true randomness. Maybe it just isn’t an easy pattern to spot. Stick with it. I think you can only adjust your capture offset by .5 frames in the device control… Good luck.
Michael Gossen
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Aha! I know what you are talking about. You’re gonna need to work on your limit effect. I was going to write out a long explanation, but I think the manual does a good job, so check out page 603 in the FCP manual.
Basically, keep working on your HSL selections. The eyedropper is only a place to start. Tip: You can add HSL values with the eyedropper by holding down ‘Shift’.
Good luck.
Michael Gossen
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First off, how is the audio encoded now? Are your ‘User Preferences’ set to play several tracks of ‘Real-time audio Mixing’ at low quality. If for some reason that were set too low, and you had several tracks, you would have to render. Coming from iMovie, this might be unlikely, but still worth a check.
Assuming all that is good, maybe ‘Media Manager’ would seem be a good solution here. Duplicate your sequence in FCP, then delete all the video, but leave all the audio. Go to File > Media Manager. Here, if you ‘Recompress’ your media and duplicate your sequence into a new project you will have another new copy of the audio files in the directory of your choice. It shouldn’t really matter what codec you use, just pick something with PCM audio.
Audio shouldn’t be too intensive on disk space, but if you need to save space, you can adjust the settings to ‘Delete unused media…’ But you should leave as long of handles as you can, I would suggest at least 5;00 to 10;00 seconds. Doing it this way, in the new sequence you should have all the audio, in place on the timeline, with original timecode. Then, copy everything and replace it in another duplicate of the original sequence. And if you leave handles, you (or another mixer) have room to adjust if needed. Hope that helps…
Michael Gossen
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What kind of project are you working on? Framerate, codec, etc? How are you monitoring? Describe the flickering. It sounds like you are talking about Secondary corrections (Limit Effect) if you are using ‘Edge Thin’, is this true?
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How about trashing your preferences? Users > [yourusername] > Library > Preferences > com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist AND Users > [yourusername] > Library > Preferences > Final Cut Pro User Data > [all the files] but NOT THE FOLDERS!
good luck.
Michael Gossen
Helium Digital Media