[Mike J.]

Thanks,

I understand this process… the folks I’m working for I mentioned could have actually done this with the FCP DV outputs from their timeline with a +1 field and 486 timeline and render.

But, that did not happen and it’s too late for them.

The effects house moved on with the softness issue – apparently not noticing and not including such extra efforts in their estimate – and too much footage has already been delivered as is.

I had just asked them to purse a setting in AVID to correct this if there was one. Perhaps a compromise of relinking to footage a second time with different import settings could help everybody out.

Thank you for your thoughts and confirmations.

[Mike J.]

Yeah…

I updated from 4.5 last week.

[Mike J.]

I’ve trashed preferences and I’ve rebuilt the quicktime reciepts to 7.0.3 as well.

Just to let you know that…

[Mike J.]

Yes, that is the answer.

Even though I had 7.0.3 of Quicktime, I still had to throw the receipt away, download it again, and reinstall.

Thank you!

Mike

[Mike J.]

Also… you’re playing from 7200 rpm drives…. LONG FILES (15- 20 minutes or more )chained on muliple drives will lose playback synce (not real sync..only in playback) when you work this way. When you stop the playback, it starts in sync again.

It’s just too much much work to play all that at exactly the same time with those setups.

As mentioned… AUDIO MIXDOWN will render the mulple tracks (if there are any) into a contanstant file that will playback smoother because it isn’t searching through multiple drives and chains to load the files.

Mike

[Mike J.]

As I mentioned, this is FILM/Filmmaking term.

By changing the flag of an audio sample rate vs converting you can force it to play back the 48k file either faster or slower.

In film, audio works in either a PULLDOWN of PULLUP state when working in video. Tricking an audio file stamp will allow programs like Final Cut Pro to play an audio file slower or faster depending on needs.

If you’re not a film person this isn’t going to make a great deal of sense I’m afraid.

Mike

[Mike J.]

I don’t think you’ve actually created an alpha channel in FCP. Did you key out, luma out, mask out the elements that will become the keyed out portions before exporting as ANIMATION + alpha

If you’re sure there’s an alpha….next, try going to the FCP selection, MODIFY/ALPHA/ STRAIGHT

Mike

[Mike J.]

No, the Quicktime Pro is just annotations and metadate informational…Not really useful in this case. I need something more advanced, but thanks for suggesting…

An audio file has a sample rate stamp of say, 48000k sample rate. It tells other programs it’s rate.

I want to alter that sample rate stamp, BUT NOT convert the audio file to a different sample rate.

For instance, a 48k file, the sample rate is 48k, but when you alter to the stamp to 48048 instead of 48000 it forces a speed change in the program it’s used in.

It’s a true film proceedure or the most part.

[Mike J.]

Any thoughts on a program that you can add/alter the data on an audio file like changing the sample rate data….NOT converting the sample rate. Just changing the numbers.

Mike

[Mike J.]

Thank you ..I believe this is exactly what I needed…. I’ve tried so many google searches and never came up with this..

THANKS!!!