Mike Kahn
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Based on the fact that Avid does not support Snow Leopard yet, we downgraded all of our systems back to 10.5.8 and put the Avid Unity client on each machine. Have not had many problems with using the unity, however, renders have to be done locally. For us that’s not a huge deal since there is not much rendering happening.
Let us know if you get Snow Leopard working with unity.
Mike
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I was not in the room when it crashed but he told me is just totally locked up. This is actually the second time that I have installed the OS (the first was to correct multiple problems and I thought that I had).
I am installing from a drive which I made through Carbon Copy Cloner with 10.5.8 and FCP 7.0. I then do all the updates from the machine. This is the exact same drive I have used for the other machines (2 others).
On Monday, I plan on swapping the internal HD’s between this computer and another editor on the same project to see if the problem follows the computer (hardware problem) or sticks with the internal (OS Problem).
Mike
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Are all three the same compression and frame rate? What are the specs of the media? What version of FCP are you using?
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Unfortunately this is not the issue.
I was able to map “match multiclip frame” to the button bar and it would reveal a frame, but it was not the correct frame as where the playhead was parked. Further still, I mapped reveal master multiclip and when opening from the browser, it seems to be a totally different clip then the match multiclip that loads into the viewer.
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Do a google search for “trash preferences FCP7”
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Rafael-
You really need to start reading posts before responding.
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In the canvas window, use the pull down on the far right and make sure that you have a check next to RGB instead of alpha.
You may also want to trash your preferences and see if that helps.
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I am working on an XDCAM project and brought everything in through Log and Transfer with all metadata in the XDCAM codec. What exactly are you trying to do?
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Just a side note, if you have mostly DV footage, this is going to take forever. You can also use a Kona and batch capture while upconverting. This might be best now that I think about it.
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Here’s what I would do.
1) Make a new project and drag your final sequence into it.
2) Duplicate the sequence and delete all audio. Call this DV Timeline
3) Create a new bin called Media
4) Select all video clips and drag them to the Media bin
5) Highlight all and set the label for all the clips to None to get rid of any label colors that may be applied
6) Sort your clips by compressor and apply a label to all your DV media
7) Toggle the Clip Keyframe button in the bottom left of your sequence and it will now show you all your DV footage as the color of the label you applied.
8) Now that you can visually see what clips are DV and need to be made into Prores, delete all clips from the timeline that are not DV. Make sure to keep all the clips in the exact right place in the timeline by deleting the clip but not having the timeline shift. Now you are left with just a timeline of all your DV footage in the exact correct places in the timeline as they are in your master timeline.
9) Right click on the DV Timeline sequence in the browser and select Media Manager.
10) Select “Recompress” and set your media to whatever Prores format you need. Uncheck “Include master clips outside of selection”. Check “Delete unused media” and set 3 second handles. Base media files names on existing. Check “Duplicate selected items”, uncheck “include nonactive multiclips”. Set your media destination.
11)Press OK and save your new project to wherever you’re projects live. Name it DV Upres. Hit save and walk away for a while.With this, Compressor will take each clip from the timeline, upres it up to your prores setting and will create a new timeline with your clips in the exact places but in prores.
After all the compression is finished:
1) Bring the new DV Upres sequence into the original Final Project
2) Open the DV Upres sequence and set your playhead at the first frame. Copy the timecode and paste in the Final Sequence so your playheads are in the same exact frame for both sequences.
3) In the DV Upres sequence, select all your clips and moved them to a video layer higher then any in the Final Sequence (ie: if you have media in tracks V1-V3 in your final sequence, put the DV Upres media on V4)
4) In the DV Upres sequence, select all and copy. Paste on your new video track in the Final Sequence
5) Now all your DV Upres footage should be above your old DV footage. These shots should all match up perfectly and all you need to do is overwrite the old with the new.Whew, hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Mike