[Mtbakerstu]

Here’s the answer:

You really need to look at video monitor to make a judge for output. Likely you were judging quality on the Canvas, a huge no-no in the FCP world. Still looking soft? Change your RT pop up menu in the Timeline to:

Safe RT
High Quality
Full Frame Rate

[Mtbakerstu]

Great call on the RT settings. That’s all there was to it, thanks!

Mtbakerstu

[Mtbakerstu]

Bogiesan, thanks for your thoughts. Perhaps directing a question to someone who has previously had input on a “Meridien discussion” would be useful. While I didn’t find the purest solution to this issue, I did find a fix which I’ve also pasted to the Apple FCP forum. See below:

Update!

While I was never able to get the Vid Track 2 title cards to stop shifting the edit decisions in Vid Track 1 when using the preset that is in tandem with the actual source video files (Avid Meridien Quicktimes at 23.98), I did find that by changing the Sequence Setting to DV/DVCPRO50 NTSC at 23.98 that I could drop the titles into Vid Track 2 successfully without any skewing of edit decisons. You now have to render the timeline, but a quick test of an MPEG2 export showed that there’s no denigration in image quality with using this setting.

So that’s the scoop. It seems that there’s no pure solution to this issue. Perhaps if there’s a way to generate title cards out of Avid that are importable into FCP, that would do the trick, but I haven’t taken my research that far.

Stuart

[Mtbakerstu]

Saw the above posts:

The flushing of prefs is not the issue, as we have several FCP workstations, and the problem is the same at all the work stations. (But we flushed the prefs anyway).

We are already doing insert edits, not overwrites, so this isn’t the issue either. The issue appears to be with the frame rate, as the offset grows exponentially as we move through the timeline.

mtbakerstu

[Mtbakerstu]

Hmmmmmmmm,

Any thoughts anyone. Is it possible to influence the title card to give it a 23.98 frame rate, prior to bringing it into the timeline?

[Mtbakerstu]

Thanks Don,

I followed the link, unfortunately no instructions for settings with Premiere Pro 1.5. Do you have any experience with the settings choices to make 24P advanced behave with this version of Premiere.

Thanks for the help, and reassurance.

Stuart

[Mtbakerstu]

Moo?