[Neal Boyle]

Thanks Sascha,

That seems to have done the job. I also just noticed that the assistant had set the application and stills cache to 100%, this could also have been a factor since I’m using a lot of archive photos.

Neal

[Neal Boyle]

I’ve transcoded all the Prores media to DV Pal. Set up a new project and dragged the edited sequences into this project. To re-link to the new DV footage I’ve tried:

Swapping the DV footage into the pro res folder. The footage links to the DV media and I changed the time line to DV Pal but it still crashes. The media looks to be still linked to the old project. The assistant editor had colour coded the media clips in the previous project and this is still showing on the time line even though it is now reading from the new DV footage.

So I’ve made a new sequence and copy passed an edit into it, then manually re-edited the footage over the original edit, slow tedious but now it plays ok and doesn’t look to be referencing the original project.

It doesn’t answer the question of what caused the problem but I can get on with the job. I have 8 sequences with about 2 hours of heavily edited multi-track timelines to get through. Is there a faster way to do this?

N

[Neal Boyle]

Ok, academic is out. I can’t justify the prices people are asking for 7, its one OS upgrade away from redundancy so maybe it’s time for final cut X or Adobe.

[Neal Boyle]

Maybe I misunderstood the AVC Intra encoder plugin for Compressor (released in 2010), this sounds like a export encode option or a compression setting based on AVC Intra:

Panasonic released a free plug-in for Studio’s Compressor app, which lets you output a Final Cut Pro edit using Panasonic’s top-tier AVC-Intra codec. With Panasonic’s free plug-in, you can use Compressor to encode a master file of your Final Cut edit using AVC-Intra as the codec, and then deliver your show as a master-quality QuickTime file.

I shoot on HDCAM tapes, the good old days eh. The workflow is online with ProRes and then, if I’m understaing the Panasonic plugin, export as Quicktime with AVC Intra100 compression?

So that is what I want to be able to do.

back to the question, can an academic version of FCS3 accept plugins? Academic versions seem to be cheaper than the ‘full’ versions and as you rightl;y said Final Cut (6/7) are dead, but not gone, so it’s really not worth paying the prices that some people are asking on the net.

[Neal Boyle]

Rafael is right, NTSC plays fine here in Europe on PAL equipment, just don’t enable a Region Code.
Some clients want PAL and NTSC DVDs, no idea why, makes no difference but you get to charge a bit more.

Neal

[Neal Boyle]

I know nothing of sound mixing, I send everything out to an audio post company. This was a one off and as in all cases want everything to be perfect, but audio post is a gap in my knowledge. I guess its time to open soundtrack and muck around.

Thanks for the tips.
N

[Neal Boyle]

Hi Chad,

I have played around with my Sequence settings and find that if I set the sequence to Apple Prores 422 scopes work, (with Video Processing set 10-Bit high precision YUV). That’s even though the footage was captured as Blackmagic 10 bit unc. Kevin this setting gives me back the ‘video scopes playback’ option in the RT menu.

So between Kevin, Rafeal and Chad and we have a solution, cheers guys, I owe you all a pint so if your ever in Ireland…

A last question: should I capture in Unc 10 Bit 422 and avoid the Blackmagic 10 bit option an set my seq to Apple Prores 422? I thought that Apple Prores 422 was only for HD footage? The question is will this produce a technically sound picture on digibeta (SD)? Don’t want a broadcaster tekkie giving me grief when he does a quality control check on a master tape.

Neal

[Neal Boyle]

Hi Kevin,

When I make an online project the menu I don’t get a “Video Scopes Playback” option in the RT menu on the timeline. In an off-line project I do (I use PAL DV for offline).

Rafael, I just tried a new project (PAL SD 10bit) with no captured media and made a sequence with SD PAL bars and text, so all generated internally and the same issue occurs with the darkening, no scope and the RT Menu not giving the “Video Scopes Playback” option. So it’s not the footage.

Could it be the decklink card? The system says all software is up to date. The media drives are fine and the hard disk is ok, (just ran disk warrior.

I’m on FCP Version 6.0.6

Neal

[Neal Boyle]

The source media is from a HD CAM (a Sony 730s HD CAM) so it’s Pal 50i. But it’s captured as standard def through the Decks SD SDI output. So I’m not onlining HD but SD in 10 bit uncompressed.