[Nick Meyers]

not in my experience.

my experience with DVCProHD is rather old:
back in 2006 i worked on a large project,
tens of thousands of clips, shared across 4-7 workstations.
no problems

nick

[Nick Meyers]

is it sound files that are showing the problem?
i can get a reconnect warning about “start/stop times” on on audio files if their sample rate is different to the sequence’s

nick

[Nick Meyers]

when you exported, did you have it set to “Self Contained” (bottom of the Save window)

i wonder if you made a reference file instead, and now there’s some problem accessing a render file?

i would go back to your sequence,
select all,
Control B (everything will be “un-enabled” or “muted”)
Control B again, (everything is re-enambled) and you will have flushed your renders

re-render the entire timeline COMPLETELY.
to do this, go to Sequence Menu, Redner All, make sureal the Video types, including “Full” are checked
then in the same menu, hit Both (or option R)

when rendered, export as self contained Quicktime move, Current Settings.

this is very belts and braces, with a fair bit of redundancy,
but should give you a clean un-corrupterd file.

then try to compress it.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i see.
i hardly ever use STP,
but i just tried using the Audio Stretching Tool.
could only make my file shorter not longer for some reason,
still it didn’t sound as good as the FCP AUPitch effect.

but i think the OP wants to change pitch with changing duration.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

i guess that clip wasn’t 1920×1080!

naw, don’t give up,
you;re so close.

you could just put the clips in the new sequence, Scale To Sequence,
and be done with it.

nothing wrong with 1280×720,it;s a good size for uploads o Youtube and Vimeo, if thats want you’re doing

up to you if you want t

if it were me, first, i’d check the clips properties,
maybe you have a majority of 1920×1080,and you by chance grabbed a 1280x720one first.
in the FCP Browser, you can see columns of al sorts of properties,
if it;s set to icon view,
right click on the background of the browser, and chose “View as List”

if you’re majority of clips is 1920×1080, you might as well finish at 1920×1080.

the 1280×720 clips will be scaled up, but if this not a very important project, or just for fun, or to show some event,
then maybe it’s ok

up to you how far back you want to go (re-process your original clips or not)

nick

[Nick Meyers]

well you dived in without knowing what you were doing!
see it as a learning experience!

why are you now putting your 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 sequence???
maybe you down converted them when you made prores versions?
that’s an odd thing to do, even if your final delivery is 1280×720

anyway, yes, the clips had to be scaled down when you put them into the smaller sequence.
they’ll carry that scaling into the new one, but its easy to remove it.
select all the clips, right click on them and chose “Remove Attributes”
chose “Basic Motion” from the window that appears.
dont chose “Opacity”or you’ll lose al the pen tool work you did!

if you are putting 1920×1080 clips in a 1280×720 timeline, however, this won’t work,
well it will, but the clips will be their FULL size, so they’ll all be oversized in the smaller sequence.

what you’d need in this case is the “Scale To Sequence” command in the Modify Menu.

with either method, you’ll lose any scaling effects you may have already added, and have to re-do them

while you’re at it you should open your sequence’s settings,
go to the Video Processing tab, and set Motion Scaling to “Best”
still won’t be the best scaling around, but it’s the best you’ll get within FCP.

[Nick Meyers]

well first thing would be to copy and paste the whole lot in one go from one timeline to the other.

but yes, you can select and move multiple clips

you can add marketers to either the sequence or individual clips,
hit m for marker

and if you have snapping turned on (the right-most button, top-right of the timeline)
clips that you are moving should snap to other clips or markers

nick

[Nick Meyers]

Dave, is the pitch effect in STP better than FCP?

ok i just tried it..
surprisingly, i think the FCP one is better.
much better in fact

nick

[Nick Meyers]

oh, and for exporting, it’s recommended that you do a simple export to QuickTime Movie, using your “Current Settings”
if you’ve rendered it should be quite fast.
THEN run that file though compressor.

nick

[Nick Meyers]

a likely possibility is that you dragged or copied all your clips to your timeline one go.

if you bring clips in individually, FCP recognises the clip’s format, and asks if you want to change the sequence settings to those of the clip.

if you bring more than one clip, WITH DIFFERENT PROPERTIES to the timeline, FCP will simply leave the sequence at it’s current settings, without asking you.

if you haven’t set FCP up, the defualt setting for new sequences is DV NTSC.
720×480 29.976 fps

you need to make anew sequence with the correct settings.
the simplest way to do that is to make anew sequence,
then edit ONE of your clips into it, chose the format you have most of, probably your 29.97, or 30 fps, not the 24.

FCP will ask if you want the sequence to match the clip, say YES,

now you can delete that clip
and copy your edit from your original sequence into this new one.

it’s likely you’ll have sync issues, so check for that.

nick