Nicole Haddock
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Actually, you never answered my question about how you are making the freeze frames and if you’re setting ins and outs in your timeline, which might not seem like it has anything to do with the price of tea in China, but it does. If you posted a screen grab like I suggested, we all might be able to help you more. A picture is often worth a thousand words as we all know.
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I would start off by trashing your preferences- FCP Rescue works well on the 10.4.x systems/Power PC.
Make sure you have alot of free space on your internal drive. Make sure the scratch discs are set to that internal drive.How big are the JPEGs? What’s the ppi? As a general rule of thumb, I do not work with JPEGs in FCP. I make them TIFFs. Maybe it’s superstition, but I think FCP works better with TIFFs than it does JPEG. Try doing a conversion and seeing how that goes. Have you messed with the sequence settings/video processing and flipped the render settings to Best or render in something other that 8-bit YUV? What are your sequence settings and what compressor is being used?
As an alternate, I would suggest doing this in Motion or After FX, but not sure how viable an option that is for you.
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We need more information to help you.
What are your machine specs? RAM? OS? QT version? Processing power, etc?
What are the video specs that you’re working with? How did you ingest?
What’s your timeline sequence compression at?
What type of drives are you working off of/what type of connection is it?And have you trashed the preferences lately?
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It’s just FCP being fussy. I’ve seen it before, rarely, but usually this solves if the preferences zonk, render trash does not-
Copy all the footage in your timeline. Open a new project, new sequence, paste everything in there. Reset your scratch discs to somewhere new. Render, export to self contained quicktime. See if that works.
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It’s being uploaded shortly 🙂
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Oh lordy. Do you have the original file structure in place, ie- not just the LASTCLIP.txt and the .MXF files? And how exactly are you importing them?
As to the DV/HD question, was the DV shot anamorphic, 24pA on something like the DVX-100? 24p on the DVX and 24p on the HVX are 2 different birds. More details are needed on all fronts 🙂
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How exactly are you exporting your quicktime file? What menu options are you going through? And have you tried trashing your render files?
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Last time I tried, it was 1080 DVCProHD off the HVX. Maybe it was a drive issue (was on my RAIDed SATA…), but it was mostly to see what would happen since we deal with 720p24 95% of the time. Then the new MacPro booted the G5 and I haven’t looked back 🙂
ETA- either way, I don’t believe one of the reponses about upgrading to FCS6 is necessary!
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Not that I’m aware of, total PITA, but just disable tracks 3 and 4 when you start punting stuff to your timeline.
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As others have said, it’s likely you may be working with the wrong Easy Setup. Everything in your sequence has to match EXACTLY the settings on your clip. And FCP5.1 doesn’t have that nice feature where it will change the settings for you.
However, you don’t need FCP6 to make life beautiful. I’ve edited HVX200 footage on PowerPC macs with FCP 5.1 just fine. The key is to not shoot 1080 anything. Any G5 machine will choke on that footage even during playback, end of story. 720p24, you’ll be fine. I routinely used to edit 720p24 on a Powerbook G4 with 1.5GB of RAM, no rendering needed. What’s the need to shoot 1080 anyway?I would recommend using FCP Rescue (make sure to download the right version for your FCP) to help in zonking the preferences but also storing preferences once you hit on the right easy setup. Sounds like it will make your life much easier. If you stick with 720p, you should hit a good stride.
For 720p24 footage-
If you run the easy setup for HD, 23.98, DVCProHD – 720p24, you should be good to go.
Frame size- 960×720, aspect ratio same
Pixel aspect ratio- HD 960×720
Field Dominance- None
Editing timebase- 23.98
Compressor- DVCPRO HD 720p60 (counterintuitive with all the 24p business going on, I know, but trust FCP).Try that out, I have a feeling you’ll be relieved 🙂