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Paul Cummings
July 29, 2009 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Nesting/Resizing Quality Issue

So is there any way to nest the sequence and not do a blowup? Nest it to different settings?

I’m confused though..I don’t think I scaled it down. For instance…the opening shot has 9 small windows in the viewer. Those are all scaled down to say…30% of their original size (the motion tab confirms this). If I grab one of those and make it larger the quality stays fine..cuz I only scale up to around 50-60%. But if I make ALL those a nested sequence and scale them at once, the quality degrades.

How do I add a reel#?

Honestly…the project is SUCH a mixed bag. Some are clips. Some are photos. It’s hard to explain, but if you want to see the commercial, it’s here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0mzG06K3fw

It may help you to better understand what I’m dealing with. You can see the mass amount of content submitted from users in an online thing that the client was having (confusing, I know).
Paul Cummings
July 29, 2009 at 12:02 pm in reply to: Nesting/Resizing Quality Issue

I guess my followup question is why does Nesting result in quality loss? Shouldn’t it just be reference the original clips nested within the new timeline?
Paul Cummings
July 29, 2009 at 11:58 am in reply to: Nesting/Resizing Quality Issue

Hmm…

That yielded some interesting results. For some clips it worked, for others it didn’t? Some it totally fit to the dimensions, but others still stayed locked into the spots they were.

For instance there is a scene with 9 small windows on the screen at the same time. Those ones didn’t really proportionately move and scale.

There might be something here though! Thanks you for your suggestion.

Any other tips??
Paul Cummings
October 17, 2007 at 12:19 pm in reply to: “This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

thanks! i will try that…ill lose some work (cuz i have been working on the mac pro for a few days), but at least ill recover some of it. assuming this works.
Paul Cummings
October 16, 2007 at 9:18 pm in reply to: “This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

it is the same version of final cut.
Paul Cummings
October 16, 2007 at 4:05 pm in reply to: “This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

I actually didn’t have an autosave set for this! whoops. I know, i know…..i had turned it off just briefly for a separate project and when I set this one up, I completely forgot to set it back on, so there is none. i am an idiot.

And yes, I have no problem opening other files or starting new files.

One other brief piece of info (no idea if this is worthy of mentioning, but I’m throwing it out there):

When I transferred all my docs, files, applications etc to my new computer, before opening final cut I had to upgrade to a newer version of quicktime before it would let me work. That seemed weird…?

Thanks again for any/all help!
Paul Cummings
October 16, 2007 at 3:33 pm in reply to: “This project is unreadable…” error message (I’ve tried ALL the troubleshooting methods)

I started working on the project on my old mac (G4 Quicksilver), but have since worked on it on this new system (Mac Pro), for a few days. I can try opening it up on my old computer and get back to you.

Let’s say it is not the media, but is a corrupt file. Is there any course of action I should take?

Also, this happened directly after a crash of Final Cut.

Thanks so much!