[Paul Dickin]

Hi
I’ve used the Noise Reduction and Smart Noise Reduction plug-ins from Too Much Too Soon – they work quite well, but don’t expect too much (too soon… ;-):
https://www.mattias.nu/plugins/

[Paul Dickin]

[Andrew Saliga] “I see the odd result when scrubbing through NTSC footage in the PAL sequence before the effect is even applied. “
Hi
This is the significant part of Graeme’s response above:
[Graeme Nattress] “when you drop the NTSC clip into the PAL timline, it could look gnarly. That clip is only holding a place for the converter…”

Because of FCP’s ‘gnarly’ treatment of the clips in its Sequence, the Nattress ‘converter’ has to do the render on its own, away from FCP, and then dump its correctly rendered/field-blended output back into FCP’s timeline render files.

So you only get to see the results in full resolution AFTER the conversion has happened – its not clear from your posts whether you’ve ever let it get that far…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Well FCS 3 is still going to need all of Murch’s project asset workarounds because Media Manager won’t get fixed (and most of the rest of FCP 6 as well)… 🙁

Hey Steve said it himself after his first near-death diagnosis experience:
Death is …Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new… someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away… Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice…

So Steve’s going with that inner voice that Motion is where the whizz is at, and Color needs a new GUI so that all 8 secondaries can be worked on side by side simultaneously at the forthcoming keynote of Snow Leopard. Randy will show off iMovie 640K- ought to be enough for anybody…
Final Cut? Old. Clear that away!

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Quote:
I had this discussion with Randy Ubilos – lead architect for FCP – and on the basis of that conversation I gave up any hope of it ever changing from the current system. Since I don’t bother fighting battles that are pointless and have no chance of success, I’ve just decided to learn to live with it. Makes me happier, but storing scratch disks with projects (not global preferences) will be a high prioirity on my feature request list.

Written by Phil Hodgetts, over 6 years ago:
https://forums.creativecow.net/archivepost/8/309943

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Have you tried dragging its icon into the Device list?

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Thats what I have – an entry (greyed-out) for each individual drive, and a new entry for the RAID set, which is the operational one.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
What was the source of your capture?
I’ve seen what you describe on captures from archive footage – specifically telecined ex-film footage which has been converted from 24fps, with odd split-field behaviour due to the added pull-down.

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
When people ask ‘why do my lovely sharp graphics look great in the Viewer, but horrible in the Canvas’ the answer people get here is that the Viewer is a QuickTime-engine’s display window, whilst the timeline and Canvas are working with the FCP display-engine, on top of FCP’s editing-ready code-base.

Furthermore when you enable Real-time playback for the timeline, FCP reads-ahead the timeline and buffers the playback to the Canvas to allow the real-time to happen. Only it’s not quite real-time, there’s a slight buffering latency.

It’s that slight timeline read-ahead buffering that gives the slightly sticky scrubbing, I would guess…

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Slightly different, the Final Cut fraternity mostly use the AJA System Test to test data transfer rates for sustained transfer, from:
https://www.aja.com/products/software/

Or there’s Xbench:
https://xbench.com/

[Paul Dickin]

Hi
Shift-s is the Audio Scrub toggle.