[Paul Escandon]

No I’m not talking about CMD+T or dragging and dropping from the timeline. I’m talking about option+clicking on a transition that is already on the timeline somewhere and dragging it to another clip which is essentially making a copy of that transition.

The problem is that depending on where you dragged your transition from in the original instance (the favorites folder or the transitions folder in the effects browser) you’ll either be able to do it or not.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Walter – what problems are you finding when you attempt to burn blu-ray discs from within Encore?

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Go check out the After Effects forum and look at the problems they’re having there already. MAJOR MAJOR issues with Quicktime 7.4 and After Effects. I would clearly stay away from this, like all new updates, until the community has had a chance to basically beta test it.

For now, stay away!

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Extended desktop means that it acts like a second monitor (ie more desktop space). This is different then when applications support video out through quicktime which means they can send a full screen signal out directly…

But actually, now that I think about this, you might be able to use Final Cut’s Digital Cinema Preview and it may in fact output full screen to the S-video … you’d just have to try it.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

The mini-DVI to s-video adapter doesn’t allow Final Cut Pro to output full screen video from it as it’s not a quicktime output source the way an IO card or firewire port would be. I think it only extends the desktop or mirrors the desktop. You could put the canvas on the extended desktop and output it S-video that way, but that’s not the same thing as getting a full screen output sent from final cut.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

You can give iStockvideo.com a try and see if any of the stock footage on there works for you. I’m a contributor to that site and I’ve done some backgrounds before.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

You either remove all the filters to a group of clips (which is not what you want since you have some legitimate CC filters on there) or do it manually. To make doing it manually easier I would turn the sync to open on the viewer and use the down arrow in your timeline to move through you clips. That way that clips filters will load in the filters tab of the viewer and you don’t have to manually double click each one on the timeline. It will just speed it up by a little.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I think you need to pin point how the footage on the DVX was shot. If you go frame by frame you should be able to determine the pull down mechanism. If you see interlacing in every frame, it’s shot in 60i. If you see 3 frames of progressive and 2 frames of interlacing, then it’s 24P but not advanced. I can’t remember the mechanism for 3:2:2:3 which is advanced pulldown but it will also be a mix of progressive frames and non progressive frames (but not 3 prog then 2 interlaced).

Either way you’re going to be mixing 30p and most likely some type of 24p format so something is going to have to give. It might be better not to remove any of the pulldown and just keep the pulldown pattern and work on the 30p timeline. You’ll have to try this and see what this looks like. If you say stuff looks slowed down – I’m not really sure what’s going on there. If you do want to remove the pulldown you can do that in cinema tools.

Oh, and you started by saying DVX, then said HVX at some point and again said DVX. Just to be clear – the problem footage was shot with a DVX right?

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Uncompressed HD at 8-bit or 10-bit is possible in Final Cut Pro and I’ve done it before. I never had the bandwidth to handle 10-bit reliable, so I’ve worked in 8-bit uncompressed for various projects.

The data rate is a massive increase from DV or HDV or even something like DVCPRO HD or ProRes 422. Uncompressed 8-bit HD footage runs at 121.5 MB/sec and 10-bit uncompressed HD runs at 182.3MB/sec. Because of this – it’s not so much Final Cut that would choke first it would be your hard drives. You need to have a very fast raid array to be able to write to your disks at these rates. If you don’t have a raid set up then forget about it.

To give you a comparison, DV and HDV runs at 3.6 MB/sec and DVCPRO HD 1080i runs at 11.75 MB/sec. So uncompressed footage will be tens of times bigger as far as file size is concerned.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I would say number 1 trash your prefs just to make sure. It never hurts.

Also, have you tried exporting the HDV to quicktime from Final Cut and then using Compressor to compress it to H264? This might be worth a try. If it still crashes at this point there might be a bigger problem with your system and/or probably a Quicktime problem.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University