[Paul Escandon]

The FIRST thing I would do is trash my render files and start over. It’s possible for those to get corrupted or exhibit unexpected behavior. I would do that before I even trashed my preferences. When you’ve re-rendered, do you have the same problem?

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[Paul Escandon]

If they have both been nested then there is a good chance that the problem is there isn’t enough handle room on either side of the edit to allow for a cross fade. The solution is to open up the nested sequence and create some handles at the beginning and end of both clips (how much handle you create depends entirely on how long you plan for the cross fade to be). Once you have done that, you’re going to have to slip your nested clips in the original sequence accordingly to make it match up again like it should. Once you do that you’ve essentially added handles and this should allow you to crossfade to your heart’s content.

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Paul Escandon
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[Paul Escandon]

Hey – very glad it worked for you! These forums are great aren’t they?

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Paul Escandon
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John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I would say use the optical flow retiming in Motion 3 (if you’re working with FCS2).

Send a clip to motion by right clicking on it, then in the inspector tab in motion click the properties tab and click the timing twirly. Set the amount you want to slow it down to and change the frame blending mode to optical flow.

You’ll notice a little status window to the left of the transport controls as it analyzes your image to figure out how to best apply optical flow to create frames. This can take a long time – but it’s well worth it. Keep in mind that this can create huge cache files but once you let it analyze the clip you won’t have to do it again.

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Paul Escandon
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John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

That’s pretty strange…

I have a suggestion – not sure if this would give you any better results but it is what I would probably try in the event of having the same problem. Instead of capturing the offline clips from your browser – create a new bin and select everything on the timeline. Then drag all the clips from the timeline into that new bin you created. You should have just the clips in the timeline now in that bin. Try batch capturing these new clips and see if you have any better results.

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I briefly had a project that was shot in this format – I was able to edit it on Final Cut 5.1.4 but the only thing was at the time I could not capture it directly in Final Cut. I had to use a piece of software you can download from Apple called DVHSCap to be able to capture the HDV stream… and from there I was able to preserve the slow motion..

Now, I’m not sure if FCP 6 has fixed this capture problem – but I definitely know that you can consider DVHSCap a workaround that works. Google DVHSCap and you should be able to find the proper download package from Apple. It’s free.

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

The delete key that is above your return key should perform a “lift edit” – which does not close the gap. Holding shift while pressing that same delete key performs a ripple delete which closes the gap. You can also perform the ripple delete by pressing the second delete key which is next to the home and the end keys.

If pressing the delete key that is above the return key is somehow performing a ripple delete (which it shouldn’t by default), then you can simply map that key to perform a lift edit.

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Sounds like a good plan – the only thing is that I don’t have a Tiger retail install disc. I only have restore discs from my Intel Macbook – those restore disks won’t work right on a MacPro right? Or will they? I never really thought about that…

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Paul Escandon
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Oremus Productions
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Hi Chuck,

It’s my understanding that Final Cut Pro will not recompress images on output when you use File > Export > Quicktime movie UNLESS there is something within that specific clip that Final Cut needs to render. Obviously, when it renders due to an effect, a filter, or titles/graphics, it’s going to have to render and that would add a second generation of compression to the video. If, however, most of your video is straight cuts then no recompression happens unless you check the box “Recompress all frames” – but there’s no need for you to check that box.

What I’m saying only applies if you’re using the File > Export > Quicktime movie (not Quicktime conversion) and if you’re exporting to the same format that you captured in and that your timeline is in – in this case DV25.

Hope that helps.

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Paul Escandon
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Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

That’s definitely a problem you have.

What if you media managed first to recompress and copy only the media you’re using.. then collapsed all the video to as few track as possible… then try the XML output?

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