[Paul Johnson]

I’ve been using Trans International for about 4 years, upgraded 7 Macs and never had a problem. They are in Orange County so I get my RAM next day after ordering. Just recently bought the 8GB upgrade kit for my Mac Pro 4x3Ghz, its been working great for the last few weeks.

If you order from this link you get a little discount. I think it’s the MacWorld discount link.
https://www.transintl.com/store/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=60

“Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

–Albert Einstein

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks guys, its all working now. It was a naming issue, but not long names. I never noticed before but the lower thirds which were .mov’s had the same name as the master clips(the interviewee’s name), but were in a different folder so I never had issues until MM tried to create new clips.

Thanks for your help. I agree with the hard drive solution and I normallly do that but right now I’m sitting on 10+ bare drives of several year old pojects and I’m trying to consolidate. I probably don’t need the timeline anymore since I already have a QT, but I like to keep stuff.

Thanks again,
Billy

FCP 6.0.1, G5 2.5 Quad, 8GB Ram,AJA Kona 3,AJA IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Yes, I’m archiving the finished timeline and deleting all unused media. I’m taking this project from about 85GB’s down to 5GB, but a few clips won’t copy. The master clips are large interviews. The interviews are all cut up in the timeline. So via media manager that large master clip has been chopped into several small clips. But one clip out of several of the interviews won’t copy, its says it can create a offline, but that doesn’t really help since I’m assuming I’d have to copy that large master clip over to the archive for it to link up. Sorry, long story, but its driving me crazy. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Billy

FCP 6.0.1, G5 2.5 Quad, 8GB Ram,AJA Kona 3,AJA IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Hi Jeremy,

The drive I’m copying from has 150GB available and the raid I’m copying to has 2TB available. I also tried deleting my preferences, to no avail.

FCP 6.0.1, G5 2.5 Quad, 8GB Ram,AJA Kona 3,AJA IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks for all your help, everything is working now.

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

The lower third is 720×480 field is none, should it always be lower(even)? Strange some of the graphics I received are lower(even) others are none.

Also when I drop my footage into the Uncompressed 10bit timeline it doesn’t look as good. It looks somewhat blurry, all of the credits that were created within FCP look terrible. Maybe I’ll try the nattress route for a quick fix.

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks Jeremy,

I put it in the Uncompressed 10bit timeline and no banding issues, serious jagged edges with the logo but the color issue is gone. I own the Nattress plugin and will try it since recaptue is not an option right now. I will reconsider a DV timeline in the future. Thanks for your help.
Billy

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks for the YUV tip, I forced FCP to render in RGB without any improvement. Talked to my motion graphics guy and his FCP is set to YUV. He didn’t think the difference between RGB and YUV would cause such a serious distortion as the problem I’m having. I dunno, I just know I have one day left till my deadline.

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

Thanks Shane, I think I’ve seen that video before.

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA

[Paul Johnson]

To me that isn’t an issue. Drop DVCPRO HD footage in a DV timeline and it’ll be letterboxed. For a piece like this going back and forth between letter box and 4:3 isn’t a problem.

FCP 5.1.1, G5 2.5 Quad, Kona 3, IoLA