[Paul Spillenger]

Andrew,

This is all extremely clear and helpful. I thank you for taking the time. I can see that I need to take some time to understand how Photoshop “expands” and “interpolates” a photograph.

I see exactly what you’re saying about a 4×6 photo scanned at 300dpi giving me an 1800×1200 pixels image. Unfortunately, though that’s what I thought I was getting from my friend (the “client”), all my image files say 640×480. This is a mystery to me at present.

I am also reading between the lines of your response and hearing that the larger the print that’s scanned (at whatever dpi) the more pixels there are and therefore the better the image would look at 100% in FCP.

Thanks again for your help.

Paul

[Paul Spillenger]

Sorry. I have no idea. I only know that that particular chapter in my FCP is closed, and I am glad of it.

Good luck.

[Paul Spillenger]

If this is in fact a problem, then what would be the best quality compression it would be safe to use?

thanks.

[Paul Spillenger]

“Anything is possible.”

In other words, I’m totally screwed and there’s nothing I can do.

Great.

[Paul Spillenger]

Michael–

I am having the exact same problem. About one second out of sync. Using FCP 6.0.5 on DV-NTSC. How did you solve the problem?

Thanks.

[Paul Spillenger]

My new 4×3 NTSC sequence has just finished rendering. Instead of a 4×3 image, I have smaller 16×9 image overlaid on a 4×3 canvas! And the quality is awful. Everything is very fuzzy. Is this just the natural result of down-converting to SD? Is there any way around it? And why am I not seeing a full 4×3 image? And why, when I double click the 4×3 sequence clip to load it into the viewer, does it take me to my original 16×9 sequence? Arghh…..

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul Spillenger]

Thanks, Rafael.

Just to clarify: I can drag and drop between two sequences just by having them both open simultaneously? And when I do this, the clips will remain distinct?

Also, I was thinking I would export the new sequence using QuickTime Conversion (as Ken Stone recommends) and set the codec there as Pro Res. Is that any worse than setting the sequence’s render settings as Pro-Res?

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul Spillenger]

Elizabeth,

Yes, I fixed it — twice. And I’m afraid the news isn’t great. The first time, I fixed it by buying a completely new internal hard drive and reinstalling everything EXCEPT the new Quicktime, which I think was 7.3 then. I reinstalled an earlier version, which I found somewhere on the Apple site. Then, about a month ago, just before I upgraded to Final Cut Studio 2, I installed the latest QT, which an FCP pro I know told me was now bug-free. He lied. Back to green screen. Then when I installed FCS 2, it went away. This is the only permanent fix I know of that allows you to use the current version of QT.

Good luck!

Paul

[Paul Spillenger]

So there seems to be a difference of opinion: Some say you can just do a clean install of the OS and FCS on your original boot drive. Others say you have to get a second internal boot drive and do the OS and FCS (and everything else) install there. Who is right? What is the problem with not taking Door #1, Monty?

[Paul Spillenger]

The posts are in the Final Cut Pro forum.