[Phil Gibson]

That’s even less encouraging. I was hoping it was something with the New Mac Pro’s AMD cards and just ironing out bugs with that.

I used FCP for YEARS and it certainly had its share of bugs, but it seemed to me that whenever there was a bug, it was consistent and repeatable so you could figure out how to work around it. The Adobe bugs seem to appear and disappear at random and stuff has been broken with program updates in major ways (the insert loud buzz for every audio transition at the head of an audio clip one was wonderful).

Just out of curiosity, what is the footage you are working with that gave you the random frame? Maybe it is something with ProRes or QuickTime based footage?

[Phil Gibson]

That is unfortunate.

Hopefully things get updated on both the Apple and Adobe side of things because some of us that use these machines on a daily basis are beginning to regret not going the PC with CUDA route.

[Phil Gibson]

Well, I think we are looking at vastly different versions of the Scenarist then. I’m running SD 3.2, and the script output doesn’t look like xml and there is no global setting for resolution that I can find. Every asset has a listing for resolution and height and width.

Any ideas?

example from the top of the scp file:

Object=Version
{
Name=MODIFIER VERSION
Major Version=3
Minor Version=2
Bug Fix Version=0
Data Format Version=5
Build Version=20071031
Edition Version=1000
}
Object=Data Folder
{
Name=Data
Data=List
{
Item=AC3 Audio
{
Place Holder=No
Name=15-Dolby Digital Professional 2.0
Resolution=NTSC
Drop Type=Non-drop frame
Data Start Time=00:00:00:00
Data End Time=00:20:44:22
File=G:\15-Dolby Digital Professional 2.0.ac3
Audio Type=AC3
Bit rate=192000
Channel=2 : 0
LFE On=No
Bsmod=complete main
}
Item=Video
{
Place Holder=No
Name=15-MPEG-2 CBR 6.5
Resolution=NTSC
Drop Type=Non-drop frame
Data Start Time=01:00:00:00
Data End Time=01:20:44:22
File=G:\15-MPEG-2 CBR 6.5.m2v
Width=720
Height=480
Is Encoded=Yes
Encode Type=MPEG 2
Size=720 x 480
Aspect Ratio=4 : 3
Picture Structure=Frame Structure
GOP Size=15 frames
GOP Structure=N/A
Bit rate=6500000
Average Bitrate=6000000
Minimum Bitrate=4000000
Bitrate Type=Constant
Icon Time=00:00:00:00
Line21 Switch1=No
Line21 File1=
Line21 Switch2=No
Line21 File2=
}

[Phil Gibson]

Thank you very much for your response. So, all I need to do is change every instance of “Resolution=NTSC” to “Resolution=PAL” and that should be all I need to alter, correct?

Thank you very much.

-Phil