[Richard Chenoweth]

Hmmmm…. thanks Steve!

When at the beginning of the tape it displays that it’s plugged in and
indicates HDV/DV.

When I playback for a few seconds, it indicates DV-OUT instead.

I recorded this tape in HDV but at the very end I used it to dub from a VHS player
which kicked it into DV mode…

Did I mess up tape? Can’t figure out how to get it to HDV-OUT instead…

Thx!

[Richard Chenoweth]

Hi Tim,
I don’t know if you saw my post on this from a couple hours ago. My Canon Vixia is recognized
by the MacPro, The Vixia displays that it is, in fact, connected. iMovie will import from it easily, but
FCP can’t and won’t see it at all?

I have one more thing to try: The mini HDV cartridge I recorded some HD footage BUT I also
dubbed down some VHS tapes which came in as 12bit DV… I am wondering if by mixing up the source data like that maybe I am confusing FCP… Will try another tape.

Good luck! I suppose you tried all the zapping PRAM and throwing away Prefs, and so on…

[Richard Chenoweth]

It could be that FCP 6 is meant for an Intel-based MacPro, and not a PPC based G5.

I found that when I switched to MacPro, I had to upgrade FCP to 6. The FCP did work on G5, but it was very quirky.

But I have always had log and capture problems with FCP. I am submitting my own post on this in just a minute.

[Richard Chenoweth]

I’ve been reading all these threads on scrolling credits.

I made some scrolling text (five min.) in FCP6 and when it was in DVDPro Simulator it looked beautiful. When I burned the DVD it looked like hell. All fragged and wobbly and skittery. I had set it up with
“none” and then used Compressor.

Where is the Boris Plugin? It’s not in my “Extras” folder.

I also tried to make this scroll in AE CS3 and AE couldn;t even render it. Kept running out of memory!
I gave it 20 GB of scratch disk on my MacPro…

Any more hints for getting good scrolling text?

[Richard Chenoweth]

Thanks everyone…

Compressor problems fixed. The problem was really dumb. I was running FCP 5.0.4 on my new
Intel MacPro. I went to Apple Tech Support and the guy was really surprised it worked at all. So I had
to upgrade to FCS2. Now Compressor works fine and DVDPro works fine. Fairly easy in fact.

Thanks for all your help!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Hi all,

Perhaps this is the problem… I am using four processors to render an animation and Compressor has
some trouble being a “background process”… I looked up that error msg on web…

Does that sorta make sense?

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Thanks Dave et all… I will try this too.

When Compressor tells me the error of “can’t connect to background process”

I check my FCP with a command-option-esc and I see that FCP is “not responding”…

Thx for any more advice!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Hi Eric and Walter,

Thank you again.

I exported going directly into Compressor. I chose DVD Best Quality 4:3 90 min and everything
looks cool…

When I click “submit” I get this error: “Cannot submit batch, unable to connect to background process”

I got this a lot yesterday, part of the reason I was messed up with this… any more clues?

Many thanks!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Walter,

Thank you for your help and for getting back so quickly!

I will try it this way. But my Sequence Settings have to be set on something… ? I suppose that means
I should have it on “none” compression?

The movie is set-up at:

size: 720 X 480
aspect: NTSC DV 4:3
pixel aspect: NTSC – CCIR/DV (720 X 480)
dominance: lower
compressor: none

So I will take this into Compressor through the FCP export “Compressor Option”…

Thank you again!

Richard

[Richard Chenoweth]

Great tips Steve… Thank you!!

Richard