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Under your Sequence Settings, go to the “Video Processing” Tab and change the “Process Maximum White” pulldown from White to Super White. You’ll also want to set it to Render as 10-bit in the same window.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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In your User Preferences, Real Time Audio Mixing defaults to 8 tracks. Set that higher and you should have to render less. I have a similar system to yours and I set it to 14 tracks and never seem to have a problem.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Final Cut has a decent built in Bad TV effect to add scan lines and warping. If you dial that in subtly, desaturate and play with your three way color corrector a bit you should be in good shape. Likewise, that clip had film damage, so you could look for a filter for that as well, or download the 8mm footage that Andrew Kramer has available at VideoCopilot.net and lay that over the top with the multiply composite mode applied, and you’re good to go.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Yeah, it’s a bit of a bummer. I recently bought an Alpha Track to aid in mixing, and I thought it was a problem with the Alpha Track until I realized Final Cut was doing it in the Audio Mixer without the Alpha Track. A bummer indeed.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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MPEG Streamclip will do a good job if there isn’t a copy protection on the DVD.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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More information will help. How much ram? G5 or Mac Pro? What version of software? What are the drivers installed with your capture hardware? (Or are you capturing via firwire) What format are you digitizing?
Two tips of general system maintenance that may help, in lieu of the above information, would be to trash your FCP preferences. There are tons of posts, and kenstone.net also has this procedure described. Also, repair your disk permissions and then try restarting your system. If those don’t work, drop another post with your system specs.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Did you use the Log and Transfer tool? It’s most likely what you need. It will prompt you to transcode the material to either Apple Intermediate Codec or ProRes422. I would recommend ProRes.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Are you viewing out of a broadcast monitor, or just your canvas window? The other thing to keep in mind, as you convert your HDV to DV is that HDV (all HD formats) have an Upper Field dominance (Odd) and DV NTSC has a Lower Field dominance (Even) so if this wasn’t adjusted when you converted in compressor, that could account for it.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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23.976 at 1280×720. It was very strange, it only happened on one episode, even though the GFX where fine in previous and prior episodes. They were created using AE CS3 on a G5. For whatever reason, when they were exported from AE using ProRes(HQ), they stuttered, but when exported straight out of the viewer and brought back in, they worked fine.
It hasn’t happened at all this season, just last, so I hope I never have to see it again, but it was scary at the time!
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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I would check your RAM, since 10 GB doesn’t sound evenly stacked. We recently had a MacPro with 10 GB of Ram. 4 2Gb modules, and 2 1 GB modules. Our problem was, the High Quality tab on RT Extreme was greyed out. When we removed the 2 1GB modules, we were able to play back at High Quality.
The other thing I’d like to know, is what is your raster size? Is is 1280×720 square pixels, or 1920×1080 square? Likewise, what is your sequence setting? Here’s another thing to try, we had playback issues with AE Pro Res quicktimes that were brought straight into Final Cut. When we pulled them into the Viewer and exported them straight as Pro Res quicktime movies and brought them back in, they played back fine when render. I don’t know why it worked, but it did.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks