[Rob Alexander]

I take it that you don’t know then Dave.

[Rob Alexander]

Thanks, but I think this is a more fundamental problem. I’ve used title 3D a lot (although more with 4.5 than 5) and not experienced this. I’m operating in a full broadcast setup with the relevant monitoring and I haven’t repositioned the text.

It seems it’s more to do with the rasterizing of the text rather than any positioning – setting the point size to create large text by way of an experiment shows the problem up dramatically. I know that earlier versions of FC5 had people screaming about poor quality graphics and text but I thought that this problem had been solved.

[Rob Alexander]

cheers Jonathan.

[Rob Alexander]

I thought DVCPRO HD only downsized in the camera and that in post it stayed full res, is this not this case?

cheers,
Rob.

[Rob Alexander]

no keyframes I’m afraid. Break up your clip with add edits then colour correct the bits so that they progressively get to the effect you want and add dissolves between the effects.

good luck,
rob

[Rob Alexander]

Not just windows, with that vintage of AVID and OS I think the 2GB limit applies too.

Rob

[Rob Alexander]

Copy the clip onto the next layer so you have to versions. Then use the colour corrector to make one version monochrome, leaving the other full colour. Finally use a combination of filters (mask shape & feather) from the matte submenu of video filters tocreate the shape and ‘bleed’ that you want. Also note that you can ‘stack up’ feathering for a softer blend.

Rob

[Rob Alexander]

OK same tack but slightly more complex. I wonder whether you have video and audio clips which are linked but that you’ve slipped out of sync with one another (or multiple video and audio clips selcted in the timeline) and that you’re perhaps selecting a video clip and hitting [delete] or shift+x to achieve the ripple. This will certainly cause strange things to happen in the timeline. In fact even if you’re trying to use an in and out point for the ripple but have clips selected you will get something other than you expected. I’ve got into the habit of always deselcting everything (shift+cmd+a) before ripple deleting.

Rob.

[Rob Alexander]

justin,

here’s a thought – I notice that there’s a discrepancy between the track selection icons on the two snapshots. It’s a bit hard to see what’s going on and find reference points because of the scaling but you might find that because of the sync relationship that FCP establishes between video and audio clips, ripple deleting (or inserting) without the track selectors all on can do strange things to the relative position of clips in the timeline. The selectors work a bit (but not completely) like arming or disarming a track on an AVID timeline.

So, I’d recommend making sure the track selectors are all on and then delete.

Can’t promise anything but it’s worth a go.

Good luck,
Rob

[Rob Alexander]

[d.z.gilad] “”Multiple editors accessing the same media? No problem.”
I did not ask if several editors could access the same media.”

Perhaps you should look at the first line of your first post, I’ll remind you: “We are working a large project, with several editors cutting sequences from the same media.” You don’t bother to describe your setup at all, is it multiple workstations networked together using shared storage? Is it one machine with editors coming in and out in shifts? Which version of FC are you using? If you have a complex problem, it would help if you gave detailed information so that people more experienced than yourself can give you the benefit of their FREE advice.

[d.z.gilad] “Why not save the “upres” until picture is locked? We’ve been using off-line RT for network review and approval for years.
Why not? Because I don’t want to. Or should I call the BBC and tell them that Mark Raudonis over in LA said they should just accept OfflineRT cuts for approval, because his networks do so?”

I work for the BBC for about 6 months of every year, they don’t expect to see online quality until the picture’s locked and been approved from the offline (low res) cuts. Perhaps you’re grappling with the mistake (due to inexperience no doubt) of digitising at quarter resolution offlineRT (which is designed for maximising the space on a laptop only) instead of using DV (or even photoJPEG) as your ‘offline’ resolution. If you’d asked anyone on this forum – that’s what they would have advised – you’d have no need to be wasting time and resources doing intermediate uprezzing.

[d.z.gilad] “I find it extremely amusing how every question I’ve asked on this forum draws at least several “Oh, don’t do it that way, do it the FC way!” and “Silly Avid user!” If those people harbor any desire that FC become an industry standard someday, they’re going about it the wrong way. It’s kind of funny how they seem to have an almost emotional attachment to a piece of software, and appear to take it personally when anyone suggests that it might be anything less than perfect. It’s like a religion … call it Mac-ism.”

Would you expect to be able to fly a helicopter just because you have a cessna? Perhaps you would suggest they take the rotors off and glue some wings and a propellor on. Why is it so strange for people to say that you need to stop thinking about FC as if its AVID. It isn’t AVID. Both systems have their strengths and weaknesses, both get the job done, and both have their own workflows. If one manufacturer copied the other wholesale, they’d be sued. If you don’t like or understand one workflow use the other.

Remember that the limitations are similar – on AVID you can’t have multiple editors working on the same bin or sequence at the same time, on AVID you can’t have more than one project open at a time so in a networked environment you have editors working on different sequences in different bins. FC however allows you to have multiple projects open, so why not have one master project which contains digitized clips and finished sequences. All the editors can have access to this, then create cutting projects on individual workstations for the relevant sequences. When the sequence is finished, put it into the master project. Not that dissimilar from what AVID does.

Your inflammatory, and frankly rude, comments merely betray your prejudice and ignorance. If you want peolple to give their time and expertise to help you out of a self made mess then treat them with a little respect.