[Roger Poole]

It sounds like your tape deck or A-D converter doesn’t have a built in Timebase corrector. You could try looping your output through another deck. That might TBC the signal. I’ve done that years ago using a digibeta deck for that very purpose when I didn’t have a TBC to hand.

Good luck.

[Roger Poole]

When I say sharp I mean that viewing the output from the Blackmagic card in FCP7 I can see every hair on a dogs back. In FCPX, same card, same cilp, I can see on the video monitor, which end of the dog has teeth . Having said that, a GoPro clip on FCP7 shows moire on masonry, both on the computer display and the video monitor. In FCPX, same clip, the moire is not there on the computer monitor, so something good is going on. Thanks for your input though.

Best, Roger.

[Roger Poole]

Thanks for the suggetions guys, I do have an Intensity pro somewhere. I’ll try to dig it out and give it a go, but I’ll have a problem with the audio because everything here is wired balanced XLR, even the Yamaha HS5’s are balanced only, no RCA connectors. Nevertheless I’ll be delighted if I get good video monitoring with the Intensity Pro, then figure out the audio later.
Duncan, yes I’m aware of the Blackmagic control panel in system preferences, but I find it sort of dumbed down from the version used in FCP7 where video monitoring is as sharp as a tack and everything just works very well, hence my frustration with X. Thanks for your input though.

My quest continues.

[Roger Poole]

Thanks everyone. Noah, yes the studio 2 has been superseded by the 4k version but when going to FCPX with the current drivers installed I am prompted to update the card firmware, so the Studio 2 is still supported by Blackmagic. Other niggles I have are that Apple have still not included bars and tone for output calibration. I got around that by stealing them from fcp 7 and they work perfectly in X, the reference tone showing exactly -12 on the FCPX meters. However, the output from the card is peaking on my mixer when the sliders are set to zero and my PPM’s light up like a Christmas tree. Reducing the output levels to -4 gives me PPM4 and zero on the mixer. Likewise the video output is too hot and when playing out bars the colours are correct but the pluge bar stands out like a lighthouse. All in all pretty useless if I can’t rely on my monitor for CC and sound mixing. For now the Blackmagic drivers are removed and my studio periferals lay unused by FCPX, which is not ideal and not how I want to work, Thanks also for the AJA suggestion which was my thought​ too, but going into various forums it seems there are problems with AJA and​ FCPX also, the common denominator here seems to be Apple. I really like FCPX, it has some amazing features but accuracy is fundamental if my stuff is going to look and sound right on other people’s displays.

Best, Roger.

[Roger Poole]

Thanks Oliver, that’s what I feared but I’m hoping someone has found a way to do it.

[Roger Poole]

Which Mac are you using. it seems you have installed the driver for a Blackmagic Intensity card or similar. However, the normal QuickTime codecs should be there. You did install QuickTime 7.6.6 ?

[Roger Poole]

Good news Bobby.

[Roger Poole]

Elastic aspect by Andy Mees. The FCP7 version seems to have gone underground but you may be able to find it. If not, you might try contacting Andy directly. Failing that I might have it somewhere.

Watch the FCPX tutorial to decide if it suits your requirements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt639X2x0Ls

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[Roger Poole]

Sometimes fcp doesn’t interpret the alpha channel correctly. If you right click on the clip in the browser then click on “Item properties” you will see all the info about that clip. If you go down to Alpha it will most likely display as “none/ignore. If you click on none you should get a drop down to “straight” , choose that. If it doesn’t show that then the clip has no alpha channel. As already pointed out, the only codecs which support transparency are the animation and/or ProRes 4444 for video, and tiff or PNG in the case of still images.

[Roger Poole]

Good news Derek.