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Ron Cole
December 14, 2011 at 5:08 am in reply to: Photoshop Text into Final Cut Pro

Hi Kim, what I found that solved the problem with text was several different little things. First make sure the resolution of your graphic is the same as the resolution of your sequence. Then make sure you’ve got the correct pixel width – square or rectangular pixels, again to match your sequence. Then once you have everything correct in Photoshop and you are happy with the graphic or text, save it as a PNG file then import the PNG file into FCP and leave the PSD file for corrections if needed. This seems to give me the best results and the fastest system and editing performance. Hope this helps, Ron Cole – Digital Media Productions, Inc. Ventura, CA
Ron Cole
October 7, 2010 at 12:09 am in reply to: Photoshop Text into Final Cut Pro

My timeline settings are:

Frame Size 720 x 486 CCIR 601 NTSC (40:27)
Pixel Aspect Ration NTSC – CCIR 601 / DV (720×480)
Field Dominance Lower Even
Editing Timebase: 29.97

Quicktime Compressor – Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2

Audio Setting – Rate: 48 khz
Depth: 16-bit
Config: Channel Grouped

I think that’s it – let me know if there is any other information you need. Thanks, Ron?
Ron Cole
October 6, 2010 at 11:06 pm in reply to: Photoshop Text into Final Cut Pro

Here is the link to a side by side sample of the text issue. Thanks, Ron

1153_sidebyside.psd.zip
Ron Cole
September 1, 2010 at 5:34 pm in reply to: Compressor Error -1

What I did to finally fix it was to change the settings completely on export. The original file was Pro Res Proxy at 1920 x 1080 30fps. I tried to compress it as a reference file then a self contained file with the current settings and then re-compress all frames, self contained with current settings – the Compressor failed everything with the Error -1.

Then I changed the settings to Pro Res HQ 1920 x 1080 30P 29.97fps, re-compress all frames, make a self contained movie. Now with these parameters Compressor is working perfectly.

Seems like there could be a bug in the Pro Res frame rate within Compressor… anyway its working.
Ron Cole
April 26, 2010 at 3:03 am in reply to: Authoring to DLT

Awesome – thanks.
Ron Cole
March 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm in reply to: Aligning Clips by Timecode

Awesome – Thanks that works perfect. And now I know why I couldn’t find it in the manual – I was looking for aligning timecode or sync timecode. Guess I’ll need to learn the “Final Cut Lingo”

Thanks again for your help!

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