Rpfloyd
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Try capturing and playing back at 8-bit. Does the problem still persist?
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Hit the nail on the head. know that with any uncompressed format its always a good idea (if not absolutly necessary) to be running dual fibre/dual controllers to the spindles. fully loaded Xserve RAID 14 x 500GB drives DAS should get you around 120-160 MBs per controller = 240-360 MBs per RAID theoretically. The more you diminish the Drive modules per Controller the greater the performance decrease.
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I believe that before you use the codec solution that you will have to export Quicktimes from Avid before bringing them into Final Cut. I did some funkiness (granted a couple years ago) where i captured in an Xpress pro, exported Quicktime reference movies, Imported into FCP, reconnected to the OMFI Media files and handed it off to an editor to cut. He said all went well but I didnt stick around for the final product 🙂 In any case Shanes advice is solid: Stick to one NLE for capture and offline.
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Ill be doing some testing today with that workflow and will report back any further issues. Thank you all for all your help.
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Understand that FCP reads 720p only at non-drop. Knew that speed changes could be a problem which is why i removed them before MM. Removed all attributes in fact, yet the speed changes stayed with the Conform Project. Had to manually remove them from the sequence again. Walter: had actually been thinking about doing the next Conform by cross converting to 1080i 29.97. Good to hear a reaffirmation on that process. Have you done it yet? Seems technically sound…
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Initially did it because there have been some documented errors in Media Managers ability to handle Time remapping. In deleting all the effects it was thought we were actually making it easier for FCP to Manage. However we did try every conceiveable combination: with and without fx (including Time Remaps), Create offline to DV 29.97 then capture as 720p60, Larger handles in thinking that the smaller ones might be hitting time code breaks without capturing the right clip, finally Capturing the ENTIRE Master clip and still not lining up properly in the timeline. Want to do more testing but on a serious time schedule (aren’t they all). In the end the EDL worked out. Very bare bones.
This should be very straight foward; a calculation that FCP should be able to do without so many major mistakes. Granted we havent had to do the offline/online workflow in literally years. We typically work natively at DVCPro HD. No problem. But am still going to look into the issue at length when time permits. Having not handled the project until this point I cant easily trace back any funkiness that introduced itself.