Russell Lasson
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[andy Blanc] “i see the grey bars……..with the pink line thru it…
i like the pink line…..
how do i get rid of the grey thick bars…”
So pink line good. Grey bar bad.
Pink line toggle on an off: the little mountain with the dots at the peak and valley on the lower right of the timeline.
As for thick grey bars, do you mean the little grey bar usually above the pink line? or the audio waveform of a bars and tone signal?
As for the little grey line, don’t have a clue how to get rid of it.
If you’re seeing a huge grey bar behind the pink line, it’s probably an audio waveform. So go to the triangle that looks like a play button on the lower right of the time line, select it and turn off “Show audio waveforms.”
Is that what you’re seeing?
-Russ
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Right click on the counter just to the right of the RT switch. A menu should come up that says
Non-Drop Frame
Feet+Frame
Frames
etcIt sound like it is set to Frames. Change it to Non Drop Frame
-Russ
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We have a SAN with both Intels and PPCs connected. I’ve never had a problem opening projects from one system to the other. Even when I use media manager to copy clips and create a new project.
-Russ
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Right click on the timeline counter/ruler thing and change it from frames back to Non-Drop Frame or Drop Frame.
-Russ
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Try this first! If it doesn’t fix it, then try what I said.
Nice thinking David!
-Russ
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You might try starting a new project and using just a couple of problem clips. Did the exported QT movie look okay when the high quality box was checked? When the clips are in the DV timeline, you don’t have to render them do you? (just thought I’d ask just in case)
-Russ
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When crazy stuff like this happens, I usually try to find out what clip is causing it to crash. Sometimes a currupt file can cause this to happen.
It’s not fun, but set some in outs, starting from the start of the show and export again. If it exports okay, then try a larger or the next section. It’s trail and error, but it has worked for me in the past.
Best luck to you,
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Yes, we haven’t had any problems here. We have both Intels and G5s.
One option might be to export an XML of the timeline. That’s not a fix, but it might be a temp work around.
-Russ
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I’m going to do some tests and see what I can find out. This how conversation has really made me take another look at compression and I’ve learned a lot from all of the research that I’ve done.
For all of the rest of you quailty nerds like me, I’ll let you know what I find (or at least new questions to consider).
Thanks,
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What parts look bad?
One thing you can try is exporting a part that looks bad on the dvd from FCP again as a QT movie. Open it up in QT and hit command+J. Select the video track and then select Visual Settings and select High Quality in the lower right of the screen.
How does that file look? If it looks okay then it is probably your settings in compressor. Compression is an art and takes a lot of work to have it work right.
Still let us know what times of shots/graphics/or whatever look bad. Making a good DVD from footage that was shot on DV can be a real challenge.
-Russ