Sam Cole
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[Jon Essex] ” I have one and can’t work out what mode I need it in to work properly! “
Set it as Mackie
[Jon Essex] ” Which buttons did you hold down on the BCF2000 on start up?”
Its in the manual and you only have to do it once.
[Jon Essex] “Are the faders smooth or very jumpy on slow fades?”
Not entirely smooth but that shouldn’t be a problem. Its when a clip finishes it SLAMS the faders shut and can be quite annoying.
By setting the ‘preset’ button to unused tracks when previewing alleviates this annoyance.Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
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We had a similar problem and discovered it wasn’t certified for all HDMI monitors (especially Acer and LG) but OK on Viewsonic and Asus.
But we upgraded it to a HDLINK Pro and it worked on everything.
Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia -
[Jim Blokland] “I understand the frustration”
Hey Jim – the frustration comes from a. Apple not fessin’ up regarding the issue and b. the ‘apple clan’ always leaping to their defence to gain brownie points from an organisation that doesn’t keep score.
Even more frustrating is when Sony bring out a native method of dealing with XDCAM (cinemon) and while you can bring the MP4 files directly into the timeline, applying filters (eg. green screen) is almost unworkable because the controls are so sluggish!
FCP 8, 8 x 8 = 64, now that is a good number and all our problems will be solved (for a little while).
Sam Cole
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[Steve Connor] “Not sure that rant is particularly helpful to the OP.”
It wasn’t a rant but FACT.
And if you read it correctly you will see it WAS a help as the OP no longer has to keep stripping his system down to fix his problem; he just has to wait for a fix which from what I understand won’t be until the next version of FCP which is a major rewrite (another way of saying ‘awesome’).
Sam Cole
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When I reported similar issues on this forum I was told by the ‘Apple Cult’ that it was my system and should get a ‘proper’ system integrator as “no one else reports these problems”.
Then they told me it was “because I was ‘down under’ and everything worked in reverse”. Are you in Aussieland? Are you using the same ‘system integrator’ as I am?
Well after it was all looked at by numerous engineers it was determined that it is a FCP 7/snow leopard bug with memory management and codec.I would love to stand behind one of these ‘Apple Cult Members’ when their system crashes to see what they say then. Most of their pictures are at the top of this forum.
My boss warned me about them and I didn’t listen.
Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia -
Thanks all for your comments and observations, humorous or not. But just reading these forums and Apple’s own FCP forums it seems I am not the only one having FCP 7 crashing issues; dunnies flushing backwards or not!
I spoke to my boss about the ‘system integrator’ which is what he is and he told me to come back here and ask what has system integration got to do with ‘a stock standard Mac Pro with a Blackmagic Mulibridge all the latest drivers and software versions as a clean instal’.
But to be honest I may have been a little flippant with my details; the crashes are mainly when dealing with XDCAM EX media and HDV media (the boss here has been working with Apple people resolving the HDV problem which from what I understand is a FCP caching problem when scrubbing the timeline; seems it has problems doing rapid HDV frame decodes – workaround is to not scrub so fast. But this is the same problem I get with XDCAM timelines so maybe the two are interlinked.
In all honesty I just finished a 2 week edit in standard def uncompressed 10bit (it had been a while since doing something SD and I was continually complaining about the picture quality off the digibeta tapes!) anyhow – only crashed once in the whole 2 weeks.
In another room they were editing HDCAM uncompressed 8 bit and it seemed that was pretty stable too although when I went in there to talk about it they were scrubbing the timeline and then became unresponsive for about 5 secs with the beachball spinning and then POOF! FCP just disappeared. Now where have I seen that before . . . ?
I have been told to keep the projects clean and slim and that definitely does help and I can actually get a full days work done with only one or two crashes (autosave is set at 1 min intervals).
Now I just want you stateside people’s to know some facts about us in upsidedownland –
1. Australia has more taxes than any other country in the world
2. Australia has 3 times more politicians per head of population than any other country in the world
3. We NEVER put ‘shrimp’ on the Barbie as we call them prawns AND never drink Fosters.
4. The Australian dollar is about to be worth MORE than the greenback!Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
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I recall a few years ago when our company went from Adobe Premiere 3 to FCP 5.
We could not believe how stable it was going from 20+ crashes a day on multiple Adobe Premiere systems to ZERO crashes everyday on our one and only FCP system.
Over the last couple of years we have replaced all but one of our edit suites with FCP and kept them up-to-date.But now we find that we are getting 10 to 15 crashes a day on all our FCP systems. Seems we have gone the full circle as our one and only Adobe Premiere system (CS5), now the latest version has ZERO crashes.
Its like a reverse groundhog day!Must have something to do with the number 5.
Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia -
What we do if a usual head clean doesn’t work is get a roll of Fiji tape (most abrasive) and fast shuttle it to the end and back a few times. And then if that doesn’t work just let it play for an hour.
We have Sony BVH2000 machines and the heads are not removable; you have to remove the whole head assembly.
Also, be careful when cleaning the DT head as they are easily damaged.Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia -
Do you think this may have influenced his attitude . . .
“Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile”
Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia -
Another major use of DI is for the die hard film people who like to shoot their movie’s on celluloid.
They take their 16mm, 35mm or 70mm film from their Panavisions etc, get it processed and run it thru a Northlight Film single frame intermittent scanner etc at 1 frame per second at 4K into a massive storage array which also creates proxies.
Then all the editing is done NLE using the proxies, and CGI, titles etc are added, tradition cinema audio post is done, and then the whole lot is colour graded and ends up getting digitally lasered back to film for release.
All rather amazing really.
Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia