[Shannon Bedford]

Update:

I checked if flat pass was enabled and it wasn’t, and all my clips had the rainbow symbol underneath them. I reinstalled the program and remade my project from scratch and that seemed to do the trick. I wouldn’t have thought Davinci Resolve Lite to be a ‘buggy’ program, I’m guessing it was just some dumb setting I accidentally clicked, and starting a new default project fixed it. Thanks for the help anyway!

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

Hi Tony,

Not a dumb question as all, it’s really confusing. The reason its such a lengthy process is because video was kind of an afterthought for DSLR makers, and the files it creates when you record video are heavily compressed (with the H.264 codec). Final cut pro hates editing with compressed files, which is why you have to convert them to another format (most people prefer ProRes 422).

The tricky bit is that both H.264 and ProRes422 use a .MOV container, so they may look similar, but are really completely different.

Hope this makes sense

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou Jeremy.
Your first suggestion solved it!

Sequence Render All – “full” was not checked.

This might sound bizarre, but I’ve been using the Final Cut System for 18 months and never before noticed that there were ticks there to be toggled. I can from a background render system and always found the Final Cut rendering drop down menu quite baffling. We had all the check boxes ticked on our old edit suite so this problem never arose until we bought this new suite.

So, you learn something new every day. Make that every hour.

I can’t tell you how much stress you have just lifted from this office!
Thanks again.

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

Ok.
I’ve just found out that a draft of the sequence was exported the same way a day earlier and it was perfectly in sync. Now we have exported 4 times (and restarted) but it’s always the same problem. I don’t know of anything that has changed other than a few edits.

So as I said it’s a brand new suite, so hard drives are definately not full!

It only loses sync on export of a mov from FCP (I checked by reimporting back to FCP and it stays out of sync). I have also exported directly to compressor and it was perfect.

Monitoring is fine, the file starts in sync but gradually gets more and more out of sync as the clip progresses. Speakers directly into the Mac Pro.

Yes it’s fully rendered. There were lots of nested sequences in this so I’ve now gone into every single clip and made sure everything is rendered inside. I’ve never found this necessary in the past. That didn’t work either.

Audio mixdown-I tried select all, command-option-r and nothing happened. I gather from reading other forums nothing is supposed to happen as the file created doesn’t end up in your project? Anyway that didn’t work either.

Help!

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

We’re working with XDCAMHD422 1080i50 footage. Timeline was set to match this. (Editing timebase is 25).

If you can help me today it will be much appreciated as the client needs it quickly. Thanks!

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

Hi everyone, haven’t received any feedback on this can someone help?

We’re definitely going to splash out and buy a new edit suite, it will be a Mac pro and needs to handle HD editing – (mostly corporate videos). We’re keeping the old Mac Pro for smaller jobs and processing file conversions but we won’t be networking the two.

All the suppliers in town seem to have little idea what to quote on as none of them are editors.
I’m no IT expert but I know it needs to be fast and have plenty of storage space.
What specs do you recommend we give to our suppliers?

Cheers,

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

Thanks everyone for the advice.
Some time has passed, I hear a new FCP has been released and we have decided we will definately buy a new edit suite for the office (keeping the old as a second suite).

So, given that we are now editing HD, mostly corporate videos, lots of vision to store plus using Photoshop, Episode & possibly After Effects could be added in the future.. What specs would you recommend for our new suite?

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 7.0.3, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

[Shannon Bedford]

We have done all of this in an effort to fix the problem, except we didn’t actually trash the prefs, we checked them for corruption and found none.
I will trash the prefs, will get back to you when I’ve given the problem a chance to rear it’s ugly head again. Any other ideas in the meantime much appreciated!

Thanks for explaining the Ram usage – could have wasted a lot of money there.

[Shannon Bedford]

My hope is that after we win the tender the client will just forget they ever put this in the document (I doubt they know what it means) and the problem will just quietly go away.

Or, I will ask them if we just just give them a copy of the tapes. Clients always feel MUCH safer with a real tape in their hands rather than a drive so I’m sure they’ll love that idea.

Thanks guys.

-Shannon

[Shannon Bedford]

Hi Shane, just getting back to our earlier discussion about converting with compressor.
I successfully converted and all went well.

I’m about to run another batch of conversions but have now upgraded to FCP7. You said that with FCP7 the setting to use is ProRes 422 LT. I still can’t see LT.

The options for ProRess give a choice of interlaced or progressive.
It says “for interlaced material” does that refer to the source footage being interlaced/progressive or is it referring to the final ProRes file?
How can I tell if my source H264 files are interlaced or progressive?
My final edit will be mixed up with some 1080i footage so I guess the final files should be interlaced?

You’ve been a great help so far, thanks.

S Bedford, Western Australia
FCP 6.0.6, Mac OSX 10.6.6
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
6GM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM