[Stephan Liehr]

Yes, that’s my next step, thanks!

I just noticed that v8.1.2 is the latest driver, but after installing the offset only reduces to one frame. Thanks for any further help!

[Stephan Liehr]

Hi Patrice,

it doesn’t seem to depend on the RT settings, drives or number of streams, as I already edited similar projects on the same machine having no problems. I upgraded FCP a short time ago to 7.0.3 and after this the trouble started.

Anyways, I’m editing seven streams lying on an internal SATA Raid. The flickering occurs at different RT settings, at both best and dynamic playback, safe and unlimited Realtime (I don’t know the exact english terms as I’m editing with a German surface). I think the flickering looses strength when I turn off the videoscopes-playback.

[Stephan Liehr]

Thanks for the hint to the XDCAM Transfer update, Daniel! That helped joining the Sony clips of one camera. But the tool doesn’t seem to support the same thing for JVC XDCAM EX…
And no, the EX clip that’s shorter after the transcode from mp4 to mov doesn’t span to another card.

Thanks Paul, but I do have to join my XDCAM EX clips to one new clip, containing all clips of one camera. Otherwise they’re not editable with the multiclip feature. That makes transcoding necessary. But maybe you know another way to merge those clips?

[Stephan Liehr]

Hi Josh,

if you want to edit XDCAM EX this might help you. System requirements should fit those already suiting SD, as XDCAM EX has a bitrate of just 35mbit/s. But even in SD nine streams via FW800 might get difficult.

Right now I’m editing seven streams as a multiclip in FCP. The footage natively is XDCAM EX, but made some trouble in playback. I first had to export the single XDCAM EX MOVs of each camera into one Quicktime Reference File, to have just one clip for each camera, to add them to the multiclip.
Afterwards the Viewer showed the single streams of the multiclip in realtime as usual, but the Canvas wouldn’t show my program edit, saying it still needs to be rendered. Though my sequence settings fitted the footage.

I downconverted the footage to Apple ProRes422 SD and playback worked in both Viewer and Canvas in realtime again, though the bitrate of the ProRes files was higher than of the XDCAM EX files.

But while editing another problem occured. Videoplayback started to flicker, while audio continued accurately. Still don’t know what the problem is. Just found out it’s the same with IMX 50 and that stopping playback and starting again helps.