[Steve Morrison]

Just for future reference, you can do your move on the still shot, then nest the item and apply the filter to the nested edit. Option clicking on the nested edit allows you to edit the filter parameters in the viewer. This method will help you avoid rendering out a quicktime and allow you to still edit the original move on the still.

[Steve Morrison]

Make it a nested edit amd throw a dissolve on the end. Clean and simple.

[Steve Morrison]

Definitely not the FCP scopes, got an old but still good techtronics.

[Steve Morrison]

I Have tried trashing the prefs, using FCP rescue by the way which is a cool little app that makes a simple job even easier, and have still had this problem. What gets me is it’s happening on three different systems.

Thanks anyway,

-S

[Steve Morrison]

Thanks for the tip. But unfortunately the old Avid EDL tool does basically the same thinig as FCP’s EDL export, as far as formatting and sorting but doesn’t allow any modification. Other than opening up the EDL in a text editor and doing it by hand line by line.

Seeing that old Avid interface brought back old memories, makes me all that much more appreciative of FCP.

[Steve Morrison]

I usually just export from FCP using compressor. Exporting a DV quicktime and then going into compressor is an extra step that isn’t needed, not too mention the drive space needed to export the first quicktime and then the MPEG 2. As far as using A.pack that depends on the length of your project, an hour long project you would want to use A.pack as Don said, but if your talking a half hour or less then save yourself a step.

-S