[Steve Price]

Thanks Shane,

Unfortunately that hasn’t worked. I downloaded the Preference Manager and ran it for FCP, but the problem is still there.

Thanks,

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Thanks Dave, that’s very useful information. I’ve temporarily avoided the issue by conforming my project from an EDL. I shall investigate your theories once the machine has finished it’s job as it’s merrily clunking away now doing its thing.

However, I didn’t copy the files to a new drive, I just copied the project to a new drive and set the new drive as my scratch disk as the project is huge (2 hours, 12 multicamera concert shoot, 1080i 25fps, HD Cam).

The multicamera clip was already collapsed so I highlighted the entire timeline and told FCP to take the media offline so I could perform a batch capture at 10 Bit Uncompressed. That’s when I got the error message.

I left the audio track in the timeline without attempting to take it offline as this is the master audio track of the concert which was recorded at the show and mixed separately.

So, the EDL seems to be working out ok, I’ll investigate your suggestions further in the morning.

Many thanks Dave,

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Evidently not Dave.

Thanks for your contribution.

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Thank you – this is all very helpful advice and I’m learning a lot.

As it happens I did update the drivers recently so this will explain the NTSC default setting.

So presumably, when the setting is correct for my monitor, I’ll be able to output my work to my monitor when viewing it in AJA TV too?

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Thanks again Paul – I tried both options but it makes no difference.

I’ve noticed that some (but not all) of my screen savers have started to work only in the left monitor, while the right monitor displays the words ‘Quartz Composer’. I read on another Cow thread that one option might be to turn off my screen savers – I’ve done this too but once again it makes no difference.

I’m wondering if this is related to the problem and if the fault might actually be hardware related. Maybe there’s something wrong with the AJA Kona LH card I’m using.

The investigation continues…

Thanks again,

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Sorry – here’s the thread https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/958982#958982

[Steve Price]

Thanks for the software Paul, I trashed my preferences, restarted etc but no joy.

Here’s a thread for the same problem from last year. I’ve tried most of the solutions suggested here but alas to no avail.

I haven’t tried a clean FCP7 install though, I don’t really want to go there. I recently upgraded from FCS2 to FCS3 – maybe the problem lies there somewhere…?

Thanks again Paul,

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Yep – Mirror is ON. It was already on, but I unchecked it, rechecked it then restarted anyway. I still have the same problem.

Thanks for your suggestion Paul.

Steve.

[Steve Price]

Thanks Jeremy, it’s been an education!
All the best,
Steve.

[Steve Price]

Sure thing!

First, here’s my capture summary:

And here’s a link to where you can download a 5 second clip (valid for 7 days)
https://www.yousendit.com/download/dklvYUo5bThsUjlFQlE9PQ

Thanks very much.

Steve.