[Ted Machilles]

Yeah that’s fair, thanks. I’ll just wait until I get the spec sheet. This project was a little out of my wheel house so I’ve been jumping ahead of myself for no reason since the beginning.

Thanks for the help.

[Ted Machilles]

Ah yes, that makes sense. Thank you.

So now, even less of my expertise is in Dolby/surround. Will a 6 channel MXF export work as a 5.1 output? As in, if this is turned into DCP (I believe that’s their plans) will the 5.1 carry through in the 6 channel output or would it play fine in a surround sound setting?

My idea was to not switch from DNxHR HQ 444 to Pro Res 4444. However, at this point considering my available options, maybe I should just make the switch to use the Quicktime container and keep the 5.1 mix intact. I’ve never had reason to make the switch before but from what I’m reading elsewhere, Premiere and/or Media Encoder can make the change without any color issues as long as I am particular about which boxes are checked/unchecked.

[Ted Machilles]

It’s the bottom most Lumetri effect in your effect control tab that will work in the panel.

It’s kind of a pain if you want to go back and play with the top/first one, but still see the effects of the others in the order you intend them to be in. You can change their order and bring the one you want to play with down to the bottom so you can mess with it in the panel, but that will mess with the order in which your effects appear.

Not sure if someone knows a better solution other than just doing your best to do everything in order starting with your first Lumetri effect to your last.

[Ted Machilles]

Got it. Thanks! Night AE was in the room and switched the settings. They have been appropriately castrated and burned at he stake for not using their own user settings.

This was a funny one though…

[Ted Machilles]

Hey Shane, thanks for the suggestion but no cigar. It did rebuild the database but the clip is still offline.

Media is within the 1 folder just like so:

Hard drive>Avid MediaFiles>MXF>1>EXAMPLECLIP.mxf

[Ted Machilles]

Thanks Dave, my first thought was the very technical OS Weirdness, but I figured I would throw it out there see if this was something anyone else has experienced, or if someone had a setting somewhere I didn’t know about.

I will look into Digital Rebellion, it’s not my system, it’s at my production house’s office but I’m sure they could use it with all the abuse it gets.

[Ted Machilles]

Nick,

Yes if I don’t stop it, an actual export will appear on my desktop.

For the sake of all commenters on here (thanks for the advice so far!) I do know the difference between rendering and exporting. Even though I made sleepy comments early about my Pro Res 422 being H.264. But my problem is it Ghost Exports

So yes, I do have auto-render on and it does auto-render which gives a similar effect, but that is not what I am talking about. I am getting an actual export if I let it finish. Sorry about not clarifying that this was not a render issue.

Happens regardless of if I have effects or if I have placed two clips in the timeline.

Thanks for the help so far.

[Ted Machilles]

Well maybe it’s because it’s the middle of the week, and my brain is tired but just so I stop getting posts on it. I don’t work DSLR footage in H.264, they are all transcoded to Prores 422 using either Compressor or 5DtoRGB.

Sorry about that mixup, for it being only Wednesday it’s been a long week.

What I meant to ask was if DSLR footage that has been transcoded will cause this problem?

Thanks for the other info though.

[Ted Machilles]

Well there you go.
I do my best to always make sure my sequence settings match my footage, but I am working on H.264 DSLR footage almost 90% of the time.

Are you saying that the trick of matching settings doesn’t work with the H.264 DSLR footage? Or the trick of getting FCP not to ghost render on me doesn’t always work on H.264 DSLR?

Thanks,

[Ted Machilles]

Brian,

Just out of curiosity why the opposition to Compressor? Up until this point (8 months at this job and any projects of my own), it has worked out fine. And the solution turned out to be pretty simple, but I’m curious if you feel these other programs do something better or more efficiently? I’ve heard Compressor is a little on the slow side, but I haven’t used another program to transcode in the same way so I can’t say from personal experience.

Thanks!