[Thom Obarski]

Like I said a prores hq render works fine and that’s an even longer render than 4444! clients did provide fw drives but writing to our sata raids with more than enough space to render to. All machines are running fcp 7.0.2, OS 10.5.8, QT 7.6.6, kona card is only 3rd party hardware aside from the raid hard in the system during renders.

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[Thom Obarski]

you can achieve the same thing using a filter built into fcp called mask shape which will let you create and place a mask and then combine it with the mask feather filter; these are both located in the matte section of your filter list

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[Thom Obarski]

if you’re fading to or from black you can put a slug above both layers and fade up onto or off of the slug

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[Thom Obarski]

i just had the same problem with the same strange solution; anybody else figure out the real issue here and why this solution actually works?

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[Thom Obarski]

yeah it’s only grayed out on mc footage; which is strange b/c i could’ve sworn i was doing the same thing on the show last week but it must have regular clips

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tried dropping views to one from 9, tried collapsing, tried removing all effects added before creating the multiclip, nothing seems to work. It’s not just the speed dialouge either, wont allow for keyframes in linear map of motion tab or in the clip keyframes in the timeline directly.

I did do some digging in the fcp manual and it says you can’t add variable ramps to mc’s; but i could have sworn i was just doing it last week and could do it in studio 2 as well.

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[Thom Obarski]

1-FCP will not let you insert either audio or video if either the in or out points are over ANY type of video or audio transition, i.e: video dissolve, audio fade, sapphire effect, whatever. Trust me, we have run numerous tests on this and we always get the same result which is to have black sent out to the deck from FCP or, occasionally, a freeze frame of the first frame of video in the edit.

Thanks Tom; thankfully i ran across your post here within an hour rather than a day to figure out my video insert was overtop of an audio fade below it! So strange especially since i was inserting video only!; I don’t know if you’ve solved your other issues a year later; but i was also getting the, “fcp is only going to lay off one frame” warning which i seemed to be able to solve by switching from mastering to editing and setting an outpoint in the ETT window as well as on the timeline.

Thanks a mil!
~Thom

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Even more issues resolving from being quicktime dependent, lovely…it’s stuff like this i won’t miss if/when apple takes a cue from the adobe guys and switches to a resolution independent interface.

*sigh*

Until that day, thanks Jeremy!
~T

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I was just searching the good ole internet with a similar issue, were reconnecting an older project for foreign deliverables and the master mixes weren’t lining up to the old locked timeline when trying to reconnect. Couldn’t figure it out, none of the files changed. I came across your post Jeremy, ran the appropriate easy setup and retried with complete success. Turns out the last project i was working on was in true 24p and this one is 23.976 and the switch fixed the audio import.

I can’t thank you enough Jeremy (if you read this, this post is over a year old!).

Can anyone tell me why this matters, is it someway the fcp interprets the audio on import regardless of the audio’s imbedded properties? And why didn’t this affect the video reconnect as well?

Crazy QT, always messing with my head!

Thanks in advance,
~Thom

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is this something adobe can fix (we’re on a mac) or is it a physical limitation of the operating system? we’re trying to run 2k outputs now that we’re dealing with red footage and the machine is just chocking on the outputs. Is there something like that workaround for mac?
thanks!
~T

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