Todd Beabout
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Avid has 1:1 “uncompressed” (8-bit) on it’s Meridian line, so you should be fine. However, I’m not sure how you would [doogal] “EXPORT/RENDER from AE: AVID CODEC, carry to facility house on FW drive.” I’m sure this can probably be done, I’ve just never done it, and I must not have the proper codec loaded. If you do have that codec, then it should work out. I’d do a test on a short clip and send it to them to make sure everything imports properly, and looks good.
-Todd Beabout
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FCP doesn’t support .mp3. Convert it to .aiff or .wav and you’ll be fine. You can do that in iTunes. The .aiff anyways, and that’s the route I’d go.
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Try creating a new sequence and copy/pasting the entire timeline into the new sequence. Or you could go a step further, and create a whole new project, new sequence, then copy/paste. Even if this doesn’t work, the results could help troubleshoot where the problem exists.
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What are you using to author/burn your DVD?
I would suggest using Export>Using Compressor from FCP, then setup your compression in Compressor, and I’d leave it 16:9 if you have DVDSP. From there bring your MPEG that Compressor created into DVDSP. You can select “Force to Letterbox” from within DVDSP, and you can skip that 4:3 sequence step altogether.
Just a thought…
-Todd Beabout
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Try an XML import from 5.0. Then import that into 4.5.
Never done it, and I hear it can be a pain, but it just might help. If it is simple 1 track video sequence I guess you could try an EDL too. But Apple is right, to the best of my knowledge you cannot open a newer version file in an older version of FCP.
-Todd Beabout
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We use Animation all the time to go from either FCP or AE to an Avid. It is so much slower coming in to Avid if you don’t check the “Ignore Alpha” button in your import options. Avid will do 3 passes on this (QT Fill, RLE data, and something else… can’t remember) vs. just 1 pass if you don’t tell it to look for alpha. The only reason I mention this is that I see other Avid editors I work with that just leave their import options alone, and take up so much more space and time importing this way. Not to mention the always fabulous “Pre-computes can’t be loaded” message when you try to match frame. Don’t know if this applies to what you are doing, but the import is much faster without alpha. I would be suprised if a .tiff sequence comes in faster than a QT, but I haven’t used MC on a Mac for quite a few years.
Good luck!
-Todd Beabout
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If you have the ability to output to a true HD format, then it would probably be worth it (IMO).
But if all you have is a HDV camera or deck to output your final product too, I’d just stay HDV. Cause that’s what it will be when you put it back on that miniDV tape.
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Can you try LiveType for that graphic? You get much better control of kerning, etc. with LiveType vs. the text tool.
See if the font misbehaves in other programs, too.Love the name by the way. LOL
-Todd Beabout
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Well… that’s not exatcly true. You can create an alpha channel in Photoshop for one thing, but just save a .tiff out of photoshop (preserve transparency) and pull that into FCP. You may have to mess with the settings a bit (I’m not a Photoshop expert), but I know it can be done because I use tiff’s with transparency every single day.
I think your real problem, as I said earlier, is that you have photoshop files with layers. I think it’s the layers that are killing you. When you open one of those photoshop sequences is there only 1 layer in there? If so a quicker workaround is to literally grab that 1 layer from inside the photoshop nest and drag it into the viewer or bin (or copy/paste… so many ways to do this). Then you will have only 1 layer that FCP is looking at instead of another nested sequence.
Give it a try and let us know what happens.
-Todd Beabout
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Could you be more specific? Will the problem files open in QTPro? If so, do they play properly? Can you open the exported file back up in QTPro, and does THAT file open/play properly?
If all of this works, but only in FCP do you have the problem, then I am at a loss. If a file opens/plays properly in QTPro, theoretically it should perform the same in FCP, seeing as how FCP is based on QT.
-Todd Beabout
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