Todd Beabout
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I’d go with more RAM anyways, but that’s just me. FCP can use up to 2 Gigs of RAM, and I bet I push that from time to time.
As far as the Photoshop files… It gets on my nerves to have to deal with sequences on my timeline, unless I actually need to have the layers seperated in order to animate them or something. For that reason, I usually save as .tiff (no layers) out of Photoshop. Seems less intensive for FCP to deal with a flattened image vs. a layered file.
Give that a try and see if it helps. And go get yourself some more RAM! =)
-Todd Beabout
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Just be aware of the PCIe slots. The last generation had PCI-X slots, which are not compatible, so if you have older cards, they will not work. Also, we are not getting a Quad because of the lack of a fibre card to connect it to our XRaid. Do a search of this forum for a lot more info on that issue.
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Try opening the problem files in QTPro, then exporting them out with settings that match your sequence.
-Todd Beabout
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I hear ya.
I’m really not sure why your exported movie doesn’t jive with what you see in FCP. Are you viewing video on an external NTSC monitor? And if so, does it look right there? And if you import that DV clip you exported, does it look right on the external monitor?
You might want to try using the “Eight-Point Garbage Matte” that is in your Matte folder under the effects tab. You could also use the 4-point if you don’t need that much control. I have found this to be a somewhat weird plug-in, but it does the job. You’ll have to keyframe each point, though.
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I found the path… But it’s easier to just tell you how. Load that template up in DVDSP. Then go to the assets tab, and open the “Templates” folder. There you will see the file. Right click and select “Reveal in Finder”.
There ya go!
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I think once you open it in QTPro, just do an Export>QuickTime Movie and then leave the video at current settings (or change settings to match current) and change the audio part. You will have to click the “Options” button to get to this.
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I think you mean EDL… I don’t think an OMF will open in FCP.
There have been extensive posts about how to do this somewhat complicated process. You could do a search, or check out Ken Stone’s website.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/offline_rt.html
This is the page that describes part of what you will have to do. You are going to have to “Make sequence clips independant” before you capture, I know that much. That may acutally do the trick, since you don’t already have any media captured yet. Right-click on the sequence and choose “Make clips independant” then try to do a batch capture.
Let me know if that works. Good luck!
-Todd Beabout
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Hmmm…
First off I’d have to say that this sounds kindof ambitious to try to do in FCP. Would probably look better done in AE or combustion, or at least with some kind of mask plug-in. But the crop tool??
If what you had on the timeline looked OK in FCP, then it should look identical on the QT that you exported. Did you do a “Self-contained” movie, or reference? And is this DV, uncompressed, or what?
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[felsherif] “the short on the DVD looked more like video rather than “film””
Is this the frame rate that you are talking about? Or image quality?
Sounds like your footage was shot 24p, but the camera added pulldown for you. That is pretty standard with the DV cameras, and your frame rate look should be preserved. There is really no way for it to have turned into interlaced footage in the DVD burning process that I know of. Now, if you are overall dissapointed with how DV looks on DVD… welcome to the club. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that you will be able to fool anyone into thinking that you shot film (unless they just don’t know…).
But… if you have a disparity between what you are seeing in your FCP timeline and what ends up on the DVD, then you should look into some of your Compressor settings. What did you use to encode for your DVD?
-Todd Beabout
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Not sure, but I think that your problem may lie with the fact that the IO likes to completely command the FireWire bus. I have been told that when using the IO you should not have any other FireWire devices attached. That info may be old… but it’s something to look at.
It the IO is trying to pull in uncompressed 10-bit over it’s own FireWire, I would suppose that writing that data to disc through FireWire as well might be causing you some problems.
It was quite a while ago that we got all our equipment, so something may have changed, but it’s food for thought.
Good luck!
-Todd Beabout
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