[Todd Reid]

kept re-saving and it finally worked.

anyone had this happen?

[Todd Reid]

you didn’t mention what image size went along with the dpi. They are two separate, and important things.

Since you are rotating, you need to be larger than the video frame, but a lot of photoshop file3s come MUCH larger. Try changing the “image size- within photoshop” to just a bit larger than your video.
ex. 720×486 video, I might change to 1000x? (constrain proportion and it calculates for you)

Also, you can try putting a very slight blur, couple of pixels (in FCP), and that may help.

[Todd Reid]

easy answer….your safe.

But as with EVERY drive (internal or external) it WILL fail eventually. So no one can give you a guarantee that you will be “safe”.
I use a LACIE BIggest 2.5TB drive and it works great. I’ve always used external drives (for media) to a varying degree of speed and success. They all “worked” but some were too slow for my tastes.
As long as you use SATA, you should be good to go for MOST video formats.
I use DVCProHD and Prores, as well as the occasional SD (brother’s got to eat!).

[Todd Reid]

I have AT&T DSL and it played flawlessly at fullscreen.
I’m going to check this out. I use xprove right now, but this site plays higher quality.

[Todd Reid]

It seems from your description that he changed the format/size to a much “more friendly” format for him to work in. This is common for sound guys since they work with systems that aren’t as forgiving for the large video files. I would assume he exported it out into his audio system, or did he do his audio thing within FCP?

Anyway, he definitely change some settings in the sequence he created, possibly due to a wrongly chosen easy setup, or it was a codec that worked with his audio system.

As already noted, you need to make sure all your settings are correct.

Your post sounded as if you were confused when FCP asked the “settings” question.
What it is saying is “hey your footage doesn’t match the sequence you are trying to work with…..Do you want me to fix that?” You said yes by answering OK. Basically you want to make sure that your timeline settings match your footage.

Try this…..
assuming that your audio guy just choose a wrong sequence setting (and didn’t export/do his thing/ then export back to fcp – thats a whole other issue)….start a new sequence, and put one of your original clip into it, click ok when asked about settings (this forces your sequence to the proper codec).
delete that clip, copy/paste all the “small” clips from the sync sequence, into this new sequence.

hopefully everything will match back up.

Wait a minute, you said that the audio guy put his synced clips in a separate sequence….
Can you just paste his audio into your original sequences?

[Todd Reid]

what size are your photoshop files?

I assume they are very large, and must be scaled down to fit in your timeline.
Make the image size smaller in photoshop (72 dpi), and that might help.

If you don’t think this is your issue,
describe what the “corrupt text” looks like, and we can better understand what’s going on.

[Todd Reid]

Thanks for the head’s up.

I’m using the AJAHD, and this just saved me some time and stress.
Now I know to update that too.

Am going to clone THIS time,
but still good to know more facts as I’m between projects and can’t be down too long.

[Todd Reid]

Just downloaded CCC, seems pretty straight forward.

I do have one clarification, I think the answer is yes, but thought I’d ask anyway.

The target drive should be erased (as you suggested), which means I need to use a drive ONLY for backup, and it can not contain anything else besides the clone, right?

meaning I couldn’t use one of my existing drives with data on it,
even if it has enough space to store the clone?
I should clean off a drive or purchase a new one only for this purpose.
Makes sense, but just confirming.

[Todd Reid]

good advise, that I’ve heard many times. I guess its time to actually heed it.
Sometimes I long for the days when a staff of engineers were at my beck and call,
and would keep the 2 rooms full of equipment running smooth for a linear edit suite.
If anything went wrong, I’d make a phone call, then go get some coffee or dinner, come back and magically things would work again. 😉

When’s THAT update coming to FCP???????

What software do you suggest for cloning?

So it basically works this way, right???

clone entire mac drive, to external harddrive.
update, test. If I notice problems, I use the software (?) to bring the clone back over and
therefore would be back to square one, before the update.

Any pitfalls to be aware of?

[Todd Reid]

within the same timeline you can turn on “show duplicate frames” (user preferences) and footage you’ve used already will show up with colors (in the timeline), matching colors are matching clips.

I assume that you are working with multiple timelines, so a couple of suggestions.
1-when you use a clip, move it into a separate bin, then you know that all clips within the bin are used, and if its not in there, you can still use it.

2-control click on a clip you’ve used and use the color coded “labels”.
You can even rename the colors to anything you want to help with organization.