[Tom Alexander]

Thanks. Went on a shoot yesterday using picture profile 1 with -16 adjustment to gamma and black gamma. I was blown away by how great the image looked.

[Tom Alexander]

Thanks for the advice. I did find some very helpful “basic” information on this and Sony’s UK site.

[Tom Alexander]

How does the new editor get the assets in the bin? And what files should I copy from my G-raid.
I have it set up so that the six FCP assets files are the root directory.

[Tom Alexander]

I’m using an i7 imac with Final Cut Pro 7 and Sony xdcam ex. I need to burn blue ray discs so I’m considering buying a Lacie d2 blue ray drive and will be limited to connecting it with high speed usb 2.0 since the only firewire port is connected to my g-raid

Will this work?

[Tom Alexander]

I’m using an i7 imac with Final Cut Pro 7 and Sony xdcam ex. I need to burn blue ray discs so I’m considering buying a Lacie d2 blue ray drive and will be limited to connecting it with high speed usb 2.0 since the only firewire port is connected to my g-raid

Will this work?

[Tom Alexander]

The original files went into imovie before I stared working in final cut. So can I chance the sequence settings to aic, what size? and rerender? Set QT compressor to aic and output QT aic?

[Tom Alexander]

Did everything recommended. Still having the problem on about 10 still “freeze frame” images.
Woke up to a new QT output with the same problems. Scan line double images on 10 stills and
HDV 10801i material that was once pristine has an annoying scan line effect on camera moves.

I agree with a recently added post. FCP seems to have no intelligence. If everything I put into this program was set right to begin with, just making “freeze frames” from within the program from the source material, should not be so impossible. And to make things worse, everything looks great
in the program viewer, it’s on Qt output where the problems show up.

I’ve done programs like this several times before without a problem.

[Tom Alexander]

I think I found the problem! I think. FCP’s “freeze frames” are gigantic for some reason. Six out of 30 freeze frames “get info” shows these files to be about a gigabite in size. Why would FCP make such massive sized still frames? The size is 1920×1080 and type says Freeze frame. My exported quicktime
where also massive, up to 20gb, for a 27 minute program.

Is there anything I can do within FCP studio 6 to fix this easily?

[Tom Alexander]

I’m gaining ground. Changed field dominance to “none” and re-rendered. Output with quicktime using current settings. The “freeze frames” played back great, however, the quicktime has a problem. The quicktime properties are now 1080×1920 (sequence is 1440X1080), and it only plays in 4:5 ratio. So, I’m in the process of making a Quicktime set to apple pro res HQ 1440X1080 30p. Hope this works!

Thanks for the help!

[Tom Alexander]

Everything turned out great.

In the new timeline, the insert took about an hour to clean up timing issues caused by going from the wrong preset of HDV 25fps to 1080i 30fps. My editor is fantastic and fast. The mistakes where
all mine first when I transfered the EXfiles, then when he started, he questioned the stutter, and I told him that a window came up saying that footage would not play smooth on my powermac.

In the end, we exceeded client expectations, and I learned how to work in FCP for the first time
and love it.