[Tom Donnelly]

OK, here’s what I tried:

– Created new sequence
– Selected an “Easy Setup” (tried multiple, like the one you suggested above, as well as many others including Aja setups.)
– Dragged a piece of my footage into the sequence
– FCP asked if I wanted to conform the sequence to same specs of clips, I say yes (again, tried clips of different resolutions and codecs, same results with all…)
– All of the combos and scenarios brought up the same jagged, single-field-ish looking display on my monitor. Tried s-video as well as composite out of the Aja.

Argh.

Tom

[Tom Donnelly]

Great idea – I did try that, however. I thought that was a no-brainer, but no luck.

BUT – thinking now…maybe I will dupe and rename the REF files themselves and try to relink + Replace File.

Have moved on to work temporarily in a project that actually works – will try the rename + relink tonight, if anyone has any other ideas please keep them coming…

Thanks,

TD

[Tom Donnelly]

I have no problem getting “some” audio in this scenario, s-video and RCA out of a VHS player, but for some reason one of the supposed stereo tracks is always nearly mute. The levels on the preview indicator are practically non-existent for the 2nd channel, no matter what I do, press or try, and then of course in the timeline I am left with one loud track and one with just a little noise, mainly. I pan the top track to the center and pray for the day I never have to capture from VHS again.

TD

[Tom Donnelly]

I am using a CRT monitor w/ s-video in with my own custom “easy setups” (some are ProRes HQ, some DVCPro HD, some using Apple Intermediate Codec depending on footage – I typically allow the sequence to set itself when it asks as I drop the first clip in.)

I tried the color bars and they look fine, no jaggies or apparent missing field, even when I rotate them to get diagonal angles.

Does this help to diagnose?

[Tom Donnelly]

Thanks, that is super-helpful.

I also found that I had not been setting each FCP marker to be a “chapter marker” in the marker dialog box (hit “m” twice). Once I did this everything worked smoothly even when batching with compressor…

Thanks!

[Tom Donnelly]

True, I tested that – but I have many movies daily that need this treatment, pus other formats to export to. Batch processing with Compressor really my only option.

That being said, I knew it had to be user error – if I hit “m” twice and bring up the marker dialog box and manually set each one to “chapter marker” it works. Duh. I had just been setting plain ol’ markers in FCP.

Thanks for the help, all…

[Tom Donnelly]

No – final output is just what I am trying to spit out from Compressor – just a quicktime movie, h264, with chapter markers.

[Tom Donnelly]

When I set output to Stereo and solo track 2, same result – see audio levels bouncing, nothing coming out of speakers.

I can use the “donwmix” button on the audio mixer and then I can hear track 2 solo’ed by itself, but it is totally bugging me that no sound comes out of that track when I see healthy green levels without using “downmix.”. I feel like there should be a way to hear track 1 coming out of my left speaker and track 2 out of my right, no?

[Tom Donnelly]

The point of converting to DVCPro 50 was so that the person cutting this (on a low-end system, w/ FW800 Lacie Drives, no RAID) would be able to edit without a ton of overhead.

Afraid that – and correct me if I’m wrong – that Apple Uncomp will require faster drives and system, no?

[Tom Donnelly]

Tried it – same result.