[Tom Matthies]

Just hit the left and right arrows to jog one frame forward or back.

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[Tom Matthies]

Also consider what is needed after the edit when considering FCPX. Do you need to export OMF’s for audio sweetening? Stick with FCP7.

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[Tom Matthies]

Try looking at your video in FCP with the canvas set to 100% to see both fields. Are the problems showing up now? Maybe you’re only seeing one field and the problems are on the other fields?

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[Tom Matthies]

Crazy thought here…I’ve never tried this and it goes against conventional final Cut logic but…

What if you use a USB drive for your render drive? We all know you should not use USB drives for editing, but during the render process, the computer is just dumping off little pieces of the rendered timeline to the disk. No real time playback involved at all. The Firewire and USB busses should be different animals and shouldn’t interfere with each other (too much). After the render is finished, copy it back onto your Firewire drive for proper playback. You should be able to preview the final render from the USB drive to verify it’s there, but put it back on the Firewire drive for use after that.

This way all source files are coming from one drive and all rendered files are going to a different drive. Renders should only be limited by computer speed and drive through-put.
Might be worth a try?
If you do try it, let us all know if it made any difference in the total render time. If it works, it might be a good work around for people cutting on laptops with a single Firewire port.

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[Tom Matthies]

What camera are you shooting with? Most cameras have at least two audio inputs.
If you only have a single input to your camera, you can always mix the outputs from your two receivers my using a small mixer or even an appropriate “Y” cable. Just remember that once they are mixed together, they can’t be separated again. Kind of like mixing paint…

Don’t try to use two transmitters and only a single receiver. You’ve already heard the results from doing that. Use both receivers on DIFFERENT frequencies.

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[Tom Matthies]

There’s your problem. No, you cannot run two transmitters on the same frequency and tune them on a single receiver. You are hearing the interference of the two transmitters “fighting” and interfering with each other and of the single receiver trying to lock to one transmitter or the other. Make sure that if you are going to use more than one wireless mic that they are all set to different frequencies otherwise you will get the interference you experiences.

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[Tom Matthies]

Field order correct?

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[Tom Matthies]

Although…If you are using only a single raid, you are pulling both the source files from and the rendered files back the same drive forcing it to take turns reading then writing. You might save time by using two drives, one for source files and another for the finished render files. It won’t speed up the actual rendering but it will reduce the amount of time the computer is physically accessing the single drive. Not sure if daisy-chaining the drives will choke it down and negate the two drive advantage, however.

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[Tom Matthies]

I didn’t mention hat I was using the filters in a Final Cut timeline.

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[Tom Matthies]

Hmmm…If I double click on the transition and open the controls, I don’t see the option you mentioned above.??

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