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Tom Step
October 27, 2010 at 11:07 pm in reply to: migrating from Motion 2 to 4

So new gear is in, and I’m having issues with opening old Motion 2 project. Some open some don’t. They are basic animated lower thirds. One file used fonts not available on this box so it replaced it with another, but it OPENED. Some files just crash the app, regardless whether I open them from FCP, the original, or “untitiled” choice. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to what works. Any adice on how to troubleshoot this? I’m sure my editors wanna hear “just remake that in the new version…”

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
May 20, 2010 at 4:21 am in reply to: setting scratch disk with two locations

Doug, your last sentence is the giveaway. Should know better than to outthink the Apple engineers…

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
May 18, 2010 at 10:34 pm in reply to: setting scratch disk with two locations

You both have a point in letting FCP just set up it’s own folders. That is how we ran the RAID tho I did set the render files to go to the 2NDDRIVE, so as to keep only the captured media protected (you can always re-render, but it does take up a bit of space on the RAID, and noone ever deleted these till the drive was full). I thought this method would be easier when we migrate to new boxes (ie. backup the whole project folder, then move the media folders into FCDocs>CaptureScratch>ProjectName when we migrate.

So while your solution is certainly viable (and the system is currently set up that way), the theoretical question still stands…

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
March 21, 2007 at 11:53 pm in reply to: FCP not flagging 16:9 capture as anamorphic (automatic 4:3 distort)

So I did the Compressor test and the file created is still incorrect. And my 360Systems ImageServer will not play it (as opposed to playing the QTconversion .dv). One thing I noticed is that the Apple setting for creating DV within Compressor defaults to .mov for a file extension and you have to change it to .dv manually (weird). I have 2 screenshots with all the settings, but don’t know how to post them… (small jpegs)

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
March 21, 2007 at 9:46 pm in reply to: FCP not flagging 16:9 capture as anamorphic (automatic 4:3 distort)

There are no options in QTConversion except DV/DVCPro/DVCPro50 and screen aspect 4×3/16×9 for me to change anything. Compressor conversion settings are more detailed, and they do come up with 720×480… I’m running a test now to convert via Compressor to see what happens…

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
March 20, 2007 at 11:35 pm in reply to: Anamorphic vs. Letterboxig in post for online distribution

how specifically would I convert a 16×9 SD DVCPro50 originated material to square pixel DV stream for server playout?

Thanks,
Tom
Tom Step
March 20, 2007 at 11:17 pm in reply to: FCP not flagging 16:9 capture as anamorphic (automatic 4:3 distort)

I shot 16×9 DV50 on Panny SDX900. Captured into FCP with anamorphic flag set to on. Edited on 16×9 sequence, then nested that in a 4×3 and rendered it. Looks correct on the Apple display in FCP Canvas but when I make a .dv file (QTConversion with 4×3 preserve aspect with letterbox settings) for server playout, the image is “squat”. Playing back the same file via QTPlayer looks “squat” also. Properties for the .dv are 640×480 pixels native. When I apply a percent increase of 100% by 112% the letterbox image seems correct but of course the dv dimensions do not. Seems the letterbox gets shrunk to about 90% vertically of what it should be… I also tied to change the pixel aspect ratios, but there’s just too many variables to run the tests… Please help

Thanks,
Tom