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Troy Gowen
December 11, 2012 at 2:34 pm in reply to: Imported video is shortened by AE

thanks, all. I’ll try those, although when I exported the same clip from FCP as a vanilla DV file, it imported to AE at the proper running time. So, I found a workaround, but I’m still confused why the difference in DVCPro HD and DV/DVCPro NTSC would affect the TIME rather than some other parameter.

Again, thanks for the suggestions on the comp.
Troy Gowen
December 10, 2012 at 10:01 pm in reply to: Imported video is shortened by AE

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Troy Gowen
June 12, 2012 at 7:32 pm in reply to: fcp7 and pixel aspect ratio for DVCPro HD and a complete idiot

Thanks, Dave. Short and to the point. It gets the job done, and it looks proper. Much appreciated.

Just out of curiosity, is this just a “problem” with codecs like DVCPro HD that squeeze video during shooting, or am I a lost cause when it comes to PAR? I vaguely understand that the DVCPro video uses rectangular pixels to squeeze 1280 down to 960, but I still don’t quite understand why too different versions of QT Player treat the video in such different ways. It seems to me that if one recognizes that the PAR is actually 1.33 rather than square, then there must be something in the video that tells it that, so why don’t all video players read that info and display properly.

arrggh…oh well, I’m not a professional, obviously, so I suppose I’ll just muster along in ignorance.

Thanks again.
Troy Gowen
February 22, 2011 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Motion 4 text behavior disappears in FCP

Solved, and it was me being a knuckle head.

My FCP project is HD 720, but I created the Motion title as Broadcast HD (which apparently runs at 60p). This seems to be the incompatibility that was gumming up the works.
Troy Gowen
February 22, 2011 at 3:14 pm in reply to: Motion 4 text behavior disappears in FCP

If it matters to anyone, I’m still trying to figure this one out.

Another clue (and a mystery)–the motion behavior shows up fine in the viewer when I select the clip in the timeline and play it in the viewer.

It STILL will not play correctly straight in the timeline (i.e. the Canvas).

I am absolutely puzzled as to how this can be. The text behavior in (Blur In) renders fine; the text behavior out (Blur Out) will not play at all.

Is this just one of those weird computer software glitches that I am supposed to live with? Or is there a fix that I am unaware of? If someone can at least tell me that I am wasting my time, I can let it go and try something else, I suppose.

(Another mystery–I tried the exact same build at home on my Motion 4 and FCP 7 there, and it worked flawlessly, as it should. So, it seems I am following proper procedure.)
Troy Gowen
February 21, 2011 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Motion 4 text behavior disappears in FCP

Any other suggestions? Has anyone else had this sort of problem, or is it just me being a knuckle head?
Troy Gowen
February 21, 2011 at 9:28 pm in reply to: Motion 4 text behavior disappears in FCP

Any other suggestions?
Troy Gowen
February 21, 2011 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Motion 4 text behavior disappears in FCP

Thanks, Mark. It was worth a try, and indeed the setting was not at Best, but it didn’t help.

I went back to Motion and changed the out behavior, just to see if it was that particular behavior that was the problem, but no dice. Fade Out does the same thing–shows up properly when I scrub the playhead in FCP, but disappears when I render the motion clip in FCP.

Arggh.