Tunaking
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I have used MacPros with both 4 Gigs and 8 gigs of RAM and the Kona 3 and I have not had issues with dropped frames in ProRes at all. Perhaps this issue was addressed with a firmware update lately? Or there may have been bad RAM involved (particularly in the person who started this thred…as 5 Gigs is not available as a build to order option on the Apple site, so 3rd party RAM was probably involved).
Anyway, this may need a little more investigation.
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Days and days without reboot. Maybe once every three days?
And I’m not kidding.
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After more testing, it seems that only the ProRes (non-HQ) is possible on the Quad G5. I did hit dropped frames on the HQ.
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Capturing to ProRes (10-bit) with a Quad G5 works fine with 1080P from a D5 so far.
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Sean,
>>BTW, I just remembered CT won’t let you do a reverse telecine with DV footage.
Not true. People use every day. It was designed to do this. It’s been doing this since it was Film Logic.
For some stupid reason, it assumes that DV footage must be 3:2:2:3 advanced pulldown, not regular 3:2 pulldown. So you’d have to convert it to uncompressed or JPEG first.
>>Not true at all.
Go with the Kona/Decklink solution if you can. Definitely the best workflow.
>>You have to watch out with the Kona/Decklink solution. When the clips are reversed they remember their 29.97 timecode (they are not converted to 23.98). If you look at the timecode window in FCP for the clips, they jump timecode numbers. If you plan to online in HD this can cause problems, because you can make edits in your offline that happen above frame 23 (like frame 29). Use caution.
Sean
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I had a problem like this in previous versions of FCP (haven’t tried with 5.1.2 yet). But CYMK images (I had JPEGs) would drive FCP crazy. I converted them to RGB and the crashes stopped. Long shot, but check.
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You are incorrect. Many people use Cinema Tools to slow-mo shots from 29.97 to 23.98. Also in some cases, like PAL 24@25 workflows the conform function is essential. This would indeed be a problem if it is clipping off the end of the shot.
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Only the FCP Studio Crossgrade ($49) doesn’t come with serial numbers. All the DVD Studio Pro, FCP 4, Motion, etc upgrades do come with new serial numbers.
Still morally questionable though, especially if they want >$300 for the upgrade Universal version.
A.
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“One frame remnants aren’t invisible, just really small” like one frame right? BUT in some cases they are really invisible. no matter how far you zoom in they are not there, nor do they appear when you scroll, shuttle, or play through them.”
I have never seen these one frame (invisible) remnants in five years of editing in FCP. And I have not read about them on the boards before you mentioned them.
Is there a repeatable way to create them?
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There are improvements to the Media Manager in 5.1. It has worked good for us so far. It’s worth the $49 to upgrade. 5.04 was still flakey.