[Valerie Shoaps]

Thanks David, deleting the thumbnail cache did it. Looking for ti, I found a nice article describing the files that FCP creates. I’m sure this will come in handy again.

Thanks again,
Valerie

[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi David,

1) “Make sure “Full” (and all others too) are checked in the render menu dropdown and try re-rendering.”

– Yes, I have those all checked and no go so…

2) “Open the render manager, delete all renders for your particular sequence, and re-render.”

– There weren’t any effects or reason to render in the first place. Just clips in the timeline. Out of 3 clips, first one was UR, then two and now all three. This has happened on three separate occasions and all of the material is the same res. I just tried deleting a clip and then putting it back in the sequence and it’s still unrendered according to the thumbnail, but has a grey render bar and plays fine (still).

All of the media is on an external drive. I’ve tried to start FCP a couple of times without having the drive connected, and it brought up the associated dialogue box. Could that be the cause?

MacBook Pro 2.4, 1 TB FW800/eSATA enclosure, FCP 6.0.5, QT 7.5.5, OSX 10.5.5

[Valerie Shoaps]

David,

It went well after I stopped trying to use the HQ ProRes. Everything else was good.

Thanks again,
Valerie

[Valerie Shoaps]

Thanks a lot, David. ProRes is it. That article makes it seem pretty cut and dry. However, I would’ve been freaking out with the capture being so far behind if I didn’t know about this.

Thanks a lot again. I ran away from all things video a few years ago, went back to still photography and massage school, and am coming back now. I used to work only with Avids, so everything is different now.

Valerie

[Valerie Shoaps]

Yikes! I had better bring some salt with me 😉

Thank Chris. I’ll start with those settings.

Valerie

[Valerie Shoaps]

Thanks

[Valerie Shoaps]

Do you have a Windows emulateor installed (not Bootcamp and WinXP)?

[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi Andy,

The program has been known to be pretty finicky with various soundcards. If it were I in that position, I’d try different drivers for the audio or even generic. After that, it gets kind of messy.

The second problem seems like you have a window overlapping another. It can be minute, and that will cause the problem. Very easy to miss on a notebook’s limited real estate. Try moving either window or using a different layout.

[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi,

You’ll want to format the drive in FAT32. The Mac will read that. Most of what you’ve done “should” be OK when you open up in the Mac, but anything that utilizes a Xpress Pro feature might be a problem. If it won’t kill you, bringing in cuts only sequences would be a good gamble.

[Valerie Shoaps]

Hi Vanja,

It’s been a while since I used Xpress DV 3.5.2, but if I recall the included effects correctly, you’re much better off doing this in Premiere. Unelegant solutions would be to import a pic and do a PiP effect manually following the subjects face with the position sliders. Not good. Another idea would be to import an alpha mask and pretty much do the same as above.

Use Premiere or After Effects for this one.