Just got Final Cut Studio over the weekend and got it installed. Everything went well until I started using the included DVD tutorials that are included to introduce you to the new features in Final Cut Studio. For me it is an upgrade from FCP 4.5.
The Training DVD's include a FCP 5 lesson on building a trailer that is to be loaded into the Timeline at DV-NTSC Anamorphic. Once the Anamorphic clips were imported into the bins, I began to bring clips into the Timeline per Instructions. The have speed changes already built into them. So, the lesson focused on performing speed ramping on some of the clips and adding Fade In and Fade out Dissolves as transitions. Sounded simple until playback. Dropped frames galore.
Per direction at the outset of the Interactive Tutorial, I setup Rt Extreme using the new Dynamic Realtime playback feature. Dropped frames at each Dissolve. I even went so far as to bring the playback quality all the way down. Still dropped frames at each Dissolve and each Keyframe where speed ramping would occur.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Is this something that I can correct or it this a real bug?
Keith Hill
Lighted Path Films
MAC G5 2Ghz, 1.5 RAM, OS X Tiger (10.4.1), FCP 5, Motion 2. DVD Studio Pro 4, Autodesk Combustion (v.3.0.4; MAC)
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