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Re: Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why? All the media is the same, no file names are > being changed. Just copy the bin with the new > master clips to a blank project, > e-mail/network/FTP the project file to the other > editor. Couldn't be more simple. And if other > editors already had the hot audio in the timeline, > selby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
Well, that's a decent workaround. Makes things tricky when sharing media across multiple editors though. I do have a Mackie board laying around somewhere... maybe it's time to dust it off again.by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
Another thought- The audio in these clips is blown out and loud - my timeline is well adjusted and nice sounding. Going back and forth between the timeline and clips is requiring constant re-adjustment of the volume to stay comfortable... again, this seems like such a stupidly simple thing that I feel like I'm just forgetting something obvious!by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
Ha! Yes- I have speakers attached to my system... I'm going line-out to a little controller to speakers/subwoofer. For convenience I plug my headphones into the controller line out. I know I *could* send the FCP audio to the speakers and use the line-out for headphones or visa-versa... but what I want is to hear FCP at a lower volume then my music in my headphones. There are other people worby danajstrom - Café LA
Master Volume for FCP? - 12 years ago
Ok- so this feels like this is a stupid question but I've done a couple searches already, maybe I'm just not finding the right words. I'm working with footage from a party so the audio is mostly blown out and useless. I'm just pulling clips so I want to have some music playing in my headphones but still hear my FCP audio, just at a lower level. There's got to be something I'm missing, right?by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
We did shoot XDCam a few days so 2 out of three of our projects is using XDCam material... but the problem is not exclusive to those projects. One project was 100% ProRes 422 HQ and I was taking special care to not allow any JPEGs, MP3s, H.264 etc- as I thought the mixed formats may have been causing the issue. Still getting problems. That being said, it seems to be that when you're playinby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
I figured I'd see something a lot larger if Render Files were directed there... but low and behold, it does look like some render files got directed into the MacOS folder within the contents... inside MacOS: *Constant Frames Final Cut Pro (Unix Executable File) Plugins *Render Files (inside has about 2.4 GB in old render files and a Constant Frames Folder) *Thumbnail Cache Files I shouldby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
I started this thread almost a year ago and we haven't seen any improvement. We're a small production company running 3 FCP systems of various configurations. All Intel Mac Pros, one of them brand new and we're still seeing this problem on all of them. I've uninstalled the AJA on one machine, another has a BlackMagic card and the third doesn't have a video card at all. We have 2 Sata RAID dby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
Yeah- it's been terribly frustrating. I've been round and round with the reseller that sold us our newest system (where we first saw the problem) They blamed the AJA Kona 3 Drivers so I uninstalled them. They blamed the XDCam media we were using, but it also occurred on other projects. They blamed the project file size- I cut it down which helped the crashes a bit... not the video issue Thby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
Yeah- we haven't found a solution either. Recently our older Mac Pro even started doing this when it had seemed completely immune for more then a year. I feel like it's gotta be a RAM or Quicktime thing... I also haven't seen it on my Macbook Pro - however the projects I cut on my laptop tend to be much shorter and simpler. I've noticed somewhat better performance on our Mac Pros when we try tby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
We haven't solved the issue- we've just been working around it. Interestingly, because it's usually an unrendered (green preview) clips that starts the stuttering/flashing - a good work around for us has been to leave Auto-Render on so we're just working in rendered sequences pretty much all the time. I'm pretty sure FCP 7 doesn't do any background rendering... the auto render just kicks inby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
Just chiming in here. We managed to muscle through the project above and have since started a new show. This time around we have a lot fewer mismatching resolutions but we're still running into this issue with anything that's unrendered (both "Preview" and "Full" render bars) I also wanted to note that we have an older system... one of the earlier Intels (can't remember exaby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: relink problem "Unspecified Path" - 13 years ago
Hi Just wanted to offer that I've just solved this mystery for myself. Not sure how to explain other then tell you my story; Working on a large show across multiple edit systems. I had duplicated the project file and handed it to another editor with a copy of all the media to organize. Then I brought the newly organized project back on to my system, copied the organized bins into my projectby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
That sounds very similar to what we experienced... Unfortunately, we haven't gotten it solved (yet) and I plan to send the system in to our vendor as soon as I get all the media backed up. We found that we could simply hide Final Cut Pro for a few seconds to alleviate the flashing problem, but it worked less and less as we went throughout the day. Restarting was definitely the best answer, butby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
Currently we're having our biggest issues getting sequences to fully render. Where a lot of our playback problems are happening on "preview" renders and typically goes away when we render them, a lot of it craps out; Out of Memory Strangely, these parts will happily render in another codec such as 8-bit, 10-bit or DVCProHD... I'm starting to think ProRes isn't really the answer tby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
I'll certainly try that out - we're in full-speed finishing mode right now so I don't want to rock the boat too much at the moment. We did try switching the FCP setup to use stock Easy Setups to try and avoid the Kona Card altogether... is it possible that the card can still cause these problems even if we're not working in Kona World? I'm on the latest drivers, I was told by Pro Max (who asseby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
It's worth trying, but I really don't think that's the issue since I've been also cutting some shorter behind the scenes and promotional pieces from the same drive without any problems. anyway, we have almost 6TB of footage on that drive and we go to Color Correction on Thursday... my thought is that we just 'muscle through' the current show but make sure we're not running into this crap on tby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
It's a new machine. The only additions are an AJA Kona 3 card and a RocketRAID controller card (an eSATA connector to an 8TB SataMAX drive) This is our first project on it and things were fine to begin with... Along with this show, we've been cutting supplementary stuff - basic behind the scenes pieces and haven't had any problems with them.by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
Nothing really. It's pretty much stock FCP studio. We're working with a lot of 5D footage but that all gets conformed to ProRes 422 HQ at transfer. We have some 720p footage in our 1080 sequences, but they're all 30p... I'm pretty good at conforming EVERYTHING before handing it to the editor (I'm post sup) -- of course some clips can slip through the cracks but thus far, everything seems in orderby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
The crash logs tend to indicate different causes each time... (I'm using Digital Rebellions AWESOME Crash Analyzer too)... here's a zip file with the last 10 or so crashes. New development: all of our 'green' render bars (preview) have turned yellow (proxy).. at which point we noticed most of the stuttering is really happening once we play through those sequences... Additionally we're gettby danajstrom - Café LA
Flickering/Stuttering Playback From Timeline - 13 years ago
12 Core Mac Pro, AJA Kona 3, Final Cut Pro 7 We're having very strange playback problems in Final Cut Pro. After a few hours or so of editing, we start to get this; Sometimes, it can be temporarily solved by hiding FCP and going back, but usually a crash comes soon. Thinking that this was a Kona card issue, we've stopped using the AJA Kona presets and are just working in standard ProResby danajstrom - Café LA
Strange Match Frame Bug - 14 years ago
I'm having a horrible problem with the match frame function in Final Cut Pro. When I go to match frame a clip ( "F" ) it takes me to the end of the source clip and places the in/out markers both on the very last frame. It doesn't happen on all my clips, but I'm starting to see a pattern; it's with footage shot at 720p 30 (DVCProHD with a 2:2 pulldown) that was captured at 60fps by oby danajstrom - Café LA
Corrupt QuickTimes? - 15 years ago
Hi- I am usually always able to solve issues with problematic footage- I've worked at a few post houses where fixing bad files were a common task and if there's one mantra I've prided myself on all these years, it's; "if it can be played, it can be saved." So I've inherited this hard drive full of 30+ hours of footage for a documentary project- some P2, some XDCam, and of course....by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: DVD Authoring and QT conflict - 15 years ago
Hmm- may not be the problem but I have had issues with MPEGs when my MPEG-2 playback component was accidentally removed... Check: System/library/Quicktime look for something called AppleMPEG2Codec.component or QuicktimeMPEG2.component If you don't have one of these- you might need to purchase it from apple. When mine was removed, I searched everywhere to see how to get back at it (I hadby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Reconnect Media File Name Missing- Mystery Solved?!?! - 15 years ago
Okay- So I think now I can offer some insight. I did get around the problem just by relinking things manually (big hassle)- but found another project with the same problem this morning.... only this time EVERYTHING was; " is missing Alright, stay with me here; As some of my other recent posts have chronicled, there seems to be a string of bad G-Drive Qs out there. I, of course, have manaby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Problems with G-Drives? - 15 years ago
Well it's still happening. I've used another power strip as well as gone straight into the wall- so the "special" power strip wasn't the problem. I've been getting between 20 and 45 minutes of use from the drive before it hangs up and has to be switched off. Everything hangs- Final Cut Pro, Finder, anything that's open. Nothing works until I just physically switch the drive off. It'sby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Problems with G-Drives? - 15 years ago
>Screw that. There's a reason we don't let power go out arbitrary with editing equipment. The cost >is usually much higher than just the computer or drive shutting down; you're risking data loss. >Chuck that power strip and find something reliable. Yeah- I've taken it out of the equation; It is a "normal" strip that just has 3 spots for peripherals that shut off when a "by danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Loaded and Edited as SD - now want HD - 15 years ago
Ugh. HDV. Yeah- I can second that. HDV does carry it's own form of timecode- much like DV- the big difference is that in my experience it's not terribly frame accurate (this may have changed in recent versions of FCP though) since HDV is basically glorified MPEG-2 with GOPs and Inter-Frame Compressions... Easiest thing to do- is exactly what Shane said- media manager- create offline- set fby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Problems with G-Drives? - 15 years ago
NoahK Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have you turned off the put hard drives to sleep > whenever possible in System Preferences>Energy > Saver. That should help... > > Otherwise that it's happened so often and with a > solid brand like G-Tech would lead me more to the > belief that your laptop has a false contact in the > Fireby danajstrom - Café LA
Re: Thoughts/suggestions on best FCP filter for that film look for HD 720p24? - 15 years ago
I've worked with a lot of clients that are specifically after that filmic look- In most cases, people think that all they need is 24p- when in reality it's usually a culmination of things they're after. Here's a quick rundown of how I've tried to satisfy my clients in the past. Film grain- eh.. yeah. But think about it- all you're really doing is 'spoofing' a single bi-product of film. By addiby danajstrom - Café LA
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