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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Drop Frame Time Code Reference Point - 16 years agoI hope this is not too off topic to annoy, but I'm sure many of you have a quick and easy answer for me. I have just finished mastering my film on HD at 23.98 and my deliverables requirement is to provide a drop frame time code DigiBeta cam for broadcast. SOP for mastering to Warner Bros. specs require 30 sec black, 1 minute bars and tone, 10 sec black, 10 sec slate, 10 sec black, first fraby Jackson - Café LA Re: Compressor Job Chaining - 16 years agoHere is a hypothetical situation for you: Say you have an HD Master that needs to be down-converted to an SD Master because your client has requested both HD and SD Masters. They also want from that SD Master a variety of outputs for DVD, Web, DVD-ROM. iPhone, etc. So instead of painstakingly creating all those SD media children from an HD master (basically spending a lot off time just tossinby Jackson - Café LA Re: I cannot hear the audio - 16 years agoThe first thing to check is this menu tree: Edit > Audio Playback > Built-in Audio (that should be checked) This will allow you to hear the audio through the Mac speaker. - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: P2 Log and Import - Lost Sync - 16 years agoYes, both audio and video were recorded concurrently and are coming off the P2 card. It's beyond just a sync drift, it's as if the audio is playing back faster than the video but without a pitch shift. Being that today is a holiday, I took my camera into the office and tried to do the Log and Transfer on one of the edit bay boxes. (We are running FCP 6.0.2 on OSX 10.4 systems there) Sameby Jackson - Café LA Re: P2 Log and Import - Lost Sync - 16 years agoI never said it wasn't operator error. Nor did I blame the camera. In fact I'm quite sure it's probably much like 90% of all posts on these forums and IS operator error / ignorance. That being said, I fail to see the difference of my HVX and P2 cards mounted as firewire devices and doing the Log and Transfer vs. copying them first to another drive and then using Log and Transfer, since theyby Jackson - Café LA P2 Log and Import - Lost Sync - 16 years agoI decided to pull out the ol' HVX200 and shoot a simple promo spot for a charity and wow do I regret it. I shot about 4 minutes at 720p 23.98 onto the P2 card and after my PCMICA interface on my PowerBook G4 (OSX 10.5) refused to mount the P2 card, I hooked the HVX up via firewire and imported the P2 Media via Log and Import. Now when I view the clips in the clip viewer the audio loses sync iby Jackson - Café LA Re: Unrecognized Frame Rate (23.98) - 16 years agoAh ha! Well that certainly makes sense. So, DVDSP Adds the extra frames to the video file and flags them, then progressive scan dvd players remove the flagged frames? So the file size is smaller because it is a true 24 fps and DVDSP adds the pulldown on the fly? I think this is making sense. Thanks Adolfo.by Jackson - DVD Studio Pro Re: DVD Studio Pro FEATURE REQUESTS: Post them HERE - 16 years agoYes yes YES! Blu-Ray NOW! I have an immediate need, and the Adobe Creative Suite offers Blu-Ray creation support in their Adobe Encore application. Apple has gone from industry leader to playing catch-up again. In fact the only current way to incorporate Blu-Ray into a Mac platform even for data storage is using Toast. No native support what-so-ever at this point. You think this has anythby Jackson - DVD Studio Pro Unrecognized Frame Rate (23.98) - 16 years agoDVDSP is mis interpreting the frame rate on mu video asset. The asset was encoded into MPEG-2 in Compressor at a frame rate of 23.98. If I open the asset in the QuickTime player the Movie Inspector reports that it is indeed a 23.98 asset. When imported into DVDSP the asset inspector reports the file as a 29.97 NDF asset. What gives? According to the DVDSP Manual, DVDSP should recognize theby Jackson - DVD Studio Pro Re: color not working - 16 years ago> trust me on this one - Dont bother. > > Color is far from finished and still has too many > flaws to be considered in a workflow. Color does have its funkiness. But, I would not be quick to judge on its usefulness as a powerful tool. One needs to learn how to use such a tool and it's idiosyncrasies, but it has brought color correction to my post house and therefore some newby Jackson - Color Re: Offline to Online Workflow - 16 years agoOur basic workflow does not change if we are mastering either HDCam or D-5. What we receive from the offline session differs with every editor who does a cut. Each editor has their own way of doing things. Where our conform process differs is which color grading path we are going to take. The feature we are days away from mastering stayed Apple all the way through. FCP offline, conform iby Jackson - Café LA Re: Offline to Online Workflow - 16 years agoWe sync our decks, (HDCam, HDCamSR, Digibeta) and our Kona 3 to house sync (AJA Gen10). We are able to make frame accurate edits (both insert and assemble edits) to our decks from FCP. - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: OT- G5- old but CHEAP- should I buy it? - 16 years agoI'm writing this from a Dual G5 running leopard and I have yet to run into any trouble. Knock on wood! - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: Offline to Online Workflow - 16 years agoThat's the learning curve of configuration. Every complex system has it's pitfalls. AVID is certainly not bulletproof, neither is FCP But, being a Post Facility that runs exclusively on FCP we found the cost saving benefit of running FCP systems are quite happy. We are currently spitting out deliverables in HDCam SR 4:4:4 10bit Log which is quite taxing on bandwidth! That being said once weby Jackson - Café LA Re: OT- G5- old but CHEAP- should I buy it? - 16 years agoYou are going to be disappointed if you try to run Color on a laptop. Just want you to have all the facts before you separate you and your money. - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: AVC INTRA CODEC - 16 years agoThe reason it's telling you need an Intel box is that the Panasonic codec does not yet run natively in Final Cut Pro. What you are effectively doing is using the codec to convert from AVC-I to ProRes 422 for editing in FCP. Interestingly (of frustratingly), in order to capture ProRes, Apple sys. req. are a Intel chipset, but playback is supported on a G5. I don't know specifically why you arby Jackson - Café LA Re: HVX 200 - 16 years agoUPDATE I just got off the phone with AppleCare because the link to the FCP 5.0.4 update is non-functioning. If you have a current AppleCare agreement, they may send you FCP 5.0.4 burned onto a CD. That is what I had them do for me, since there is a KONA Driver 4.0/FCS2 hardware compatibility issue where they don't work together on a specific codec. - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: HVX 200 - 16 years agoI am assuming you are on G5's or earlier PowerPC chip-set CPU's. The 5.1 FCP update made the product a Universal Binary version. I'm sure we all remember that Apple forced us to turn in our install disks and pay to upgrade to 5.1. It was a nominal fee ($50 if I remember correctly, to offset the production price of the new DVD's, blah blah blah.) So, your best bet is to upgrade to 5.0.4 for P2by Jackson - Café LA Re: Stuttering Playback HDCam-SR Uncompressed 10-Bit RGB - 16 years agoUPDATE: From the Release Notes - KONA 3/3X/2, LH/LHe, & LS/LSE Version 4 Univ. Binary: "There is an issue with video output and Dual Link HD Log RGB and RGB 4:4:4 1080PsF 23.98/24 for driver version 4.0. If you are working in either of these formats, AJA recommends that you continue using Final Cut Pro version 5.1.x with the KONA version 3.4 driver. (This restriction will be removedby Jackson - Café LA Re: Firestore Help - 16 years agoIt's been a while since my P2 import days so please forgive me if this leads you astray. I remember having some trouble upon import with a few tricky cards and also remember a locked text file on the P2 card titled 'lastclip.txt'. I have rescued otherwise lost media by unlocking, and rewriting this text file. I apologize on being so vague but I don't remember the specifics. I'm hoping thisby Jackson - Café LA Re: Stuttering Playback HDCam-SR Uncompressed 10-Bit RGB - 16 years agoYes, The Expansion Slot Utility has been configured to Apple and AJA spec. Just for fun we swapped the cards around to see if that would change anything. It did not. So, the cards are now back in their original configuration. Fibre Channel HBA in the top slot (per Apple spec.,) and the KONA 3 in slot 2. Both slots 1 and 2 are assigned 4 lanes each. The 3rd slot is vacant. Slot 4 is the ATIby Jackson - Café LA Re: Stuttering Playback HDCam-SR Uncompressed 10-Bit RGB - 16 years agoAnother update folks, I have copied a piece of my captured media to a portable drive and it was uploaded onto another system running the same configuration as my system. The stuttering continued. There was some discussion of this being a new issue in FCS2. So the testing and trouble shooting continues. I put a clean system drive into my box and loaded FCP 5 onto that system drive. Instaby Jackson - Café LA Re: Stuttering Playback HDCam-SR Uncompressed 10-Bit RGB - 16 years agoWhat version of FCP are you using.by Jackson - Café LA Re: Set me up- help please- its been 5 years! - 16 years agoThe Kona cards will do a down-convert in realtime. And FCP adds the frames (on the fly) if you are doing a pull-up from 23.98 clips to 29.97 output. If you cut in HD (which we do) and you need to make a DVD check disk or viewing copy (which we do) you can have the Kona and FCP do the pull up to 29.97 and down-convert to an NTSC composite signal. You then take the composite out from the konaby Jackson - Café LA Re: imac 20" 2400XT limitations? - 16 years agoA low frame rate is what you will get. But FCP color correction is pretty robust, and should not be discounted just because there is a massive piece of software looming next to it the dock. I wouldn't worry about what the future requirements of FCP will be. A large portion of FCP users like and use FCP because it will run on their laptops. (I know I do!) I doubt that Apple would want that dby Jackson - Café LA Re: Set me up- help please- its been 5 years! - 16 years agoI'd be a liar if I said those thoughts don't echo in my Virgo brain! - Jacksonby Jackson - Café LA Re: Set me up- help please- its been 5 years! - 16 years agoWe have been doing this workflow for a while now. HDCAM original camera masters or HDCAM telecine masters (if we shoot film). We cut in DVCPro HD 720p 23.98 and avoid all the timebase issues. The only time our projects ever see 29.97 is in the final deliverables if they require a television master. It's a really lean and mean workflow that impresses, as we are doing HD offline!!! The Dby Jackson - Café LA Re: imac 20" 2400XT limitations? - 16 years agoYou were humming along just fine, until you mentioned Color. Color is the most processor & graphics processor hungry app of the suite. And where it starts to limp is in realtime playback, unless you have a robust enough graphics card. Having a lesser card (I believe that the current iMacs will run it) will only hamper how fast a frame rate you can play back your media in Color. You shouby Jackson - Café LA Re: Stuttering Playback HDCam-SR Uncompressed 10-Bit RGB - 16 years agoSo, its been 5 days into the troubleshoot and still no answers. The new Kona 3 card arrived today and we did a swap out. Issue still remains. At least we know it's not a Kona card issue. Also, my copy of Disk Warrior 4 came today and I did a rebuild of the directory of the System Drive and tried to rebuild the RAID directory and I got a funny little message that said I needed to be runninby Jackson - Café LA Re: avchd or hdv - 16 years agoHave you considered DVCPro HD? You could use the Panasonic HVX-200 camera. Looks great and no "Long GOP" issues and DVCPro HD is supported by FCP 5.by Jackson - Café LA |
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