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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoFCS 2 installed and the early updates (not the new ones) are downloading this morning. I have to go pay the bills on the office edit system toady and will return to this matter in the evening. Thanks guys. By the way: I did have the Kona card installed during the OS install, and then after reading a recommendation here, I removed it before installing the Pro Apps. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoFresh FCS install going very late. Damn LiveType media.by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoHi Ben, thanks for your thoroughness. I investigated all of those factors both before and after my fresh system install. My two drive RAID had 600 Gigs left and runs around 100MB/sec. I monitor on external production speakers and a calibrated HDTV. The kind of "out of sync" Im talking about is variable and starts wherever the playhead is set and gets PROGRESSIVELY worse upon stuby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoThanks Ben. Yes I did those specific things before the first major re-install. Thanks for checking, though. Last night I reinstalled the OS to 10.5.2 and QuickTime up to 7.4.1. Tonight I'm doing the ProApps all the way up to BEFORE the most recent update, leaving FCP at 6.0.2. We'll see what happens and I'll report very late this evening. Thanks again. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoThe card? Interesting. Thanks, man. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoI am now reformatting the entire drive and starting from scratch yet again. This time I will skip the latest updates and see what happens. Thanks. -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoOh and the first example *does* sound similar to mine. I noticed that his FCP 6 system includes these recent updates and this quote is exactly what is happening to me: "Posted by: mediocrefilms Yes, I am getting the problem in the viewer as well as the canvas/timeline. But when I reveal the problem clip in the finder I can open and play it in the Quicktime Player perfectly. "by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoHa! The bad assumptions and deductive reasoning look pretty similar from here, Tom. Thats why I'm using words like "likely" and "I want to blame", rather than "I know for sure". But you are right, there is always another factor one hasnt thought of. For example, its been very hot here in LA. Grafx Joe, what OS are you running on your Intel? Anybody using aby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoOther reasons I want to blame the updates: ? I have an almost clone of this system at work, Kona Lh and everything, but without updates and it runs smooth as glass ? the problems started after installing the updates ? I did the most pure reinstall possible yesterday trying to fix the problem: erase drive, fresh OS, update OS and QT, fresh FCS 2, and then update of that, and finally theby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoSee this guy: and this guy Hmmmm. I wonder what the common denominator is. And I would have to reinstall FCP and QT at this point to see if it is the case. Which seems alomost impossible to do without once again doing a complete fresh build of the OS, but not installing latest updates. Who knows how many deep places the OS has changed with the combo of new QT and ProApp. -by Christopher SJ - Café LA Bad news in new updates! - 16 years agoAfter spending all of Sunday installing a fresh new system, hoping to fix my problems, I am now led to believe that there is a high probability the new Quicktime updates and/or FCS updates are causing major-major problems for some of us. These problems include: 1) Stuttering during new captures, which is permanent in the file. Throws clip and file out of sync after stutters. 2) Progby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: New! Pro Res HD video stutters after QT 7.4.5 update!! - 16 years agoUh oh, Im getting it here too. I think this has to do with recent updates. Im making a new posting at the top to sound the alarm. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Audio WAY out of Sync when moving from FCP5 to FCP6 - 16 years agoUh oh, Im all of a sudden getting it here too. I think this has to do with recent updates. Im making a new posting at the top to sound the alarm. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Virtual Clusters not working - 16 years agoI dont know a single user who doesnt have issues with Compressor. And now, after attempting to "uninstall" and re-install Compressor 3 because of issues, and after the latest updates in QT and ProApps, I'm getting so much buggy stuttering and stalling in FCP clips that I am now going to erase the entire boot drive and install everything from scratch. Just re-installing FCS2 was noby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Final Cut Studio UPDATE out - 16 years agoI was hot for some of the Goth girls, for sure. Is Goth Emo now? Or are Goth and Emo just cousins? In my day (late 80's), the "old" people called Goth, "punk", so I had to correct them and put a Cure CD on. OK, what codec now renders in 4:2:2 that didnt used to? And why would I still not use the "Render as ProRes" in my HDV or XDCAM native Sequence? -by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: HD workflow advice in advance - 16 years agoTom wrote: No documentary is for TV and promotions for the larger project which is an Imax film. First release will be in North America and then in Europe. I was not asked prior to the shoot or else I think I would have asked him to shoot 23.98fps. But he shot in 24fps and I thought it best to capture and edit in 24fps. Would Coinema Tools be the best way to convert 24fps footage to 23.98fps.by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: 23.98 output to 59.94 - 17 years agoHi Graeme! What about that pesky 29.97 archive in our 23.98 Sequences? Any of your tools help? Compared to Compressor? Thanks, -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: 23.98 output to 59.94 - 17 years agoThats a great tutorial. I'm imagining some kind of sequel to that. A sort of Wikipedia or Digg or Urban Dictionary style database of "coolest format conversions in Compressor" that everyone could submit to and everyone could judge as peers. The most liked go to the top of the list, ect. Radical democracy for Compressor. -Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA GOOD QUESTION! and Idea - 17 years agoThis is a good question! I am in documentary and editing both a 720p piece for one client and a 1080p for another. Both are 23.98. Both need to add 29.97 archive. In fact, I predict that almost ALL docs I ever work in the future, for the rest of my life, will need to add standard def 29.97 archive. Its just too ubiquitous. Of course these clips are stuttering for me in my 23.98 Sequencby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: HD workflow advice in advance - 17 years agoThats the beauty of 23.98. Just make a DVD with DVD Studio Pro and encode your movie without adding any frames to it at all. You will have a 24 (23.98) frame DVD, which is fine because every NTSC DVD player out there will add the pulldown and make it 29.97. This is what feature film DVDs do (to my understanding). -Christopherby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: HD workflow advice in advance - 17 years agoMany of us here, and now I, work in 23.98 instead of actual 24 because it translates on the fly so well to a HDTV and NTSC SDTV. And it remains compatible with film out and translates easily to PAL. And DVDs look better because you can get more footage on one at a higher bit rate. FCP and a display/capture card make editing a "24p" project out to a monitor a breeze with the live addeby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: HD workflow advice in advance - 17 years agoAlso, as far as workflow goes, remember that, more than likely, you want to capture as 1080psf 23.98 instead of actual "24". Its the format that plays with all of the other formats so well. Its the United Nations of formats. And anyone want to chime in about ProRes HQ instead of uncompressed? I'm just getting my feet wet with it but man, my F900 HDCAM 24p stuff looks gooood in thaby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: just for FUN - your industry predictions for 2008 - 17 years agoI predict someone will find the Yak in FCP 6 and report here to us the method for finding it. -CJby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Is Firewire 800 raid ok for HDV and DVCPro editing - 17 years ago"G-RAID2's drop the chain to 16MB/s, ours don't" What makes a G-RAID2 go only 16 MB a second? Really?by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: just for FUN - your industry predictions for 2008 - 17 years agoRe: FCP interface UI redesign. Yeah, a LOT of OS 9 stuff still in FCP. I believe you are right and we will see an interface that looks like the current Log and Capture window for HDV and the Log and Transfer window -- those are the new look and much more "OS X Pro App like". Here are more predictions: XDCAM-HD and XDCAM-HD EX will become major major popular shooting formats andby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: POLL v2: Does HDV actually suck or not? - 17 years agoRight. And guys... Geez I know this is an old topic, but man, can we use the term "HD" properly. "High Definition" is a container word that holds the whole spectrum of quality, from the low end to the high end. I watch HD podcasts on iTunes. I look at HDV tapes that are HD, ect. You couldn't broadcast full signal from a little HDV camera over an SD broadcast tower anby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: Ugh! 24 fps output issue - 17 years agoSee if you can throw that 24 footage into a 23.98 Sequence. That may be less gymnastics and then let the card and software add the pulldown realtime on output. Andy, thats the beauty of 23.98. It works great with EVERYTHING. It has to be the most flexible and compatible frame rate in the world right now. Film DVD NTSC PAL Web All with minimal problems. And going to NTSC is the eaby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: POLL v2: Does HDV actually suck or not? - 17 years agoDan, I'm just telling you what I saw with my own eyes on HD monitors at the LAFCPUG meeting, and talking to and reading DP reports. And the vignetting problem is gone now as I understand it. The few that got out with it are getting fixed. I'm telling you, as a documentary editor of ten years who has worked with the Sony, Panasonic, and JVC under $10,000 camera's footage many times, thisby Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: POLL v2: Does HDV actually suck or not? - 17 years agoIn FCP 6, why not just RENDER in ProRes but keep other footage native?by Christopher SJ - Café LA Re: POLL v2: Does HDV actually suck or not? - 17 years agoYou are right, I didnt vote. I'm a "still not sure". I would use it for weddings, EPKs and news magazines, but not for feature docs or narrative features. Oh, and it makes really really nice SD. And with frame blending and down rezzing, 60i becomes really nice 30p SD at that. So that is of value. - Christopher S. Johnsonby Christopher SJ - Café LA |
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