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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
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Re: Cafe LA-X - This is quite witty a name for a forum. - 13 years ago
Considering the impact of FCPX on the collective 'insides' of editors everywhere, I would call it Cafe LA XATIVE...by Kingg33 - Café LA - X
FCPX and Color? - 13 years ago
Quick question that I can't seem to find yet here... Will FCPX work with Color? By the looks of most comments, my guess is a resounding 'no'... Which is one more reason I'm sticking with 7.0 for the time being...by Kingg33 - Café LA - X
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Hi Dave, It's been some time since I have dealt with this, but I thought you'd be interested to know where things are at. I got sick of trying things through Compressor and being unhappy with the encode with or without the green edge being resolved, so I farmed it out to Cine-o-matic in Minneapolis. I sent them a self-contained Quicktime (Apple ProRes 422 HQ), and they used Cinema Craft toby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Great, I'll do that. I have a lot of work on another job tomorrow, but I'll try to get it done. If not, it'll have to be Monday. Thank you so much! Gregby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Oh, also, in case this info is of any use, I noticed something odd today in my outputs that I've never seen before either. I output a self-contained QT of five minutes of the film, and used it to generate an SD downconversion QT, as I mentioned above, but I did so a half dozen times with a half dozen slightly different settings in Compressor. Some had Frame Controls on, some off, minor sharpenby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
BTW, any chance you're a fan of Run DMC? I couldn't help but think of DMC with your pseudonym...by Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Hi Dave I copied and pasted my edit into a 1920x1080 square pixel ProRes 422 HQ timeline (with high precision YUV render), "Sent it" to Compressor, chose the preset DVD Best Quality 90 minutes... and the green edge is as prominent as ever. Ugh. This is driving me nuts. I took some screen grabs of it, but I don't know how to attach to this forum, in case you want to see it. So of aby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Great, thanks so much for all this! I'm familiar with Nattress' stuff but don't own it. I appreciate your time in answering this issue. Gregby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Yes, this is very helpful, thank you! It's just frustrating because I've used Compressor for ages and haven't had this issue before. I'm going to look at some old outputs of other projects that I burned to DVD and see if it's there too. I would notice this though, so it's perplexing. I'd love to use Cinema Craft but I can't afford it ($700 for software plugin to Compressor). I haven't heard ofby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Hi Dave, Thanks for the info. I have tried 15 GOP settings before and still the edge appears, but I'll try one of the presets. The project is already in a ProRes 422 timeline, fully rendered and ready to go (although the pixel dimensions are still set on HD 1440x1080). Are you saying I should nest it all and drop it into a square/1920x1080 sequence? I'm not afraid of any 'advanced' infoby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
I'll try your suggestion later tonight. I think I have tried it actually, but I've tried so many tests it's hard to remember. And yes I'm not outputting the whole film for each test, just a minute or two sample. I generate my own MPEG2 settings based on how I understand them (although not being a trained compressionist) in trying to achieve the best quality I can. My feeling is that with a lowby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Quick update on the above situation. The green edge appears throughout the entire clip, not just on certain shots. It's harder to see in certain shots because they're brighter. Also, it's not a solid green line, but a green cast to the image in the last few pixels all the way around the frame. I'm finding that this occurs when I in fact have Frame Controls on. I was only able to get rid of theby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Thin green edge around frame of MPEG2 output - 14 years ago
Hello, I'm creating a DVD using outputs from Compressor. I have an hour long program, plus DVD extras that are short 1-minute pieces or so. I notice that when I playback the DVD on my laptop, which shows the edges of the frame, I can see a thin green edge to many shots...but not all. E.g. it doesn't show up in all black background title credits, but then shows up in the first shot of the film,by Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Pulsating artifacts in MPEG-2 Output - 14 years ago
Hi everyone, Sorry I haven't responded myself, I hadn't received a reply to my question in some days so forgot about it. I read somewhere that you need to select "Progressive" in the field dominance selection in the inspector to fix the pulsating problem, NOT to leave it at "Automatic". Also, I found that if I chose a 6 GOP length, it disappeared. Don't know which ofby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Pulsating artifacts in MPEG-2 Output - 14 years ago
(I'm running 3.5.3, on an 'early 2009' 2.66 Mac Pro 8-core, FCP 7, 8 GB Ram) Hello, I'm having a strange problem with Compressor in outputting MPEG-2 files for DVD creation, something I've done now for years without issue. I'm creating the MPEG-2 from a 1920x1080 ProRes QT output of my 60-minute film, rather than 'sending' directly from FCP to Compressor because of another problem (titles gby Kingg33 - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Combing in Quicktime 7 but not 10 - also, SD to HD Uprez rec? - 14 years ago
I've run into an odd phenom. I have a project on an old Mac G5 running Quicktime 7.6. It's a SD-DV project edited on a timeline with ProRes (regular flavor) that I output As Quicktime Movie, as I always do. When I play it back in QT 7, I see combing all over the place, but not when I playback the same file on my new Mac Pro with QT 10. I don't recall ever having this problem in the past with theby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
Wow, interesting bit of news there 'strypes', thanks for that. For anyone interested, I just played the QT file back from my 2 TB G Tech drive connected via Firewire 800, and had no drop outs or stuttering at all. I also checked that drive with iDefrag to see how it looks, and there's very little fragmentation on it (and the file in question is not at all fragmented), whereas my laptop's hardby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
Hi Dave Thanks for the great info. I haven't heard about iDefrag, and will try it out. I vaguely remember Mac touting that the new OSX didn't need 'defraging' when it first came out, so I got to thinking of that issue as an OS 9 and earlier problem. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but it stuck. Anyway, I really appreciate the info. When you say clone, are you saying to simply copy all of my fiby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
Just had an interesting discovery. I have the same QT copied to a G Tech drive, connected via Firewire 800 to my laptop. The QT plays just fine at the trouble spots from the drive as opposed to the QT on the laptop itself... The QT on the laptop must be fragmented at that point or something... Still curious about people's thoughts though...by Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
That's the size of the drive that comes with the MacBook Pro. I'm running the QT file straight off the system hard driveby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
It has 12.5 GB avail, on a 150 GB hard drive. Just ran the graph of the drive with Disk Warrior, and it's directory is only 4% out of order...by Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
Yes, running off a/c, not batteryby Kingg33 - Café LA
Quicktime ProRes HQ Playback Stutter - 14 years ago
Hello, I just output a 56-minute film using Quicktime Movie 'as is' settings, with the Sequence settings at Apple ProRes HQ. Most of the original clips are HDV, with a few DV and ProRes 1920x1080 clips from a telecine of some film shots. I played it last night for an audience straight from my Macbook Pro laptop to a super nice Christie projector via HMDI, where the Quicktime clip was simply onby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Strange 'Close Gap' (Ctrl-G) behavior - 15 years ago
Whoops, sorry to not have run a basic search...but it still doesn't address the problem. This was a project started in FCP7, in Snow Leopard and everything. Very perplexing. I suppose I can switch to the delete key, but it's that dang half of a half of a second in the time it takes to do that that's messing with my 'flow'... Anyway, the guy before has reported it to Apple...I think I wilby Kingg33 - Café LA
Strange 'Close Gap' (Ctrl-G) behavior - 15 years ago
I have a freshly installed FCP7 on a 2.66 mac pro system with Snow Leopard (fully updated), and I've been having a recurring problem. When I place the playhead in a gap I want to close with ctrl-G, it closes a gap earlier in the sequence, not the one chosen. It's both very random, and also consistent. It'll close the same 'wrong' gap each time I try, but why it chooses that particular gap (and noby Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Magic Bullet "Instant HD" filter - opinion? - 15 years ago
Have you guys ever used it with FCP? I downloaded the trial last night, and could NOT get it to work despite following their instructions to the letter. I don't have AE so I'm a bit stuck/perplexed/frustrated.by Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Magic Bullet "Instant HD" filter - opinion? - 15 years ago
Thanks for the info! The footage in my project was shot 30p on a Panasonic DVX100b, so I'm glad to hear I don't have to do that extra step. I don't have AE, so there's that, but what would be the difference doing it in AE over FCP? Just curious...by Kingg33 - Café LA
Re: Strange shimmerings... - 15 years ago
Perhaps there's something happening with the intensity of the whites. Drop in a Color Corrector filter and lower the highlights (or maybe try Broadcast Safe filter), and see if it helps. I've had weird things in highlights before, and I remember this helping. You may also play around with how the stills are saved, in terms of their color space or 'embedded' color profile. Are these PNGs? TIFs? Taby Kingg33 - Café LA
Magic Bullet "Instant HD" filter - opinion? - 15 years ago
Has anyone used this filter to 'up-res' their SD material in a mixed HD/SD project? I had a friend recommend it, as a viable option to the more laborious process of transcoding the SD material I have. Thanks. Gregby Kingg33 - Café LA
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