GmElliott
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May 2, 2008, 9:27 AM
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Nothing but problems from FCP in the last 2 days
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I've been having problems with FCP, renders, and Magic Bullet for the last 2 days. I'm finished a wedding and am simply trying to get the DVD done which I thought I could finish in a day. I'm on my second day and not a whole lot closer to finishing.
1) I had a credits montage completed on my timeline complete with Magic Bullet Effects, all pre-rendered. I went to Export> Quicktime Movie (non-self-contained).
Even though it was pre-rendered it took an eon to render out! I came back and it was frozen on 37%. I went to check the process under the force quit menu to see if, indeed, it's not responding and I can't even access that menu- I don't have a cursor. Just the spinning beach ball of death.
I eventually give up and hold the power button in to power down. After I power back up I load up FCP again and try the render again- this time it goes through without issue. WTF?!
2) I have a rehearsal dinner multicam edit I completed. The only filter I added was a "gamma adjustment" filter to the footage which I already pre-rendered.
When I render out a non-self-contained MOV file any of the footage that had the gamma adjustment, or any footage that required pre-rendering for that matter, looks all pixelated.
....I tried another time with the same timeilne, same issue. (another hour gone)
....So then I decided to render a small section out to test it. Came out fine. Tried rendering again- SAME issue. (yet another hour gone)
....I powered the machine down, turned it back on, copied the edit on to a fresh timeline and tried the render one last time. SAME THING, all the footage that was pre-rendered is pixelated in the MOV file! GRRRRR 
I'm now about 4 hours in the hole trying to figure this out. I'm giving up on doing a MOV file prior to Compressor, and have stripped the filters and sending the timeline directly to compressor from the timeline. If this doesn't work I'm going to scream.
I was done this wedding a few days ago- I figured I could have the MPGs done and the menus laid out in one day, and the disc art and burns done the next. In the two days I've been working on this all I haven't even accomplished getting all the files ready for DVDSP. I swear it feels like 30% of my time in post for this project is spent trying to get it output correctly. I must have spent a total of 10 hours (total) trying to get this to work.
PS This is my first HDV wedding. Maybe it's something to do with the fact I'm editing/encoding straight HDV.
The Mac definitely isn't without quirks. It seems like I'm being bombarded with them lately.
Glen Elliott
http://www.GmElliottVideo.com
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