Time FX Clips Disappearing
by Robert Stone
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Aug 11, 2009 at 8:11:44 am
Media 100 Suite - Many Time FX clips are appearing BLACK after rendering. Cannot export for DVD mastering as many Time FX clips, although not turning black, end up freezing weird, etc.
Re: Time FX Clips Disappearing by Robert Stone on Aug 11, 2009 at 9:02:16 pm
Aloha Matthew - Thanks.
I went to a different (shorter) project, tried rendering in A and B (gave me the wrong footage rendered)
moved to V1 and rendered properly. Moving the rendered clip back to the A/B timeline did not work.
This is in Version 13.0.2 now. There seems to be fewer rendering problems, but we need to find a workable solution. I am working on a 4.5 HOUR documentary with obviously thousands of clips with
several hundreds being off-speed. My partner is ready to shoot me!!! (I'm the techie!!)
Blessings,
Bob
Robert Stone
http://www.TaylorCampFilm.com
http://www.youtube.com/MauiFilms
Re: Time FX Clips Disappearing by Eric Pelletier on Aug 29, 2009 at 5:17:26 pm
I've been experiencing similar issues with Time/Motion Fx since installing v12.x. This was my first step in upgrading from 8.2.
From day one, Time Fx have been a pain: most of the times,when rendering, picture is wrong, like rendering from different TC. Worse, sometimes, rendering these FX diplays still for the first few frames and then starts, etc.
Of course there's a bunch of work arounds for these problems and one of those is to NOT render these time fx, if you can Use Preview Online, and try, if needed, to export using Other - QuickTime Movie and choose Option - your Preferred Codec (I usually go for Media 100 NTSC/PAL 720, like a Self Contained Movie) and then go to Compressor or Bit Vice to Encode for DVD. Also very usefull to output unrendered FX for client approval through QuickTime downoads.
But, of course we need to find our way out of these situations that slow down our Workflow.
Re: Time FX Clips Disappearing by Eric Pelletier on Aug 31, 2009 at 5:20:43 pm
Thanks for responding.
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Media 100 app runs off the internal startup disk where I have M100 progs and bins located in the Document Folder. Media files are acquired and transitions rendered on 2 internals Western Digital striped as an array volume.
The real big deals for me, as stated before, are, when both Render All or manually rendered clips, result in playing the first frame of Clip as "still/freeze" (CTI moving) for half a second, let's say, and then showing the actual fast/slow motion. The Still frames are actually part of the Purple Clip which is a non sense. The other problem I have is when doing the same task, creating a fsst/slow FX on a clip, the rendered Clip shows a totally different TC (different content) of the same Source clip. There is no workarounds for the later, except going back to the source clip in the bin (sometimes re-import from the drives even) redo the FX then from the bin 4,5 even6 times before it works to finally replace the Purple Clip in the Program.
I thought at first I was affected by corruption of some kind, but after a clean reinstall of system and Apps I can't figure out. Are all users experiencing these problems? Have you been able to replicate these issues at Media 100?
Curiously, exporting a program SELF CONTAINED with FX Preview Online gives same problems in the resulting quickTime file. BUT, as mentionned before, exporting a program from Export-Other-QuickTime Command in a M100 Codec, Animation or H.264 works fine for me.
Re: Time FX Clips Disappearing by Robert Stone on Aug 31, 2009 at 7:51:53 pm
Aloha Matthew,
Thanks as always. Media 100 Suite 1.01 now - just recaptured media high res and the one clip in V1 that was off speed recaptured with the wrong video info. FYI.
Thanks and Blessings,
Bob
Robert Stone
http://www.TaylorCampFilm.com
http://www.youtube.com/MauiFilms
