Beyond it's limitations..

Any clues on this?...
I made a edgy slideshow that had blocks of what I'd call 'flash frames' - that is maybe 4 secs of a different image every frame. And synced to this a 'click' sound to simulate a camera click, starting low and building to a crescendo..
OK...
Many photos were resized in the motion tab.. some showwing at 100% some at say 30% and anywhere in between.
I found it absolutely impossible to maintain the size I had specified when exported..regardless of whether it was a Quicktime reference movie, Self contained QT, or compressed using QT compression, any setting..
Eventually I decide to copy the segment (video only) to a new sequence, lengthen the duration of each to 2 frames, exported it, re-imported it, sped it up 200% and slotted it in place and Viola! success!..
Anyone know why FCE3 couldn't cope?...it's a fastish machine, plenty of RAM. files were on a fast firewire drive..
Clues anyone? ...or have I just tried to push beyond FCE/FCP's limitations?
Pete

Hi Tom,
sorry for the fuzzy explanation...
Using 3.01 and DV Pal...
What I meant by specifying size is that I set the size in the motion tab to the size I wanted - sometimes 100% of the supplied image size, sometimes a smaller or larger percentage... but upon export some individual sizes were being ignored and the photos were showing up far smaller than the originals. I re-imported the QT into FCE and went through frame by frame, and many were only a fraction of the size they should have been, One in particular was set at 100% in the original sequence, but after export was around 1/4 of that size. I tried self-contained QTs and Reference movies, and exporting using quicktime conversion, and also, thinking maybe I was overloading something, I tried exporting just the offending 4 secs, but results were consistently wrong...
being as they were always smaller than they should have been it looks to me like what you'd expect if you had an underpowered machine or little Ram, and were playinmg the sequence in the timeline and FCE wasn't able to get the sizing done in the single frame allowed.
But there's no 'playing' going on...the sequence was fully rendered and was being exported, not played...
But once I did the 'double the duration to 2 frames, export. re-import and double the speed' trick it worked perfectly.
Hmmm...just a thought but could cache size have anything to do with this?
Application 86%
Still cache 32%
...apparently 4% MIA
Thanx for scratching your head over this with me..

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    WMADRC Average Target           : 2648
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