Drop Zone / Final Cut Placeholder

Is there a posibility to change (convert) a Drop Zone into FC Placeholder? I made some projects in Motion and I wan to use them as FCPX Titles with placeholder instead of Drop Zone.

Read this thread all the way to the end:
Is there any way to convert Dropzone to Final Cut Placeholder?
That was for an Effect. For a Title, rename the project .moti (hopefully the same trick will work.)

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Drops and final cut

Good evening
I´m working on a hdv 1080 50 i footage on final cut studio 2 and I have the last trouble. I use magic bullet looks filters on a clip and when I do an quicktime movie export I find some drops at master. It´s some strange because the original capture doesn´t have any drop and also when I export the fragment alone I don´t have any drop but when I do the export as a part of the master I see the drops...
Anyone can help me?
Thanks in advance

Plenty of space on your media drives isn't relevant to how fast they are.
And you need very, very fast drives to push 10-bit uncompressed footage.
A single SATA drive, regardless of how much space on it, isn't fast enough for 10-bit high definition uncompressed footage. Uncompressed 10-bit high definition footage requires a drive or drives that push about 170 megabytes per second. Your drives don't even approach 100 megabytes with data on them. Hence the dropped frames.
Converting the AVI files to Pro Res 422 or even Pro Res LT will work.
It might be prudent to google RAID 0 and learn how it works.

Clips randomly won't drop into Final Cut from FCS...

Hello!
Just curious if anyone else has seen this issue...
1. The correct media drives ARE mounted on the system
2. You search for the clips you need
3. You drag the clip into either the "bin" or "preview" window in Final Cut Pro and it appears to bounce right back into Final Cut Server
We have noticed that if we right click over the clip and "View Original Media", close quicktime after it opens, then drag into Final Cut Pro, it works!
Any ideas?
Ryan

nevermind - The user restarted the computer and the issue went away.

I don't understand how the drop zone works in Title effects.

I am having trouble understanding how the drop zone in the "Keynote" title effect works. I added the title effect to my storyline. In the inspector, Title tab, I selected the clip in the Event library, in this case a tiff photo. The thumbnail and clip title display in the inspector, but the clip does not display in the Viewer when I play the storyline even after FCPX has rendered.
Am I missing something in my understanding of this title effect or is there a problem in FCPX (10.0.6)? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
iMac, 3.4GHz Core i7, 16GB ram, OSX 10.8.2,

There are two ways in which drop zones are available in the Keynote title template. What Luis has shown you is the normal way in which a title placed over a clip shows you the original clip with the title text. That is called a Final Cut placeholder type of drop zone. Keynote also offers a drop zone to be used as a background choice instead of a gradient or solid as you see in Luis's post. This makes a very nice title effect as you can use any clip for that background. That is what I thought you were refering to when you you said drop zone. Keynote is one of the nicer titles we have available in FCP because of this feature. Glad you got it sorted out.

Upgrade to Final Cut 10.0.7 destroyed my generators created in Motion that include drop zones. Anyone experienced the same problem ?

In Motion 5 I created generators that included a drop zone. The objective it to bring them into Final Cut and insert into the drop zone a clip of the same duration.
In FCX 10.0.6 I used to bring a clip to the time line and re size it to the exact duration of my generator. Then I bring the generator to the time line and selected the generator, click in the drop zone of the published parameters menu and select this clip I wanted to insert. The result was the generator using my clip and the clip playing during all the duration of the generator with the generator effect.
Now, with 10.0.7 I can’t make that work. When I click in the clip I would like to import into the drop zone, the result is that there’s just a frozen image of the clip (in the same place I clicked with the mouse)
Is this a known problem of 10.0.7. It used to work well in 10.0.6
Thanks for your help !

I can't see that the update would have any effect on custom generators as they are housed separately from FCP X.
Many weird things happen as a result of corrupt preferences which can create a vast range of different symptoms, so whenever FCP X stops working properly in any way, trashing the preferences should be the first thing you do using this free app.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Shut down FCP X, open PreferenceManager and in the window that appears:-
1. Ensure that only FCP X is selected.
2. Click Trash
The job is done instantly and you can re-open FCP X.
There is absolutely no danger in trashing preferences and you can do it as often as you like.
The preferences are kept separately from FCP X and if there aren't any when FCP X opens it automatically creates new ones . . . instantly.

Drop Zones and Final Cut Placeholders

Hi,
I'm trying to create a generator in Motion 5 that I can use in FCPX. It's fairly simply - a bunch of drop zones for video or photo content and a camera that travels through them in 3D. All fine - looks great in Motion, but when I open the generator in FCPX and try to drag content (either video or photos) into the drop zones, the content just becomes a new background rather than filling the drop zones. I guess I'm probably doing something wrong in Motion rather than FCPX. If I take any of the pre-defined titles (rather than generators) in FCPX that allow one to add a video clip and drag video content onto those titles, it all works as I would expect - the video sits below the title in the timeline and when I play it back, the video is in the right place. Why doesn't that work with my drop zones?
(Apologies if this is just a really stupid question and I've misunderstood generators - I can see that if I try to create a title or a transition, then instead of a standard drop zone, I get final cut placeholders to use, and I think those will do what I expect - trouble is I can only have one of them, and I want several.)
LM

LM
I thnk that Adrie is correct. Place the Generator in the timeline
Then click on it once
In the inspector window, Top Right of the screen you will see the Drop Zone(s)
Click on the Drop Zone Icon in the inpector (see picture) and a message will appear
Locate the clip you want to load into Drop Zone and and click Apply Clip
That should place it correctly
If you want a photo in a Drop Zone, then drag it from the file browser directly to the Drop Zone in the inspector
Hope that helps
G

Drop Zone video is cut off

I started using DVD Studio today with a template that has a drop Zone it appears to be cut off on the bottom third now. When I reposition the drop zone size I notice the cut off area changes in size. After two years of using this program... this is a first.

I HAVE THE ANSWER !!!!!!! Now I'm feeling much better, but $299 lighter and 4 days that I will never get back.....
It turns out that everyone with Final Cut Studio Pro 6 that allowed the latest update of Snow Leopard 10.6.5 to install (just a few weeks ago on Nov 10th) got their program corrupted. People with Final Cut Pro 7 already installed were safe.
Here's the fix ....
1. Make sure you turn off "auto updates". Reinstall Snow Leopard, you don't have to erase just use your disk.
2. Then update manually to 10.6.4 by following these steps and downloading the update here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1048?viewlocale=en_US
3. Now Reinstall Final Cut pro
BUT Here's the rub ....
Do not update the OS X beyond 10.6.4 until you first buy the upgrade to FCP 7
(((big nasty grin)))
Problem solved.
Just remember I went to battle for you.

Warning: Sometimes Final Cut exports a non-drop sequence as drop-frame

Just a heads up. This has been maddening for me. On occasion I will export my program for compressor and it will be drop frame when it should be non-drop.
These are sequences which have exported fine before. There is no rhyme or reason to it. Tonight I've lost about 2 hours because of this. At least I knew to check it before compressing the file and sending it out to our contractor because it has happened in the past.
By the way shutting down FCP and opening it up again seems to cure the problem.

System req's for fcp 5
General System Requirements
Macintosh computer with 867MHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo processor, or Intel Xeon processor
HD features require 1GHz or faster single or dual processors (authoring HD DVDs requires a PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo processor, or Intel Xeon processor)
512MB of RAM; 1GB of RAM for HD features (2GB recommended)
Display with 1024-by-768 (or higher) resolution
AGP Quartz Extreme or PCI Express graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not supported on systems using the Intel Extreme Graphics 950 GMA)
Motion requires the standard graphics card found in any Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac Intel Core Duo, Power Mac G5, iMac G5, a 1.25 GHz or faster PowerBook G4, or a 1.25 GHz or faster flat-panel iMac.
Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
QuickTime 7.0.4 or later
4GB of disk space to install all applications
Additional 42GB to install all optional templates, loops, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate discs)
It would seem that you've been reasonably lucky thus far running 10.3.9

Final Cut Pro 7 export drops frames

I exported a video from Final Cut Pro 7 to a Quicktime .mov file. The file plays fine on a mac, but when I try to play it on a pc it drops frames throughout the video. I have other .mov files on this pc also exported from fcp7 that play just fine. Please advise. Thanks.

If you are talking about the Canvas and Viewer windows... make sure that their size is set at FIT TO WINDOW Top left button in the viewer and canvas window.
If you are talking about something else, please give us some more details.
rh

Newbie : Final Cut Pro Loads then drops.

Hi,
Whenever I load FCP, it goes through the basic screens but then just drops to the desktop without loading the normal FCP screens.
I have searched and I found the post saying 'remove library / fcp and folder' which works for the next time you load. Once you set your prefs again, the next time you try and reload, it crashes as the first time.
This is a brand new mac and the only external software loaded is the Final Cut Studio box set.
Any tips please! All patches up to date 5.03 FCP etc.

Thanks, missed the heading, that will teach me to look first hehe!

30p with a Canon XA10 - need help with Final Cut 7 "FIELD DOMINANCE" setting and an explanation of "drop frames". Thank you!!

I shot footage using a Canon XA10 and there are issues with the HD quality not looking as crisp as it should. I am trying to make sure the settings in Final Cut are right. Need help confirming what should be in "Field Dominance" --- have seen discussions about making sure it's set to "none" but I'm confused as to what to do.
Also someone suggested I use "drop frames" to change from 30p to 24p within Final Cut. He couldn't explain how to do it so any input appreciated as well as any thoughts on whether this is a good option to try.

If you're shooting 30p, field dominance should be set to none. Since you need to use log and transfer to bring this material in to fcp, I would assume it would be set correctly automatically. Are you sure you've set the camera properly?
Drop frames will not change 30 p to 24p. Dropframe timecode simply refers to the number assigned to each frame which drops an occasional number (not any frames) so the timecode duration is the actual duration, since 30p videoi is actually 29.97 frames per second which each frame assigned a timecode number.
This is very basic video stuff and requires some basic knowledge of video. Wikipedia is a pretty good resource for much of this stuff plus there are lots of great resources on the web. Look up interlaced and progressive video, 24p and 30p.
And as far as judging quality, you can only get an accurate view of the quality in fcp when you have a video card attached to a video monitor. The viewer and canvas are only an approximation of what the quality is. Minimally, set the canvas or viewer to 100% to get a better approximation of the quality.

Final Cut Pro dropped frame rate issue

Hi there, i currently shot a short film on the canon 5d mark II 30fps and i am trying to edit it in final cut studio 2. I have recently bought the new macbook pro 15inch 2gb module.
Now the canon footage is h.264 but when importing the clips into final cut pro 6 there is a lot of dropped frame rate issues but I thought this machine could handle HD footage?
Can someone more advanced than myself recommend what i am doing wrong or a work flow that i can work with to stop dropped frame rates and render times.
Last piece of information, the project will be entered in film festivals in the spring its only a 3 minute short and i have 5 folders of footage under 4gb each which was taken from the camera
Thanks for your help.
Michael

You are missing a huge conceptual point. If the file can not spool off of the hard drive fast enough, you get dropped frames. It isn't a processor or ram issue right now, it is a hard drive speed issue. Your system drive is overtaxed trying to run OSX, applications AND spool video. It just can't keep up. Changing the graphic card isn't going to help (and how do you change the card in a laptop?)
Get an external esata drive - with the new MacBookPro you'll need an esata Expresscard34 adapter for the computer to connect the drive. Firewire is not an option with that machine and USB2 will not cut it with high data rate formats like ProRes.
When you drop in the ProRes clip to the timeline and it tells you there is a mismatch, this means your preset for the timeline is something other than your clip. You WANT ProRes and you need the sequence to match your clip - tell the program to CHANGE the sequence to match the clip.
Video is not easy and it isn't inexpensive. Time to open up those manuals and your wallet!
Good luck,
x

How to change Final Cut Server's time zone?

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So, for example, as my time zone is GMT less 3 hours, my FCSvr is always stamping the time as 3 hours in advance. Sometimes, this is really annoying.
My best regards,
JP.

I tried resetting Mac OS X's time zone directly in the terminal. Didn't work. After trying several times to set up another time zone, FCSvr suddenly was able to work with the PST time zone.
I was able to have a workaround by setting GMT (or PST) as my time zone, turning off the automatic date&time setting and manually setting the time, all at the date&time System Preferences.
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Any insights on this will be highly appreciated.
JP.

Final Cut Pro 4.5 & Dropped Frames..Please Help

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FCP 4.5 and Mac OS 10.4.9 are incompatible...known issue.
#45 - FCP 4.5 and Mac OS 10.4.9 - how to get it working again
Shane's Stock Answer #45 - How to get FCP 4.5 working again under Mac OS 10.4.9
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OlSchoolCutter tried with SUCCESS (see post in that thread).
Then follow these stepe and try (it's free!):
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Dropped frames on Brand New Macbook and Final Cut Express!

I have recently bought a New Macbook, and installed Final Cut Express HD 3.5 on it. I have Quicktime Player 7.3. My Macbook is a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor. Memory is 1GB 667 Mhz. I have already used up a lot of Hard Drive on my Laptop with other applications, and in my capture window it says that I have 24.5GB space (109 minutes). Could this be the problem - not enough space?
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Also I have been reading the manuals, and wonder if the frame rate or time code settings could be affecting the dropped frames? Does anyone know where I can check this?
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You are quite frankly, a genius. I have just managed to capture my footage after a gruelling few days of trying just about anything. Your recommendations regarding settings and also the external hard drive have fixed my problem.
I'm going to have a large glass of wine now to celebrate my victory - and then I'm going to try and figure out how you actually use FCE after that.... er hem... now where did I put that manual..?
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