Problem exporting DVCPRO HD sequence

Anyone know what this means or how to fix it? Is my graphics card broke? Called apple and their level 1 tech cannot answer.
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Thanks all
G5 Dual 2.5, 2.5GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL running FCS 2 with latest updates

Sounds like an incompatibility in the codec, notwithstanding acceptance by FCP.
Quick troubleshooting diagnostic: Navigate through some media directories and make sure that COLOR is seeing the things (quicktime movies) that it should be able to, and make a note of what it sees or doesn't recognize when you get to the DVCProHD QT.mov that you are trying to open. My guess is that it won't.
You may have to try to re-export the clip under FCP as a new independent movie. Then re-connect to the new Apple-rendered movie n either your FCP sequence, or the COLOR timeline, so that you don't have to go back and re-razor the whole thing. You did razor the movie in FCP, right?
jPo

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I'm reposting here becase it could be hardware related (the system is new), and because it wasn't answered on the CS5 forum and quickly got buried beneath 100 other threads. There's usually more in-depth support on this forum. Here goes:
I'm running CS5 5.02 on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit with an X58A-UD3R mobo, i7 930, 12 GB RAM, and a GTX 470. The footage is 4:3 NTSC DV, 29.97fps, 720x480. The sequence is DV NTSC Standard 48 kHz. OS on C drive, media and project on E drive, exporting to F drive.
I often put 100 clips or sometimes even 1000 clips on a sequence.
When I go to File-->Export and start exporting video for a small work area (10 seconds or less), it brings up a dialogue box that says "Encoding Sequence 01" and doesn't make any progress for a painfully long time if there are many clips on the sequence. The more clips in the sequence, the longer it waits before exporting. If I isolate the same clip in another empty sequence and try to export the same small work area, it quickly exports the file. As I add and delete clips from a sequence, the problem waxes and wanes. When there's over 200-300 clips, I've never seen it export the video because it just sits there forever "encoding".
I've tried this with several export formats: mpeg2, h264, quicktime, etc., with the same results. Exporting a still JPEG will quickly work on the large sequence, but it is very slow to export video.
It's as if Premiere is trying to encode the entire sequence first even though I've told it to only encode the small work area. It still only exports the small work area I requested, not the entire sequence.
Can someone please try to replicate this a few hundred clips and/or give me advice?

Thanks for your replies, guys.
I'm under deadline but will try running PPBM5 on Tuesday and post back here to see if you have ideas.
There must be something wrong with my setup, because although the project runs smoothly, the exporting lags significantly even with 100 or 200 clips. Surely CS5 should be able to export quickly from sequences as small as that. I had no problem doing this with previous versions of Premiere Pro.
Can anyone try throwing 100-200 clips onto a sequence to see if it causes any lag before exporting a small work area?

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Hello everyone.
I've just finished editing a short film shot with the Panasonic P2, in HD. We cut it using DV resolution, and uprezed it to DVCProHD without (much) problems. We're about to grade it, and have the possibility of doing so on a DaVinci. I tried to give the colorist a QuickTime file, but she can't do anything with it. So she asked us to provide the film using TGA files.
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How do you export DVCPRO HD correctly?

Hey guys, we shot all our footage on HVX with P2 cards at 720p60 @ 23.98fps. I editing everything at that format. Now im done with the edit and the designers want an image sequence. I export out an image sequence and it exports as 960x720 (the codec the camera records at) which makes it look anamorphic. Now i tried to set my sequence to 1280x720 then export, All it does is add black pilar bars to make it 1280x720. What is the correct way to export a DVCPRO HD sequence? Thanks in advance.

Perfect! You don't need to worry about any conversions of your image sequence out of Final Cut then.
I work in After Effects all the time with Varicam and HVX footage in this manner. Export the way you did it (squishy right).
After Effects brings that in natively and you artists will have no problems with it, nor will they have problems doing their work and sending it back out so you can use it in FCP.
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The footage did come from an HDV from Sony.
I use QT Conversion because if I export it as an QT Movie, the video is distorted. However, when exported through Quicktime conversion/quicktime movie/no compression, the movie is exported in the correct dimensions, though the DVD play back issue still persists.
I am running off of iDVD v 5.0.1 and could not find a place where I could choose a 16:9 option, if that is what you meant.
The sequence does include a PSD mask which was imported as a Layered Graphic Sequence. That shouldn't have any impact on the burning issue though.

Video gets SOFT after using export/ media/match sequence settings

Never had this on any other version of PP. PC based 64bit Win 7
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I put them on the TL & want to make 1 long clip out of them.
I export-media-match sequence settings & the video gets 25% softer. Yes my sequence settings are correct.
I have tryed using "max render quality" button but made no difference.
Does cs5 have a problem in this area? The video looks terrible!
Please advise

Just drag your footage to the New Item button and will create a sequence that matches your footage.
There isnt a preset for that size but you can use the Desktop setting and create one that way too.
GLenn

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