ProRes footage is white in monitor
We have used compressor to transcode footage shot on a 5D MII to ProRes. We are working in a sequence that is ProRes (HQ) because most of the footage was shot on a BlackMagic Camera. This all worked fine until we moved the project to another computer. Now all the 5D footage shows up as White in the source monitor. You can't scrub through it either. Only when you hit play can we see the footage.
Is there any way to fix this?
Also, a general question. We are seeing more quirks in FCP 7 all the time. Is this likely to worsen over time as the software is no longer being upgraded? If so, is it time to move on to another edit platform, or can we expect a reasonable amount of stability out of FCP so long as we don't upgrade the OS, etc.?
Thanks,
Loch
To answer your first question:
Shane's Stock Answer #15: White or Black Canvas or Viewer
Make sure the canvas or viewer are selected then go to VIEW>CHANNELS and set it to RGB. It might be set to ALPHA.
OR...
Click on the drop down menu above the Viewer or Canvas and make sure that you are on IMAGE or IMAGE + WIREFRAME.
As for your "also," what "quirks?" If stuff starts not acting like it should, it's always wise to trash preferences, as they can get corrupt. PREFERENCE MANAGER does this with one button click, and can even back up good preferences so you can keep your keyboard settings, window layouts, and project settings. It's free...digitialrebellion.com
Things should be stable if you don't upgrade the OS.
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I am having trouble viewing my NTSC screen for recording a project to a BETA. I have gone into EasySetup and selected both Blackmagic DeckLink NTSC 8 and 10 bit. Went into View, Vew Playback and tried selecting Blackmagic NTSC 8 and 10 bit and still cannot get the file on my NTSC monitor. My mouse will split off my screen over to it, but cannot get mov to show up over there to record into the BETA. I get sound, but no video in the recording, just a blue screen. Any thoughts
I'm working on a Mac OS X Version 10.4.10 Dual 2.5 GHz Power PC G5 with Fincal Cut Sudio Pro. A co-worker downloaded updates for our BlackMagic DeckLink. Last Friday everything was working fine. Today, it's not. I called him and he's the one who told me to go into EasySetup and select the BlackMagic DeckLink NTSC 8 or 10 Bit and everything should be back to Normal. Well, it's not, he's out of State, and I can't reach him now on his Cell. I'm not sure of the Brand of Decklink, I only now what it's called in FCP. I'm just the back up guy on this and now we have to overnight tv spots, if I can get them on a BETA.
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Viewing footage on desktop and external monitor at same time
Maybe i'm missing something, but is there any way to view footage simultaneously on your desktop monitor and your external broadcast monitor (via blackmagic output)?
Right now when I enable mercury transmit, the viewer within speedgrade goes to grey and I can only see the footage on the external monitor. This makes it impossible to draw custom shapes around objects (rather than just use the stock circle masks) which I use quite a bit...I would like to have the view on both monitors like I have in resolve.
If this isn't possible, is there a quick shortcut to toggle mercury transmit on and off without having to go into the settings menu?
Any help would be appreciated...I am enjoying a lot of the controls that are in speedgrade but there are some workflow hurdles that I need to get over in order to be able to use effectively in client sessions from time to time.
Thanks!I waited expectantly and patiently for Adobe to enable Mercury Transmit in SG and to be able to make use of my BM card and external monitor.
O.K we got it in CC2014.1...but it is either Mercury Transmit or Dual Display!
I think this half-arsed solution is an absolute fail that we cant use desktop and an external monitor simultaneously.
Has anyone on the SG team actually been in a real world CC and Grade Suite?
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How to send ProRes FCP footage to iDVD and get a quality result
Hello,
I am editing on FCP5, for which I used a USB to transfer my ProRes footage. I want to use one of the themes in iDVD as a menu page for my final project, and understand that to do this I will have to export my FCP footage via QuickTime. I am worried about compromising the quality of my footage by doing this. My question is how can I then burn my final product, including the DVD menu, to disk and get the best quality result from my footage.
Thank you!Have a feeling it's MPEG2. I've already spent time this week rendering another part of the movie using my old editing package (Pinnacle) and saving it as a .mov file to USB and it works on FCP without a hitch- Thankfully! I'm just gutted because I know MPEG is nowhere near as good quality as ProRes but I really don't know what else to do- This is literally my first week working on a Mac, let alone FCP!
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So I installed the CC updates last week, and have a major problem with Premiere now. All footage of any kind I import shows up white. The thumbnails look fine in preview, but as soon as a clip is clicked on, opened, or hover scrubbed over, the footage turns white. Sometimes when I first start up Premiere it's a mess of giant code until I start moving the playhead around. I've attached screenshots of each instance, and notice that this in't even of actualy media, it's of the "media offline" placeholder. Literally every type of footage I import whatsoever does this. Meanwhile in CS6, everything works fine.
I'm trying a full uninstall of all my CS6 apps now to see if it fixes it, and reinstalling Premiere CC. In the meantime though, wondering if anyone else has encountered this and has a fix? Thanks.This could be a classic problem with your video driver.
What OS are you running on?
What video card do you have?
What is the currently installed video driver?
Is that the latest one available? If not, go to the nVidia, or AMD/ATI Web site, download and install the latest - test.
Good luck, and if that does not fix things, you will have probably ruled out the video driver, as being the cause.
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Blocky footage from ProRes 4444 file when imported in After Effects CC on Windows 7
I'm running the latest version of After Effects CC before the 2014 update. When I bring in a ProRes File I noticed the footage had turned Blocky and Alias'd. Extremely noticeable on black round edges, making the high quality footage look awful.
HAs anyone experienced this, or seen this before... I almost didn't notice it.Noticed a few things.
Still don't know if there have been any changes to the footage in the comp because none of the properties of the footage layer are revealed. Try selecting the footage layer and press the U key twice to reveal any changes made to the footage.
Not understanding the composition size at all. Why is it non standard? 1920 X 817 will NOT work for any kind of standard delivery method AND, if the footage is standard size, 1920 X 1080, the footage will be imported with a default position of 960 X 408.5 causing every pixel in the footage to be re-interpreted and cause a loss of clarity.
The properties of the original footage are not shown or known. We don't know if the footage is interlaced or what size it is or what the frame rate is.
You have not given us any information on how you are bringing ProRez footage into a Windows machine. Did you download some 3rd party software to import the footage? If so, what has been installed?
Most likely, the problem is the placement of the footage so that the footage is not precisely lined up on the pixel grid (see item 2). Anything from Compression to 3rd party software could also be causing interpretation problems. -
Why does Prores need to render when sequence settings match footage?
I have imported some Prores footage that plays fine in the viewer window. When I drop it in a new sequence and let it match the settings it still shows up as needing to be rendered. Any thoughts?
If you're going out to tape, yes, if you're going to a file, well, not really. You can just render a file directly out of FCP to disk without rendering the timeline. Kinda dangerous if you can't see what you're outputting. Or you can output a reference file in a couple of minutes out of FCP and put it into Compressor and do the real rendering there with a lot more control. A reference file is a quicktime, using current settings, which is NOT a self-contained movie. I have a directory of these reference files that I can use on the machine for different renders and at the same time feel free to delete. They're very quick to create. Are you running FCS3? if so Share is yet another process for exporting.
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FCP through to External monitor....Sound fine but video is still frames
Hi everybody
In January of this year this problem was posted by Andy D.....
+No matter what combination of settings I choose I cannot get video to play on my HD monitor only a still of the last frame shows up. When I hit play the audio is loud and clear and then when I hit stop the final frame appears on the screen.+
I have this problem but only when the material in my FCP viewer, canvas or sequence is ProRes422 (I'd converted H264s to this before importing into project)! If the project is DV or H264 material that has been rendered by FCP, it plays on the external monitor fine but it seems if we start looking at the high end stuff like ProRes, back to sound but still picture.
I might add here that the path to my external Full HD monitor is through firewire to an ADVC100 converter and then composite cables to the input of the monitor. By the way the same thing happens with an SD monitor.
I haven't tried using my video camera as the link through to the monitor instead of the ADVC100. Would this make a difference? I'd be pretty happy if someone had a solution for this.
Thanks in anticipation.
Peter LUnless the camera is a DVCPRO HD camera...like the HPX-170...this won't work. Not via HDV or AVCHD. Playout isn't as simple as it was with DV. There are far cheaper capture cards...Decklink Intensity Pro, Matrox MXO2 mini...but you need a MacPro for those (or with the MXO2 MIni, a laptop with an Express34 slot). An iMac is severely limited in what it can do.
Sorry.
#25 HDV external Monitor Viewing
Shane's Stock Answer #25 - HDV external Monitor Viewing
To view HDV on an external monitor in high definition you are going to need to purchase a capture card, like the ones Decklink (www.decklink.com) or AJA (www.aja.com) offer. They will both play out HDV in real time. The catch is that you cannot view this on a regular TV or NTSC monitor. Since this is HD, an HD monitor will be needed. HOWEVER, both cards are capable of down converting the signal so that it can be displayed on an SD monitor. This won't be color accurate
The real reason why you can't monitor HDV through a Firewire camera is because Firewire HDV cameras don't decode incoming HDV streams and route them to their outputs like DV cameras do.
Good options for you are the Matrox MXO2 mini...$450...coupled with an HDTV. Or a Matrox MXO (DVI connection) coupled with an Apple 23" display gets you good quality.
And there are the Decklink Intensity and Intensity PRO cards as well, and the AJA I/O Express...
You can, however, view HDV out via firewire as DV...lowering the resolution to that of DV, but still viewable. This is not full quality nor should it be used to judge the quality of your footage or used to color correct to. This is just a way to view the footage on a large monitor.
Here are some examples of some of the possibilities:
- DV or HDV sequence output to an SDI signal on a third-party interface
- An uncompressed NTSC or PAL sequence output to a DV FireWire output
- An HDV sequence output to a DV FireWire output
Sequence and output formats must have compatible frame rates. For example,
sequences with a frame rate of 60, 30, or 24 fps can be output to a 30 fps device,
but not to a 25 or 50 fps device.
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Preview monitor not displaying properly
i just did a clean install of leopard, then did a clean install of FCS2, and then ran all the updates. a couple days later i try to run color (which worked on this machine when i had tiger)and the preview window is very funky and not usable. i have attached a screenshot. i tried restarting, tried other clips, tried other formats- but nothing seems to get the preview to actually display the video properly.
color did work on this exact setup before i upgraded the OS. I bought anew harddrive and installed everything from scratch. i have the ati x1900 as the main card with pcie lane width set to 16 as well as an ati hd 2600xt with the lane width set to 1x. i have a mac pro with 8 gigs of ram, 8 core x 3.0ghz.
working with prorez footage. no special hardware add ons at all. sent to color command in fcp kept causing a crash as soon as i tried to playback in color (and preview monitor still didn't work).
here is a link to a screeshot of what the monitor previews.
http://smcouples.com/Samples/color.jpg
please help- i can't use color anymore.
P.
Message was edited by: Patrick MoreauColormunki is a known no-no with Color. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8640308�
Searching the forum can reveal your answers, if you use the search function.
However, a color profiler does nothing to help you with regard to consistent color when working with video. Again, you need to use a video input/output device (I sound like a blasted broken record with this) with a video display device capable of a daily setup, like a projector or a video crt or flat panel. Using computer monitors with Color is worthless.
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