| ISSUES WITH GLUE TOOLS [message #876] |
Mon, 09 November 2009 12:21  |
 EBEN 
Messages: 1
Registered: November 2009 |
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I'm working on a new install, purchased last week of Glue Tools and as of yet the only thing that seems to be working is the ability to play back a DPX sequence in FCP and QT. Here are my specs:
INTEL 2 x 2.8 Quad Core
OS 10.5.8
4 Gigs Ram
Quick Time 7.6.4
FCP 6.0.6
AJA KONA 3 - BRAND NEW INSTALLED LAST WEEK
Here are my issues:
1) My DPX files are coming from rendered clips, this is a CGI animation feature so unlike live action we don't have a large master clip to reference to. Meaning we don't work with handles. When I import into FCP the media Start timecode have numbers on them, not sure why, we would expect that each clip would start at 0:00:00:00. This may be an issue with the CGI people but nevertheless when I select Override TC in the import window NOTHING happens. What is this option for, I was guessing that it would reset the start timecode to 0:00:00:00? I also played with the various Header options and Metadata settings and the results appeared to be the same no matter what I selected. For example: one clip's media start timecode is 0:00:10:00 and ends at 0:00:15:00 but again these files didn't come off of a tape so we would like it to read 0:00:00:00 media start and 0:00:05:00 for media end. The reason we need this is that the colorist requires an EDL and if we leave it the way it is the numbers don't relate to anything.
I've attached the EDL so that you can see what I'm talking about. You can open this with Text Edit.
2) To solve issue 1) we decided to load the DPX files into a sequence and then export the sequence as a new DPX Seq. This didn't work as two issue occurred:
a) When exporting a DXP sequence we seemed to get different results one time it didn't seem to export all of the frames. We occasionally got an error in which the export process stopped and the message read that this file was open and being used by this or another program. When we loaded the remaining DPX files back into FCP we could only view the first frame and the remaining were black.
b) We reduced the sequence down to a single clip and this seemed to complete the export process but when we loaded back into FCP or play in QT the movie jumps, whereas the original DPX clip plays fine both in FCP and QT. Here's were it gets weird the original DPX clip in QT show a higher data rate than the exported DPX out of FCP yet the original DPX with higher data rate plays fine the exported lower data rate DPX skips jumps and freezes.
To recap the override TC doesn't seem to do anything. Exporting DPX sequences either creates incomplete clips or clips where only the first frame has an image, rest of frames are black or when sequence is reduced to one clip the resulting DPX skips and jumps.
I've looked at the forum to find a solution and it seems like there are quite a number of issues but none seem to be like what I'm experiencing. I tried reinstalling Glue Tools and even tested this on another workstation with the demo version of GT but with the same results.
Also, never seemed to get the spotlight feature to view Metadata to work. I got Info on several DPX files and I don't see any additional info showing. I looked under Quickview, nothing. I typed the file name into Spotlight to search for it, nothing. Where exactly is the metadata supposed to show up?
I'm not sure where to go from here so any help you can give me with this would be appreciated.
Thanks
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