David Scattergood
July 24th, 2009, 07:15 AM
Having almost (!!) completed a project ('documentary' - without narration...budget didn't stretch this far unfortunately) which has been back and forth (rather frustratingly) for some time, we found ourselves near completion.
Essentially we had a main 'feature' and extra bonus material (much shorter piece) which concentrated on a martial arts tournament. The footage was taken from approximately four locked camera's which we then put together to form a relatively coherent viewing experience.
The nature of the footage led the editing to a series of fade ins/outs and slow motions - literally hundreds of fast edits over 15 odd minutes.
Once we were finally happy with the final piece (Draft 40, quite possilby!) we double checked the timeline and sent it out to compress.
On viewing the DVD the evening I was told that there were errors within the timeline (very odd jump cuts and a long portion of black space). Knowing I'd checked this over twice before committing to compress I was bemused at best.
I checked the DVDSP timeline and lo and behold the footage contained those errors. Returning to the FCP timeline however showed the timeline to be absolutely fine.
Something happened on export from FCP - I've recreated this a couple of times; sent it compressor then as a quicktime and the errors are clearly evident.
The first error has the clip jump back and forth and include parts which were taken out of the timeline. The four second black gap is merely a slow motion section lost in export.
I'm struggling to fathom out where this is going wrong. My only guess is that due to the nature of the timeline (those many, many fast edits with fades and slow motion) is somehow overworking my machine (iMac 2.66Ghz, 2GB ram) although the rest of the timeline is not affected.
Any ideas anyone!!???
Many thanks.
Essentially we had a main 'feature' and extra bonus material (much shorter piece) which concentrated on a martial arts tournament. The footage was taken from approximately four locked camera's which we then put together to form a relatively coherent viewing experience.
The nature of the footage led the editing to a series of fade ins/outs and slow motions - literally hundreds of fast edits over 15 odd minutes.
Once we were finally happy with the final piece (Draft 40, quite possilby!) we double checked the timeline and sent it out to compress.
On viewing the DVD the evening I was told that there were errors within the timeline (very odd jump cuts and a long portion of black space). Knowing I'd checked this over twice before committing to compress I was bemused at best.
I checked the DVDSP timeline and lo and behold the footage contained those errors. Returning to the FCP timeline however showed the timeline to be absolutely fine.
Something happened on export from FCP - I've recreated this a couple of times; sent it compressor then as a quicktime and the errors are clearly evident.
The first error has the clip jump back and forth and include parts which were taken out of the timeline. The four second black gap is merely a slow motion section lost in export.
I'm struggling to fathom out where this is going wrong. My only guess is that due to the nature of the timeline (those many, many fast edits with fades and slow motion) is somehow overworking my machine (iMac 2.66Ghz, 2GB ram) although the rest of the timeline is not affected.
Any ideas anyone!!???
Many thanks.