Final cut 10 not compatible for tv station.

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Final cut 10 not compatible for tv station.

I edit for television with FCPX. I give a master (source-prores 422) to the producer. He encodes it XDCAM HD422 (50mbps) and sends it for encoding subtitles. It is then sent to the station. When it is broadcasted, their are intermittent "pops" in the sound and their are occasional black frames. The sound becomes desynchronized. The TV station says that they always have this problem with pieces edited by FCPX. They say it's because of the way FCPX renders. They said there is a way to render using Compressor. Can anyone tell me how to do that ?

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Apr 19, 2016 12:16 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2016 12:23 PM in response to marcsoucie

'They say it's because of the way FCPX renders'

THey have no idea what they're talking about. If the project is created properly there is zero export prolem to ProRes. The application is delivering broadcast television workdwIde. The subtitle process is the most likely culprit, unless the XDCAM is being made on a PC with Adone Mefdia Encider.

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2016 12:29 PM in response to marcsoucie

IF you have Compressor you can use the Send to Compressor function and create XDCAM files.

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marcsoucie Author

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Apr 19, 2016 12:41 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

XDCAM encoding is done on IMAC (although it might be on Adobe Premier). I have also tried exporting XDCAM directly with FCPX and the same problem arises.

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2016 12:50 PM in response to marcsoucie

TThere must be some other problem. This is not normal. Can you give complete specs of the system, versions, and the project.

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marcsoucie Author

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Apr 19, 2016 1:19 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

could it have something to do with 48 kHz ?

system:

specs: processor 2.5 GHz intel core i5

memory 4G 1333 MHz DDR3

startup dis Macintosh HD

software: OS X 10.9.5

Final Cut Pro X (10.1.1)

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2016 1:23 PM in response to marcsoucie

No. 48k is video standard. Not much RAM. What's the graphics card? That's an old version on an old OS. Isn't there a newer version available for that OS? I assume you're stuck in Mavericks for some reason.

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marcsoucie Author

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Apr 19, 2016 1:35 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Graphic card:

AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 19, 2016 1:41 PM in response to marcsoucie

TThat's minimum spec I think. Are you rendering before you export?

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marcsoucie Author

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Apr 19, 2016 1:53 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I render before export. I make the entire project into one giant compound clip and put the brodcastsafe filter on it. Then I render that compound clip. Then I export it. Come to think of it, I don't necessarily render all the clips inside the compound clip. Just the compound clip. Might that be the problem ?

The company that does our close captions have worked on shows such as Dexter and Breaking Bad and Avatar. I suppose they know what they're doing. Their studio is right next to the community TV I work for.

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