Prores 4444 being shifty!!

Make some white text with a drop shadow on black in Motion and render out as Prores 4444 with Alpha. 1920x1080

Drop onto a seq on trk 2 in a timeline thats codec is ProresSQ or HQ (1920x1080) . All good.

Force render

Everything is exactly the same apart from the text which is now illegal looking at external scopes!

Seriously does anyone test this stuff !!!

FCP7 FreezeFrame Bug

Spent quite a few hours hunting this little one down.

Never have a freeze frame in TRK one at the beginning of the seq. Unless its your final master.

To replicate..

Make a new seq. Add a clip at say 3 seconds in. Open the clip thats in the timeline in the viewer. Goto IN.

Create a FreezeFrame, drop in at the start of the seq before the clip you added.

Duplicate the Seq.

The sequence will do something funky.. either both seq will now be named -Copy
Or the Copy will be converted to a MasterClip
Open the copy and all media vid/audio will be named the name of the seq.. not the clip name.



Also.. Undo Undo back to FF>Clip orig edit.

add another clip to TRK2 above the FreezeFrame starting at frame1.

Now select the clip in trk2 and the freeze frame at same time and nudge up a trk so they are now in trk 2 and 3

Notice this wonderful feature in action as it renames the Seq in the bin to something else thats in there like traffic.aiff. If you don't spot this and you have a lot of edits gets very confusing!