Bugs of the Week - 5-4-13

Another installment of our weekly list of serious, useful and unusual bugs in your NLE.

Premiere

Audio dropouts can occur if caches are not stored on the system drive

Text cannot be dynamically linked to After Effects

Avid

Workarounds for sending audio from Media Composer to Adobe Audition

You cannot use the arrow keys to audition fonts in Marquee on the Mac

FCPX

Lots of people getting the "share operation Master File has failed" error

Posted by Jon Chappell on Friday May 3 2013 10:54 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 4-26-13

Here's another installment of our weekly list of critical, useful and bizarre bugs in your editing system.

Avid

Some of the test patterns with ship with Media Composer are wrong

The "ignoreqtrate" command is broken in 6.5.2 but fixed in 6.5.2.1

Workspaces may not save on dual-monitor systems

Some users may be having problems downloading from the My Products page

Premiere

CUDA operates in linear color space so you can get gamma shifts with media imported from After Effects and other applications

Switching third-party plugins to CPU rendering can in some cases boost rendering performance

Resetting a custom keyboard layout can sometimes fix the "LinkContainer" error

FCPX

Lots of reports of export failures in 10.0.8

Posted by Jon Chappell on Friday April 26 2013 7:15 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 4-19-13

After a long NAB-related hiatus, Bugs of the Week is back with a listing of serious, useful or bizarre bugs you should know about.

Premiere

Explanation / workaround for "TickTime" error

Text rendering differences in software / hardware modes

How to batch export to Adobe Media Encoder

Avid

Workspaces not saving

FCP 7

Ghost exports

OS X

OS X 10.8.3 breaks CUDA and OpenCL

Posted by Jon Chappell on Friday April 19 2013 9:12 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 3-2-13

Here's another rundown of critical, strange and useful bugs in your NLE.

Premiere

Blu-ray presets incompatible with Scenarist

Workspace completely disappeared

Workarounds for seeing live scopes during playback

Premiere cannot accept broadcast waves larger than 4 GB

Premiere does not currently support the XAVC codec

Gain adjustments are not included in OMFs

Avid

The latest Mac Minis are now qualified for 6.5.2

Workflow for dealing with Davinci Resolve's new clip naming system in version 9

More tips on dealing with clip names in Resolve 9

Changing sequence timecode start modifies the timecode of imported clips

Button configuration can reset after relaunching the app

Trimming in audio mode can switch you back to edit mode

Changing dissolve duration causes dissolve to occur past the edit point

Certain flavors of H.264 can produce green frames when brought in via AMA

FCPX

Only the first channel of a multichannel audio interface is recorded

FCP 7

Audio issues after Flip4Mac upgrade

Posted by Jon Chappell on Saturday March 2 2013 1:23 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 2-15-13

Here's another installment of our weekly selection of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE.

Avid

Playback issues with non-standard variable GOP AVCHD media

How to temporarily disable your Blackmagic card

How to prevent adjacent clips from being merged in EDL Manager

Premiere

Audio corruption with Denoiser filter
(I too have experienced issues with this filter and have stopped using it)

Cannot export a frame from the program monitor if an audio-only sequence is open on another monitor

Hold shift to snap to an edit point when dragging the playhead

FCPX

Performance comparison between different apps playing an H.264 file
(the strange part is that QuickTime Player and FCPX both use AV Foundation)

OS X

You cannot hold down Option at startup to boot from a recovery partition on a Fusion drive

Posted by Jon Chappell on Friday February 15 2013 1:12 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 2-10-13

We're back with more serious and unusual bugs in your NLE.

Avid

Workaround for Avid bins opening off screen

Cannot change bin capitalization

New iMacs qualified for MC 6.5.2

Premiere

Premiere has no continuous rasterization function so scaling of vectors may not be high quality

Walking away from the computer without saving the project will eventually fill up your Autosave Vault with identical copies
(this is where Pro Versioner can help)

Video playback may not work with the Blackmagic 9.7 driver

Mono tracks may be quieter than stereo tracks

FCPX

Performance issues with the new 27" iMac

Workaround for flash frames in FCPX 10.0.6+

Encore

Embedded Premiere chapter markers can sometimes cause an Encore burn to fail

Compressor

Certain frame sizes with a watermark make jobs fail

Misc

Typing a specific text string can crash almost any app on OS X 10.8

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sunday February 10 2013 6:51 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 1-27-13

Another installment of serious, useful and bizarre bugs in your NLE.

Avid

QuickTime movies with timecode tracks do not work correctly with Fast Start

DISK_TOO_MANY_OPEN error on ISIS could be caused by invisible OS X system files

Select Project window cannot be resized to show long filenames

Users still experiencing lag with third party I/O cards

Unable to rename template items in Marquee

Premiere

The timeline doesn't play back (CS Repair can fix this)

Blend effect does not work well with retimed clips

Error 213:11 if permissions are incorrect (Windows)

No way to customize the autosave location (Pro Versioner helps with this)

Keyboard timeline navigation sometimes stops working

DNxHD clips exported from Avid in 601/709 space will need a level adjustment before they will display correctly in Premiere

Several Blackmagic users reporting playback issues

Premiere does not allow Firewire output when hardware MPE is active

FCPX

Final Cut Pro X hangs when loading a project

Tips for color correcting with dual viewers

Misc

I suddenly feel better about Avid's cryptic errors

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sunday January 27 2013 1:54 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Final Cut Pro X hangs when loading a project

Some of you may have experienced the beachball of death when FCPX tries to load a project and eventually resorted to force-quitting the app.

In most cases, the app hasn't hung at all but is just taking a really long time to open the project. If you leave it long enough (8-12 hours) it should eventually open. We recommend running our Project Repair tool to optimize the project file before doing this, as the optimization process lowers the file size and can shave off some loading time.

The reason it is taking so long is that the project has become too complex. A common cause of this is over-use of compound clips, especially compound clips inside multiclips. I have seen this lead to multi-gigabyte project files, even though the timeline was only a few minutes long.

Once the project opens successfully, begin the process of removing the compound clips. FCPX will hang for a short while whenever you try to do anything, but as you reduce the number of compound clips it will become more and more responsive.

Posted by Jon Chappell on Monday January 21 2013 12:17 PM to Video Editing, Final Cut Studio, Tutorials
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Bugs of the Week - 1-19-13

After a little hiatus, Bugs of the Week is back with more serious, interesting or unusual bugs for your NLE.

Premiere

Premiere doesn't have a disk-based thumbnail cache so all thumbnails need to be regenerated upon opening a project

Premiere has a 99 track limit which limits the number of possible layers in a PSD file

You cannot move a clip by typing in numbers if your keyboard doesn't have a numpad

Dip to White start value is ignored with CUDA acceleration enabled

Speech recognition modifies the script

If Premiere crashes and won't relaunch, check that the process is no still running (Windows)

Trick for match-framing to a sequence in a nest

Avid

Summary of some of the changes in Media Composer 6.5.2 (improved trimming performance is huge if true)

Surround channels can be incorrectly assigned when imported from Pro Tools

Blue color shift with Avid FX

Misc

Thunderbolt devices can be disrupted by mobile phone signals (apparently this can also affect FireWire)

Posted by Jon Chappell on Saturday January 19 2013 12:32 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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Bugs of the Week - 12-9-12

Here are some more critical, useful and bizarre bugs that you should know about.

Premiere Pro

Canon C300 spanned clips can be merged in the wrong order

Premiere processes all audio clips in a sequence, even when only exporting a small section

Clip markers disappear after reconnecting media

Several reports of render files disappearing

Premiere may not load after updating QuickTime to 7.7.3 (Win 7)

H.264 CBR is not constant

Incorrect in and out points in subclips when importing FCP XML

Premiere hangs when opening a project on a computer with fewer monitors than the one it was saved on

Unable to name a captured clip if capture is stopped

Switching to "H.264 for Blu-ray" preset causes bitrate option to disappear

Audio out of sync when exported as AAC

Positions in the title editor are relative to the center of the object so it is difficult to line up left/right aligned text

FCPX

FCPX 10.0.7 released with several major bug fixes

You may experience problems running plugins and Motion templates created for 10.0.6 on earlier versions

Upside-down frames from plugins not fixed in 10.0.7

Cannot eject external drives while FCPX is running

Several reports of frames not being shown in the timeline

FCP 7

How to Fix Red Exclamation Mark Error in FCP7 Log & Transfer

Posted by Jon Chappell on Sunday December 9 2012 12:10 PM to Video Editing, Software, Bugs of the Week
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