Okay, so here's a new one which is a real pain; any insight would be much appreciated.
I am finishing a 1080p 23.98 feature length project in Shake. The timeline was broken up and imported from Final Cut but each Shake 'reel' is still quite involved, likesay--10 mins long and 80 clips on a Select node, not to mention all the corrections and digital comps.
Now when I render I am discovering that Shake will 'drop' a frame around the four minute mark. It's like the end point of one of the clips gets cut off by one frame and everything following that clip is also scooted over one frame to the left. I can work around it by dropping the Shake rendered sequence into Final Cut, finding the dropped frame, cutting the rendered sequence at that point, scooting the remainder of the sequence clip over one frame to the right and then rerendering and inserting the missing frame into the resulting hole...
Anyone know why this might be happening? Could it be caused by drift between 23.98 and 23.976? I know in After Effects long clips will get out of whack if you don't specify 23.976.
I am running a dual 2.5 G5,7 gigs ram, OS X.4.3 and rendering the sequence with the apple uncompressed 10bit codec.
Thanks,
Lance