• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Deleting issues.

  Posted by David Garcia on November 30, 2005 at 9:17 pm

  I’m having real problems deleting from the timeline in FCP 5. I have a fairly large project that we moved over from FCP 4.5.

  When I delete clips out of the timeline, the machine hangs up and I get the rainbow pinwheel of death. If I wait about three minutes the delete goes through. This is not really optimal for working.

  I’ve copied the project over in the media manager, streamlined it, deleted preferences … the lot. It doesn’t happen with newer projects and this happens on any machine I move the project to.

  Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks

  David

  david garcia
  Halflife* Digital
  albuquerque, nm

  Ben Insler replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Ben Insler

  December 1, 2005 at 8:09 pm

  David,

  Are you using a lot of stills in your timeline? I’ve run into this problem many times where making changes to the timeline (when deleting, inserting, or moving footage) causes final cut to think for long periods of time when you’re using a lot of stills – my guess is that FCP handles stills differently than .mov files and when you have a lot of them, it takes a long time to re-enque the playback of all the stills in the timeline when you make a change.

  I don’t know if that helps…

  Best,

  Ben
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  David Garcia

  December 1, 2005 at 10:21 pm

  We do have alot of stills. Interesting. maybe i should render them as Mov files. Or deal with it. curious.

  Thanks for the help.

  David

  david garcia
  Halflife* Digital
  albuquerque, nm
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  Ben Insler

  December 2, 2005 at 5:25 am

  I found it very frustrating. Sometimes moving or deleting a still in our timeline would stall the system for significant periods of time – I remeber a 10 minute stall actually. If your still segments are finalized and you know you won’t be changing them, rendering out the segments and replacing the images with the .mov files should fix the problem. I can’t remember if we were able to just place the .mov file on a new track above the stills or if we actually had to remove the stills from the timeline altogether – you’ll have to try it. But if you’re going to be deleting the stills when you add the .mov, I’d definately recommend keeping a backup of the timeline with all the stills in it so that if you do need to make a change at some point, you can just copy and paste them all again.

  Good luck,

  Ben

  Ben Insler
  Editor
  Telemark Films

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