• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP 4.5 Sluggish.. again

  Posted by Ace Billet on May 16, 2007 at 12:27 pm

  I have a project that holds 16 1-minute sequences.
  about half of them are stopmotion sequences (i.e. a lot of 1-2 frames long shots)
  The project is about 8 MB.

  I feel a general slugginesh while working, especially when moving clips around
  the stop-motion nested sequences.
  It’s also very hard to make clips longer (i.e. pulling the handles) – I pull the handle,
  and FCP won’t react or takes about 10 seconds to pull the handle, not always to the lenght
  I’m after.

  I truned off dupe frames, thumbnails etc.

  the problem really bugs me and hurts the workflow. Any ideas why this happens ?

  Best
  Billet

  this kind of better

  Eduardo Dutra replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

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  Jerry Hofmann

  May 16, 2007 at 6:25 pm

  Yeah, because your RAM is being hogged by all those stills… Export them as self contained QT movies, and things will speed up big time.

  Jerry
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  Eduardo Dutra

  May 30, 2007 at 8:57 am

  Hi,
  I just came across your post.
  I am just preparing for a 8min. stopmotion project in fcp4.5 myself. I had attempted it once already but decided to abandon it and start fresh as I was having issues with stuttering playback that I could not figure out.

  I have completed a couple small projects with fcp but consider myself a beginner level user.

  My stills are 1280×720
  I am on a G5 dual 2.5 w/ 2.5 GB ram
  I have a 500 GB external fw drive

  I was thinking of making qt movies of each shot etc. as you have.
  I am wondering about optimizing fcp for a smooth stopmotion edit.

  My concerns are the sheer amount of files etc. and getting smooth playback.

  Do you have any advice on setting up, project settings and organizing etc?

  Any help would be much appreciated.
  Thanks,
  Ed

  What have I done?!,
  Ed-itor

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