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Help with sequence and workflow please!!!
Hello
I am cutting a reel for a friend and i was given a bunch of quicktimes which are 720×486 but in a few different codecs (Uncompressed 8 bit & 10 bit, None & Apple Animation) I want to be able to cut in real time without things being all sticky and slow so my question is how do i go about this and then bring my cut once its locked back up to full res for output to dvd & web.
i guess this is also a general workflow question in terms of getting full res qt’s from artists and such and then being able to edit it at half res or whateve and then once the edit is locked bringing it back up to full res.
I have a Macpro 2x 2.8 ghz. quad-core 4gb ram with 1 additional internal hard drive that is 750 gb but not a RAID which I edit off of while my apps and everything else live on the HD.
I also have an ntsc monitor and a blackmagic decklink card but for some reason i dont see playback when i am in an ntsc animation sequence it only displays the picture when i am parked on a frame in the timeline – wont playback in realtime – i looked around a little bit on the forum and it seems that most people dont like the animation codec – regardless i think because of my equipment limitations I cannot play back uncompressed 8 or 10 bit anyways.
Any help people can provide would be a great help
thank you
Lisa
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2 Replies
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Animation does not play in realtime on FCP. You have to render it out in order to see it. My advice is to create an 8bit Uncompressed Sequence, put the Animation files into that timeline, then export them as self contained movies. That will give you the 8bit uncompressed files to edit with in realtime.
However, editing off a single drive is not the way to cut 8bit Uncompressed reliably. You will probably drop frames if you try to put too much media on that.
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Thanks for replying
I guess my question now is so then what settings to edit in and how does this workflow work exactly – again i have about 15 qt’s that are 8&10 but uncompressed, animation & none codecs and i want to be able to edit smoothly and then once its finished bring it to a high res quality and export for web & dvd.
any advice on this workflow and how it works ?
thank you
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