• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  too much footage?

  Posted by Shannon Bedford on June 18, 2010 at 8:31 am

  I am about to quote on a very unusual job and I need to calculate how long this will take.

  The client has security camera vision from 3 cameras supplied as .asf files. From EACH camera, there is 168 hours of footage!
  I need to speed these clips up to make them only 5-10 min long and drop them onto the timeline to show all three cameras on screen (3 x PIPs) at once. Easy right?

  The video content TOTAL is 86 gig, so space shouldn’t be an issue. (I have 420 gig free)

  I tested 5 min of footage, timed how long it took to upload, render, output etc. By my calculations I should be able to get this whole job done in about 6-7 hrs.

  My concern is, am I going to run into other problems given the sheer length of these clips or the size of the files? eg. Will Final Cut need a few extra hours of thinking time every time I click on an icon?

  I am working on FCP 6.0.6

  Thanks in advance!

  S Bedford, Western Australia

  Shannon Bedford replied 15 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Chris Tompkins

  June 18, 2010 at 12:39 pm

  504 Hours of DV footage is about 4.8TB of drive space just for the raw.

  You can’t edit the .ASF files can you?

  You’ll have to convert to DV or something. You better plan a couple weeks to complete this job.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta
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  Mark Suszko

  June 18, 2010 at 2:01 pm

  If these are time-lapse stills, maybe there is a way to export the stills in an image sequence, just at the point where they change, instyead of grabbing *every* frame even though they repeat. What’s handy about that is, you set up your bin preferences so that each still is two frames, drag thd stills to the timeline and bam, you have your time lapse, using much less storage than capturing a stream of video with one still every three seconds or so.

  I’m not familiar with .asf file format, wonder if there is a conversion plug-in like mpeg streamclip that would extract those stills?
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  Shannon Bedford

  June 21, 2010 at 9:15 am

  A 5 min sample of the asf video files were already supplied. I don’t have any stills. The asf files have imported into FCP no problem and I have already run a test on a 5 min clip. That’s what I based my calculation on.
  I’m just wondering if I am going to run into dramas when the client supplies the full 168 hrs x3 (86 GIG).

  S Bedford, Western Australia
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  Shannon Bedford

  June 21, 2010 at 9:17 am

  Hi Mark, see the response I sent to Chris.
  Cheers

  S Bedford, Western Australia

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