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JPEGs in ProRes 1080i Sequence
I have found various posts talking about this issue, but I hadn’t stumbled across any that offer insight into what I’m trying to achieve. I am working on a project that has footage and also a few hundred photos in it. The footage is 1080p 30fps shot from a Canon 7D. I ingested using ProRes 422 and created a sequence matching the footage settings (automatically).
I drag and drop the photos into the timeline from the browser and they require rendering. I am working with lots of keyframing, up to 4 layers, effects and fades, all of which require more rendering. I don’t mind waiting on all the extra stuff to render, I usually only render it to see if what I’ve done to it is what I was aiming to do, but having to re-render the entire clip each time without adjustments on top of that can become very time consuming. I also must wait on “Preparing video to display” if I try jumping from one point to another in the timeline.Details:
Sequence has been automatically set to match the footage I’m using (and can run up to 4 Tracks Stacked each at 50% Opacity beautifully without choppiness or rendering): 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i 16:9, Square, Non-Anamophic, Field Dom: None, ProRes 422, Quality 100%Photos are JPEG, mostly 3:2 at around 3456 x 2304 (give or take ~800), 72dpi.
Mac is 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (Early 2008), OS 10.5.8, ID 3.1, 12GB 800 MHz DDR2, FCP 6.0.6, 256MB ATI Radeon 2600 PCIe
Question:
What is the best way to go about inserting the photos into the timeline?Other Notes: I recently encountered an error while trying to render the entirety of the sequence. “Error: Not Enough Memory.” I have created a new sequence of the same settings and copied all the footage over to render again and see if this eliminates the error. So far so good, in another few hours we’ll know for sure. If that doesn’t work, I’m currently creating TIFF copies of the photos with a width of 1920 or height of 1080 (depending on photo orientation); somewhat annoying and I wish I had an automator script to do it, but hoping this will help in the long run?
Media Convergence Specialist
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2 Replies
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converting pics to tiff (or png) should speed things up, jpegs are highly compressed and require a lot more effort.
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Thank you both for your responses. I have resized the images and they are now tiffs and are working much faster in FCP. As for using Motion, a good suggestion, and it would have been my first choice. However, in short: a lot of vital Motion files were destroyed and it needs to be reinstalled (Not Myself). Reinstallation will happen soon, and in the not too distant future I hope** to have the new Final Cut Studio, but as deadlines don’t wait so I’m making due (I also don’t know about reinstalling in the middle of a project). And thanks to you guys I can get on with things with fewer problems and more solutions!
Media Convergence Specialist
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