• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sudden loss of smooth rendered motion

  Posted by Arya Boustani on April 19, 2011 at 7:54 pm

  Hi there,
  I had a finished project with FCP 7, sort of Ken Burns effect on stills. I used Pro Res 422 HQ and everything was fine. I switched my computer to a supposedly more powerful one (3,1 8 core instead of 1,1 4 core, nVidia 8800 instead of ATI X1900). I moved my assets to the internal SATA drive of the computer as opposed to the original location which was an external FW800 (both 1TB). I opened the project, and all of a sudden, the rendered material motion has lost its smoothness. I just used TechTool Pro to optimize the file and volume and get rid of the fragmented stuff. I haven’t checked it yet but I thought I bring it up to you to see if merely changing the computer / graphic card would result in such issue due to improper rendered material (i.e. if I need to render again or something else?)

  Thanks for your help,

  Arya

  Michael Gissing replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Bret Williams

  April 19, 2011 at 10:07 pm

  Check the playback and or render settings and make sure they’re at full frame rate. I set mine to render half frame rate once to speed up renders. I forgot and it drove me nuts until I remembered.
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  Michael Gissing

  April 19, 2011 at 10:43 pm

  Did you move the media and render files to your internal system drive or another internal? You will have playback issues with media files on the system drive. And as Brett said, check all your playback settings.
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  Arya Boustani

  April 20, 2011 at 10:19 pm

  Thanks for the comments. I already checked the full frame rate. Also I tried both dynamic quality and full quality. I have a second 1TB internal drive in my Mac Pro which I keep all my media projects. I believe it has enough juice on it. It is about 36 percent full. I didn’t seem to get much of the increased smoothness after I did the defragmentation. I’m also trying to see changing allocated memory would do any thing.
  I’m copying the content to my original FW800 drive to compare. Or I may do disk allocation for the render material to be read from a different drive.

  Any other thoughts?
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  Michael Gissing

  April 21, 2011 at 12:06 am

  After switching machines, did you re-render? It may be necessary to trash the renders and re-render. I notice also you are using the NVIDIA card. ATI is recommended for FCP and although many people do successfully use the NVIDIA card, there may be something in the change of graphics card from one system to the other, particularly if you are using FX plugins.

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