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FPC7 project takes an hour to open
My FPC Project takes nearly an hour to open. The project file is only 1.8MB. There’s 106 gigs of video files (mts) on an external WD Firewire 800 drive. I used Disk Utility, Tech Tool and Disc Rebellion Pro Maintenance Tools to no avail.
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Total Number of Cores: 2
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Memory: 12 GB
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[Michael Fasman] “There’s 106 gigs of video files (mts) on an external WD Firewire 800 drive. “
FCP doesn’t like to work with .MTS files natively. Best to convert them to ProREs.
Shane
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How long does it take to load when the drive is disconnected and all of the media is offline?
I’ve seen this before with dodgy media files. These are media files that are not necessarily corrupt but there’s something weird about them that FCP doesn’t like. I once encountered a project that would take ages to load and it eventually turned out that the AE had created a self-contained movie in QT Player from a reference clip and for some reason that was slowing FCP even though QuickTime Player played it just fine. So once the project loads, it may be worthwhile to look through the browser columns to spot clips that don’t quite match the others.
Also, presumably you have converted the MTS files to ProRes?
My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
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After hours of research it appears the issue is the WD GoFlex Free Agent drive which both hangs and isn’t fast enough. I’m now considering either the 2TB CalDigit or G-Raid
Michael Fasman
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I’m still logging 2 weeks worth of footage, haven’t tried editing. I though FCP 7 automatically transcodes to ProRes? If not do you have suggestions for doing so?
THANKS!
Michael Fasman
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[Michael Fasman] ” I though FCP 7 automatically transcodes to ProRes? If not do you have suggestions for doing so?”
No…FCP doesn’t automatically transcode. If you IMPORT, it makes clips that point to the media as is. To convert to ProRes you either log and transfer…using this workflow:
Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Or use ClipWrap2.
Shane
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[Michael Fasman] “After hours of research it appears the issue is the WD GoFlex Free Agent drive which both hangs and isn’t fast enough. I’m now considering either the 2TB CalDigit or G-Raid”
Whatever the media storage you use, FCP won’t be happy with unsupported stuff.
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Panasonic released the AVCCAM Importer (QuickTime Plug-in component). They say “The AVCCAM Importer QuickTime plug-in component is to enable direct editing of AVCHD “.mts” file (*1) without conversion. AVCHD clips recorded on a Panasonic AVCCAM lineup product can be handled directly in QuickTime 7 and Final Cut Pro 7.0.3.”
After installing all my clips appear in the bins and they seem to edit fine. Am I missing something? Do I need to spend $50 on ClipWrap?
https://eww.pass.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/support/desk/e/download.htm#avccamip
Michael Fasman
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[Michael Fasman] “Panasonic released the AVCCAM Importer (QuickTime Plug-in component). They say “The AVCCAM Importer QuickTime plug-in component is to enable direct editing of AVCHD “.mts” file (*1) without conversion. AVCHD clips recorded on a Panasonic AVCCAM lineup product can be handled directly in QuickTime 7 and Final Cut Pro 7.0.3.””
ou are absolutely right, in fact i downloaded the component (thinking on a Lumix that I’ve just bought), but I completely forgot about.
I’ve just downloded again. Curiously says “The software was updated for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). (Ver 1.1)’.
Hope its works on SL.
rafael -
FCP is designed to work with QuickTime media encoded with an I-frame codec such as ProRes, Apple Intermediate, Uncompressed, DV, etc. It does not work well with Long GOP media, even if you use a QuickTime importer to rewrap it on-the-fly.
You are trying to use FCP in a way that it was not designed for and you will run into problems. I would recommend transcoding your media to ProRes or editing the MTS files in an application like Adobe Premiere that is designed to work with native media.
My software:
Pro Maintenance Tools – Tools to keep Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro running smoothly and fix problems when they arise
Pro Media Tools – Edit QuickTime chapters and metdata, detect gamma shifts, edit markers, watch renders and more
More tools… -
That will let you view the files in QT…and yes, even import them into FCP. But just try to work with those files. It will be a total and utter BEAR to work with.
Best to transcode.
If you want the ability to work with AVCHD native, get Adobe PPro CS 5.5. And a GOOD graphics card that enables CUDA and the Mercury Engine. Because you’ll need serious power to manage AVCHD native.
Shane
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