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30+ clips split screen without FCP chugging?
Hi all,
I have a project that requires 30+ clips at one time on screen. When I get them all out however FCP is so slow it’s virtually impossible to do anything. I’ve even tried nesting the seperate shots using their own timelines but that’s no use.
Any advice anyone could give me? Would be much appreciated!
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7 Replies
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30 clips means playing back 30 streams of video at once. That requires SERIOUS drive speed. But, if you render, then all 30 get rendered to one file…FCP can play back that one file fine.
Shane
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Have you tried working with 10 clips at a time?
Then you export those 10 as a single file and at the end just work with 3 files ?Pradip Patil
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What are you trying to accomplish? There may be a way to work around this.
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try this…click: Sequence/Settings/RenderControl/Resolution/25%.
you’ll be able to zip thru all your keyframes…reposition pics..etc. at a fast rate but lower resolution. when done with your composite repeat above and re click Resolution/100%.
if you have already rendered parts of the project you might have to trash those render files before you try the above.
i use this technique all the time when i have have a project that is logo-soup or heavy effects. -
My problem is it’s about an hour long and all the small images I’ve made need to be moving constantly. Everytime I try to keyframe a move obviously my system gets very upset.
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it’s about an hour long and all the small images I’ve made need to be moving constantly. I don’t care about quality whilst I’m editing just so long as FCP is not so slow it makes me animating images next to impossible.
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I’ve considered this, but seeing as the images I’m going to be moving are dependent on what’s going on in another, or what audio is happening, at one particular time it would be nice to see everything moving at once to get an idea of where to start/stop my animations.
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