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Audio waveform redraw
I know this has been discussed before and I have searched the forums with no definitive answer. We all know the audio waveforms redraw painfully slow. Has ANYONE found a solution to this?? I have several long form pieces to edit that require me to constantly zoom in and out with the waveform turned on. I can’t tell you what a painfully frustrating process this is. I should have been done this project hours ago but because of this issue I don’t even want to look at this project.
It just doesn’t make sense to me. I have a Promax built Octo system with plenty of RAM. I’m still kinda new to FCP but for the life of me I can’t figure out why an advanced program like FCP run on a state of the art system can’t redraw a waveform in a timely fashion.
Mick Haensler
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I guess you could buy a solid state disk and set your waveform cache to it. Other than that I don’t think there’s much you can do. This is just one of the many daunting issues that show Final Cut’s age and it’s desperate need for a total re-write.
Sean
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agreed. if its that much of a pain, I just turn them off and deal with it that way.
It needs to work the way it does in vegas, it builds it one single time and properly caches it from then on. no re-drawing unless you delete the cache. and even if it must redraw, then don’t slow the damn system down while its doing it. Ridiculous with the kind of gpu power the stock pci-e cards have now.
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Back in 1997 on Media 100 version 5, it drew the waveform once and then that was it. It never slowed down the system. In fact you couldn’t even turn off the waveform, not that you’d ever want to.
Sean
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Even lowly freeware audio editors like Audacity don’t have this issue. It just makes no sense to me whatsoever. Thanks for the sympathy. Maybe in the next upgrade.
Mick Haensler
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adding my voice to the mix…. I use vegas a lot, have done since v2 & just bought v10 to run under b/c on this imac. also have FCStudio7. for various reasons, research not the least of them, I’ve done some of the work in each, & at the moment, vegas is winning.
this business of the audio waveform display is the main reason I dislike FCP. I can’t see any reason to use it at all, in fact… I have just this minute talked myself into finishing the project in vegas. damn, that felt good. an actual decision.
much of the footage is HD, from one of those $500 consumer HD camcorders that uses cards. vegas loads these natively, quite happily carving up the mpeg. FCP insists on making an intermediate format, which takes up loads of room.
but most of all- I’m trying to sync up three cameras by examining the audio. I can’t help it- that’s the way I work. but FCP is making this impossible with its constant redrawing.
yes, off to bootcamp & vegas 10.
duncan.
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