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Beach Ball… Hierarchy? or ProResHQ?
Hello, I’m doing an offline edit on a RED feature film. We are using the new FCP 3 and ProRes HQ files for our offline. Every hour or so I am getting a beach ball spinning when I hit play, I’m only running 1 stream of video and 1 stream of audio. I’m using an 8 core 2.93 GHz with 8 Gigs of RAM. The media is being stored on an 8TB CalDigit HDPro.
I suspect one of two things either, the ProRes HQ is too high a resolution for FCP to handle, or I have all the media stored in a single folder and that the system needs more of a hierarchy with the media broken up better in order to keep track of everything…
Can anyone confirm or rebuke any of my assumptions, or have any other ideas what the problem could be?
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[Charles Breiner] “I suspect one of two things either, the ProRes HQ is too high a resolution for FCP to handle, or I have all the media stored in a single folder and that the system needs more of a hierarchy with the media broken up better in order to keep track of everything… “
Both of those are wrong. ProRes HQ is a very easy format for most any Intel system to play. You want all your media in one folder as assigned by FCP, generally this is one capture scratch folder.
How much room is available on that media array?
For large projects, it can help to break it up into multiple projects. For a documentary I’m editing now that has over 75 hours of material, we have one Capture Scratch folder that we capture all raw media in to. Then for each section of the Documentary I create a separate project and only bring in the media from the Capture Project that I need for that particular section.
Shane Ross’ Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro DVD covers some great techniques for managing large projects. It’s available in the Cow store. I own it and that’s where I got that particular project management idea.
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I agree with Walter.
I don’t think is the codec neither the media organization.
I would suggest a bit of system/HDs maintenance: DiskWarrior, TechTools,..
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I’ve used both Disk Warrior, and Tech Tools and haven’t found any problems… We are using RAID 5, is there a faster RAID set that might eliminate the beach ball? The CalDigits should be more than fast enough to handle the footage for editing? correct?
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