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cleaning multicam projects
Our 10 stream uncompressed-multicam projects tend to start fresh and fast. Saves are fast, playback response is fast. After adding more and more cuts, the system slows down terribly until it starts crashing. This usually starts happening after about 500 cuts.
Another thing, when adding multiple graphics (different formats, PSD, TIFF, TGA) and mix them in a sequence… keyframing in the motion tab makes fcp crash quite easily?
Any ideas on how to work around these problems?
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10 uncompressed streams out of two XSR?
Ummmm…
Peter
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8but SD, not HD!
Do you experience the same ‘slowing down’ of those kind of projects?
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FCP slows down as the project file grows in size. Multicam makes huge project files pretty fast. I would try breaking up your sequences into seprate projects if possible.
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thanks guy,
still I was hoping there would be a way to somehow get rid of a lot of project info and just save the actual edits and nothing else. It almost looks like the project grows exponentially!
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Just a thought, but remember that while you are cutting, the sequence is holding all the info for all the camera angles so you can easily make changes. If you are done with the cutting, collapse your sequence to get back to single clips on the timeline. If you are done with one part, but not others, duplicate and break up into chunks and collapse the portions that are locked.
Sincerely,
OliverOliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
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Uncompressed multicam? Geez Louise.
We don’t even do that with the big AVID.
You should do your offline multicam in DV/DVCPRO
then uprez. You are pushing the technology,
not just FCP technology, but the whole read/write,
bandwidth thing too far.Also, project sizes get bigger because of the number of
sequences, not the number of cuts. If you are making
lots of sequences and even nesting them, you are
asking for trouble. Keep your sequence number down
and the project size will be lower.Still, you really should not be doing uncompressed
multicam. Multiclips are for rough cuts…making your
edit decisions. Then you uprez.Good night Gracie
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500 CUTS….how long is this uncompressed multicam project?
That is one sequence?
Non linear editors, even AVID, are not made to do 10 streams
of uncompressed editing with effects/transitions, graphics etc.
You use the multicam section of any non linear editor
to make your camera decisions at lower rez.
It’s a replacement for live switching. Then
use media manager to uprez to a single camera shot
in those timelines. Now add your effects and graphics
and titles etc. You will have no slowdowns.Dan
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As far as your stills go, it is advantageous to keep all your graphics to the same format and optimized to not be more than 2x the native frame size and no more than 72 DPI. Otherwise, it’s overkill.
Kevin Monahan
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