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Couple of questions about importing / transcoding
Appreciate any input with the following…
If I choose to create optimized or proxy media when importing, will I have 2 copies of each clip (original and transcoded) on my storage device… and wouldn’t that quickly burn through disk space?
Would it do any harm to import (with transcode), edit, render then delete the contents of the ‘Transcoded’ folder (assuming I accept a manual transcode if I want to re-edit with the same efficiency).
Many thanks,
Phil.
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Yes, to the first. Depends on the format you’re working in. Many camera formats are relatively small files.
Don’t understand the second question. Don’t see the point of what you’re trying to do there.
All the best,
Tom
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Thanks for the reply Tom. Your answers to other posters’ questions have been a great help to me in the past.
The second question was about preserving hard drive space. Having just run a test:
– 60sec of original media is 103MB
– Optimized version is 766MB
– Proxy version is 132MBSo an hour of footage transcoded to the optimized version requires 50GB as opposed to 6GB. I probably capture about 5 hours of footage a week and back up to another drive, so there’s two 1TB drives a month!
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What format is this? AVCHD? If you’re computer’s fast enough, why don’t you just work in the original media?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Coming in 2012 “Complete Training for FCPX” from Class on Demand
“Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users” from Focal Press -
Yes AVCHD.
It can get a bit stuttery with original media but nothing unbearable. Multiple crashes per day and struggles with stacked text / transitions but isn’t that everyone? Specs below.
I’ve got to get a second machine this month and I’m wondering whether a better graphics card or more RAM would make a noticeable difference?
Specs:
3.4 GHz quad core i7 processor (Intel)
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB
4GB (two 2GB) of 1333MHz DDR3 RAM. -
I’d recommend an RAM upgrade. I noticed a night and day difference going from 4GB to 12GB. Under $100 upgrade too.
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