Deleting issues.

[Ben Insler]

David,

Are you using a lot of stills in your timeline? I’ve run into this problem many times where making changes to the timeline (when deleting, inserting, or moving footage) causes final cut to think for long periods of time when you’re using a lot of stills – my guess is that FCP handles stills differently than .mov files and when you have a lot of them, it takes a long time to re-enque the playback of all the stills in the timeline when you make a change.

I don’t know if that helps…

Best,

Ben

[David Garcia]

We do have alot of stills. Interesting. maybe i should render them as Mov files. Or deal with it. curious.

Thanks for the help.

David

david garcia
Halflife* Digital
albuquerque, nm

[Ben Insler]

I found it very frustrating. Sometimes moving or deleting a still in our timeline would stall the system for significant periods of time – I remeber a 10 minute stall actually. If your still segments are finalized and you know you won’t be changing them, rendering out the segments and replacing the images with the .mov files should fix the problem. I can’t remember if we were able to just place the .mov file on a new track above the stills or if we actually had to remove the stills from the timeline altogether – you’ll have to try it. But if you’re going to be deleting the stills when you add the .mov, I’d definately recommend keeping a backup of the timeline with all the stills in it so that if you do need to make a change at some point, you can just copy and paste them all again.

Good luck,

Ben

Ben Insler
Editor
Telemark Films