diaster caused by apples latest FCP update

[Richard Sanchez]

A little more information would help. Are you working in an HD or SD sequence? Are you trying to make a standard def DVD? Also, if your photos are extremely high res, sometimes that can cause Final Cut to choke. We had that problem on a program I was working on recently, so we started using After Effects for photo pushes (especially since you need a higher res image to achieve that Ken Burns effect).

Richard Sanchez
Arcadia, CA

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks

[Bill Dewald]

have you trashed your prefs?

[Jeremy Garchow]

have you exported a self contained or refrence movie and then brought that in to Compressor? Don’t export to Compressor direct from FCP.

jeremy

[Michael Alberts]

FCP 2.06 came out about seven years ago! Is this what you are using? Other things to look at are the size of the photo’s themselves. What is the resolution of these photos. With that many photo’s on a timeline you should really try and keep the dimensions down. If these are 4000×3000 sized photo’s you’re in for a world of hurt when trying to render.
We need some more details to go on in order to offer up some useful help.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
http://www.ambidextrous.net

[Tom Brooks]

For a slide show, maybe Keynote or iPhoto would be the better choice.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Tom Brooks] “For a slide show, maybe Keynote or iPhoto would be the better choice.”

I do slide shows in Motion. Pretty damn fast.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
https://www.arniepix.com/

[George Mizzell]

Jeremy

Actually i have not heard of doing it that way. i have always rendered straight to compressor. None of the 5 or 6 books I have on FCP mentioned doing it that way. What do you mean by Reference movie?

Thanks

Oh, BTW sorry for the multiple posts. I submitted from the iphone and got no indication that I had tapped the button until the last one.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[George Mizzell]

I am sooooo sorry – I submitted this from my iphone and got the numbers reversed – it is version 6.0.4.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan

[Jeremy Garchow]

[george mizzell] “What do you mean by Reference movie? “

A reference movie is basically a QT movie that references all the hard media on your computer. It is a small QT movie that contains all the pointers, resulting in a much easier and more quick way to export a movie from FCP and will save you lots of disk space. You cannot move a QT ref movie to another computer as it references the media on your capture scratch drive.

File > Export > Quicktime Movie. Choose current settings, then leave recompress all frames and make self contained UNCHECKED. Take the resulting export to Compressor and then do your compressing.

Jeremy

[George Mizzell]

Actually I have processed hundreds of videos from 2 minutes to 3 hours long on this computer and with the previous version before the deadly update yesterday. All of the rendering drive locations and everything as far as I can tell are still the same. Everything looks OK. I have gotten lots of Apple crashes where FCP dies and asks to send the report to Apple which I have done about 20 times so far and I only send the report about every 10th crash. I changed the Sequence settings for the timeline options – Thumbnail Display to name from Name + Thumbnail and that has stopped the relentless crashes. But now it will not render. Before on the 1 out 15 times that it would stay up it would render transitions while it was up. Then when I changed the thumbnail display option it stopped crashing but now will not render.

I have just selected very small segments – 3 – 10 second clips and it is rendering them to quicktime. I am not sure if that leads to a loss of quality or not. I had always tried to keep things to the highest quality and thought that rendering direct to compressor was the way to do that.

George Mizzell
The SupermagnetMan