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FCP on long shows?
Just wondering what peoples experiences have been with FCP on long shows in HD (1 hr and up).
I have been doing 23 min shows using prores in HD without too many problems. I remember
reading about problems with timelines getting slow and buggy with long shows in the past…Is it more stable now with v6 and up? We have a series coming up and we need to decide whether to online in FCP or try to autoduck it to Avid. -
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It’s really great in longform. A 2 hour uncompressed HD timeline with 10 layers of graphics and 16 channels of auido = no problem. That was on an old dual G5!
It DOES get sluggish when you have lots of old cuts… like those 35 incremental rough cuts. At that point you duplicate your project file, and delete all that old stuff out and FCP is zooming along. You still have them stored in your old project file for reference.
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I have used FCP on four long form docuementaries. 90 min shows (that air as 2 hours) for the History Channel. Now I am working on a History Channel series that are all 1 hours shows (45 min of actual show content).
Smooth as silk. Smoother than the Avid workflow in many cases.
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I just finished a 97 minute feature that was shot & posted entirely in 720P, no offline. We had maybe 8-10 minutes of archival footage that originated in SD (both PAL & NTSC) and 2 or 3 minutes of archival footage in 2K, all cut straight into a 720P timeline. FCP gave us no major problems.
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Just finished a 2 hr HD show for MyNetwork TV. Smooth as glass.
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Finishing up a two hour long concert (with four cameras, so that’s 8 hours of multiclip footage) with no hitches. ProRes 1080p.
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