File too large

[Dexter Mcbride]

You shouldn’t be using a USB drive for editing. That may be compounding your troubles. And using your system drive is also a bad idea.

[Kylee Pena]

Yea, that’s the only thing with prores, the files are much bigger, and no, as far as I know there’s nothing to be done about it. However, it’s worth it to be able to edit things, so I would invest in a good external that isn’t usb. What’s a few gigs in the land of terabytes?

[Danielle Warren]

Thank you, just bought a new 1TB drive. Once that arrives I’ll be ready to go. Thanks for all the help!

[Michael Gissing]

Most important is to convert the audio as well from aac to PCM at 48Khz sample rate. This can be done in compressor at the same time as transcoding to ProRes.ProRes HQ is not necessary.

To answer your other question – no you can’t uprez it back to the original quality if you make it DV codec, but you can make your ProRes file in an HD spec and just edit in HD. This is easy to do in FCP with ProRes providing your drives are fast enough. The pixel size you have been given is strange. Make it 1920 x 1080 which is a proper HD size.

[Danielle Warren]

Thanks for all the advice. I got a 1TB drive this weekend and started the compression this afternoon. It’s been running about 45 minutes, and it says time remaining is around 119:37:39. This seems like an insane amount of time. Have I done anything wrong? In FCP I right clicked the file -> send to Compressor. In Compressor, I dropped the Apple ProRes 422 on the file, it said it would come out to about 57GB. I hit submit and opened up batch monitor. I knew it would take a while, but 4 days seems excessive. Any help at this point?

[Danielle Warren]

Hi Michael,
Not sure if anyone saw my last post, so I will sum it up. I got the TB drive, and started the transcoding in compressor yesterday. I left it running overnight (16 hours later) and checked it this morning to see that a mere 10% was complete and there was roughly 143 hours to go! I need to have this thing cut in the next few days, I can’t wait a week for this process. Am I doing something wrong? And is there anything else I can do? I don’t have my tower here which I’m sure would make it faster, but I didn’t think it would take this long on my Macbook Pro. Help!

[Joey Burnham]

At this point I think you either need to get a tower, have somebody else do this for you, or have the original vendor send a new file to you in another codec. It seems you are limited by your hardware…
HD is expensive.
Best of luck,
Joey

[Danielle Warren]

Hi Joey,
That’s pretty much the conclusion I came to. Thank you for summing it up! As I said in the original post, my work has always been in done in SD as it’s all offline and no need for HD so this is new to me. I didn’t realize it was this hardware intensive. Thanks for all the help!

PS: Any suggestions on a person or place that can do this sort of thing?

[Joey Burnham]

[Danielle Warren] ”
PS: Any suggestions on a person or place that can do this sort of thing?”

Where ya located?

[Danielle Warren]

NY