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Final Cut bad with 1080psf
I’ve posted a similar quandary before, but may have narrowed it down. Occasionally, when working with HD files in Final Cut (mostly ProRes) the timeline will suddenly get very slow and “pinwheel” all over the place making editing almost impossible. I can edit a whole project, then on the next project or next day this will happen. When it happens, every project, even SD effected. I am now pretty surethat this only happens when I try to edit 1080psf files. I deal with commercials so space isn’t an issue, I’ve restarted, I’ve trashed preferences with no luck. Has anyone had a similar experience?
System specs – 2×2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 12GB 1066 MHz DDR3 Memory, Mac OS X 10.6.6, Final Cut 7. Media stored on RAID drive connected via Firewire800.
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Hi Mike,
When working with PSF stuff you always need to do two things:
– Check the footage as Progressive (NONE) on the Browser.
– Edit on a Progressive (NONE) sequence.
rafael -
Media…is it PRORES, or Uncompressed?
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It is all ProRes footage. I use the Easy Setup for ProRes 1080psf 23.98. My sequence is set up as Progressive, 23.98, Field Dominance = None.
“Check the footage as Progressive (NONE) on the Browser.”
What setting are you talking about when you say “Browser”
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[Mike Alexander] “What setting are you talking about when you say “Browser””
FC may be interpreting the footage as Interlaced.
You need to check in the Browser window > Field Order column that the footage shows up as NONE.
You have to do that before dragging any clip to the time-line.
PSf is something that exists on tapes and streams. files have to be treated as plain Progressive.
rafael -
That doesn’t seem to be it. Everything in the Brower says “None” and 23.98. I cannot even play in the Clip Viewer window. Everything slows to a crawl.
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For HD, it is all ProResHQ. I curently, cannot do Uncompressed.
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I’m not actually doing any editing to be honest. This is simple digitize an HD commercial spot and possibly put on a new slate or add a graphic tag to the end. The slow down happens before I add any graphics at all to the project. If I export (Compressor or QTConversion) and change the spot to 1080i, I can start a new 1080i project and bring it in and have no problems whatsoever.
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[Mike Alexander] “That doesn’t seem to be it. Everything in the Brower says “None” and 23.98. I cannot even play in the Clip Viewer window. Everything slows to a crawl.”
Your setting are OK; probably your system, as Dave suggests, needs some maintenance: Permisions, directories,..
rafael -
Are you using a Kona3 card? If that card is referenced to 29.97 and you load a 23.98 seg… FCP will be very unhappy. If the above is the case either switch your ref to 23.98, feed a 23.98 HDSDI signal and switch sync to input, or switch to Free Run.
John Heagy
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