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Freeze frame ???
Hi All,
I’m doing a long 4×3 project where I’m using hundreds of Freeze Frames. I’m starting to notice my systems moving a little slower. Am I heading for major workflow problems in the next few weeks because of the freeze frames?
Thanks in advance
Matt -
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If you’re making the freeze frames correctly this shouldn’t be an issue. You might want to push up your still cache memory a bit, but freezes don’t take much space.
All the best,
Tom
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When FCP makes FREEZE FRAMES, it isn’t making separate files, like an Avid does. Do that in Avid and it renders out a small freeze frame file. FCP doesn’t do that. FCP makes the freeze frame and it is managed by the project file. It is just adding to the file size of the project, and making an additional resource that the project has to manage. Speed changes too. So if you have MANY of these, the project gets bloated and might slow down.
This is a poor way of doing this, and I wish FCP would just make an actual file for this. Much easier on the system.
Shane
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I had a project that was 3 DVD’s of about 2 hours in length with TONS of freeze frames. It was action footage so I was also applying a deinterlace filter to the freeze frame. And yes, it did start slowing down. It was mostly just waiting for saves, autosaves, and refreshing the display. It was unbearable, and I was still able to play back the timeline with multiple streams in real time from a firewire drive. DV footage.
-trevor ward
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