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He video out freezes when playingback material that has an orange render bar
This is a new issue I have discovered after upgrading the LHe drivers to the latest. I have downgraded and upgraded without much success, however I am have not spent a lot of time in this area as I have to edit my material. I used to be able to playback tons of footage with the orange render bar in FCP and while it would stutter and strobe and look like crap, I could get a decent preview. Now, after playing for a few seconds, the output will freeze while the window in FCP will keep playing. I have set everything on High and unlimited in terms of RT settings. My video output settings have not changed. This happens with multiclip and single clip footage – anything that has an orange render bar. Please help.
I have a quad g5 with 4 gig of ram and a multitude of external arrays capable of playing back what i need.
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Instead of high, choose dynamic. How fast are your scratch disks?
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Obviously you are not reading. Dynamic is not sufficient – only high is what I want – this worked before and NEEDS to work now. All of my scratch discs exceed 180mb/s
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[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “Obviously you are not reading.”
Yeah, just trying to help you out for free. Are you reading, at least between the lines?
[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “this worked before and NEEDS to work now.”
What kind of material are you playing back? What kind of timeline are you working in?
Have to trashed your waveform and thumbnail caches to let them rebuild and have you also trashed your OBJ and Profile caches to get a fresh speed profile?
And I think you mean 180MB/sec as opposed to 180mb/sec? Big difference, am I reading that correctly?
Jeremy
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The speed correction would be accurate. I am working with DVCPro 50, DV, and DVCPro HD material all in their proper timelines. I have never been good at reading between the lines – I like things straight forward. I have trashed the FCP preferences in Library. Can you explain where these other ones are?
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[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “I am working with DVCPro 50, DV, and DVCPro HD material all in their proper timelines”
And do you change the easy setup when you change timelines?
What is causing the orange bar?
[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “Can you explain where these other ones are?”
User > Library > Preferences > Final Cut Pro User Data
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I have deleted those as well. I change the easy setup EVERY TIME. Filters and resizing and composting and simple credits are causing the orange render bar.
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Politeness goes a long way in the forums. Much better tone in this one.
If you have RT Unlimited set to Quality: High and Frame Rate: High, you are locking the process down. To playback orange footage you have to allow quality and frame to drop. WHich you said was happening in the first post. Most of the time it is best to leave both on on Dynamic but if you need to see quality at least frame rate needs to be al dynamic or if you need to see it smoother you do the opposite.
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[Ian Liuzzi-Fedun] “Filters and resizing and composting and simple credits are causing the orange render bar.”
OK, so you have filter(s), resizing/compositing and credits?
That’s a lot to expect in real time. What format are the credits? ProRes 444 I hope? If you have a transfer mode, you can’t expect much in rt. FCP is not a huge rt workhorse, especially when you start stacking stuff like you are.
I’d still set your sequence to dynamic rt.
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These are not going on all at once. These are just examples of what causes an orange render bar. My credits are done in boris right in FCP. Again, I have been able to get a credit-roll to work almost perfectly without ever having this issue.
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I am quite insulted by all of these posts. All of these facts I know. I am not new to Final Cut pro nor do I believe I give the impression of such. I am familiar with the real-time settings and I know what I am talking about. There is no obvious mistake here. I am having the same thing happen on two G5 Quads and this is a real problem. Is there anyone that has a possible solution other than tinkering with settings that have already been touched by me and suggested and explained countless time by others.
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