hi res stills slow down and crash fcp

[Amy Wilson]

So to “decompress” my jpgs can i just open it in photoshop and “save as” another format? I will try some system maintenance as well.
thanks

[Rafael Amador]

You can do it with PHS and even with “Preview”. Just convert the .jpgs in PNG (bit map 8b RGB). Is the same that FC would do before rendering.
You can try to batch convert all the stills at once (but don’t ask me how, I really don’t know:-)
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Richard Boghosian]

I have found that with FCP. the ONLY file format that works smoothly is a PNG file (which by default is RGB) BTY, I try to keep the images below 5 meg in size. I own an 8 core, with 4 Gb RAM and the stills handling capabilities of the FCP ver 5 and now 6 are pitiful. You’d think that working with stills would be a cakewalk for a system that is HD 30 fps capable.

Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions

FCP 5.14 Intel Quad XRaid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe

[Paul Redgrove]

I have the same problem when replaceing rights-restricted video for stills and animating them. My work around is – double click image>save>double click image>re open FCP etc etc.

From reading here I guess add ‘crap handling of stills’ to the growing list of drawbacks with FCP

Paul Redgrove

[Amy Wilson]

I ended up having success editing with stills once I stopped using the IoHD and production monditor.