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I just dont GET this. Viewer lightning fast… TImeline laggy…
This happens on and off all the time.
I am on a pretty state of the art machine.
But when i put my HDV footage into a timeline, match all settings to footage etc. It is really laggy when i scrub.
But in the VIewer, its 100% lightning fast scrubbing. HOw can this be?
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Hi
When people ask ‘why do my lovely sharp graphics look great in the Viewer, but horrible in the Canvas’ the answer people get here is that the Viewer is a QuickTime-engine’s display window, whilst the timeline and Canvas are working with the FCP display-engine, on top of FCP’s editing-ready code-base.Furthermore when you enable Real-time playback for the timeline, FCP reads-ahead the timeline and buffers the playback to the Canvas to allow the real-time to happen. Only it’s not quite real-time, there’s a slight buffering latency.
It’s that slight timeline read-ahead buffering that gives the slightly sticky scrubbing, I would guess…
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Oh ok, that makes sense now. I couldnt work it out before, seemed to be totally illogical that they acted differently within the same software.
Thanks for that,
Cheers,
J.
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