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Initialize To Tape Very Slow
Hi,
When I click on Edit To Tape I have to wait around 5 minutes for it to initialize, and once it opens I have to wait a further 5 minutes after dropping the sequence into the assemble edit box. It will start laying back the sequence to tape (digibeta) but if I cancel it for any reason I have to wait another 5 minutes or so before I can quit the Edit To Tape function. I’ve tried using different projects with different sequences of varying lengths and it doesn’t make any difference. Will trashing the preferences make any difference to this or is there another way around it? The deck works fine when sending from an Avid so it’s a problem with FCP (or FCP speaking to my video card perhaps). Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben.
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4 Replies
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System Setup?
Capture Card?
Media Array?
Timeline Settings?
Is everything fully rendered in your timeline?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” Winner, Best Documentary, LA Reel Film Festival.
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We would do this:
Open a terminal and run top. While that’s going, hit your edit to tape thing and see if something comes up that’s using a lot of cpu (or at least actively running. Take a note of it’s PID (Process ID) on the left.Once you know what that is, kill top and run this:
sudo dtruss -p PID
(you will have to enter and administrator password)If the app is reading or writing or doing anything with the kernel (going out on the net etc), it will make tons of system calls and you will see them scrolling by. I would expect lots of reads and writes of one form or another.
You can stop it by hitting “control C” in the terminal.
I imagine it’s creating some gigantic index file or image file for tape and it takes a long time.
Once you’ve seen what happens on start up, try killing the “edit to tape” thing and see what happens. I expect it’s deleting a bunch of stuff.
Steve Modica
CTO, Small Tree Communications -
Im having a problem with Edit to Tape also……i dont know what my preset should be…..how can i fine out
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Make sure you have all your video tracks collapsed. If you have all your video on track 2 and nothing on track 1, FCP will want to render that even though it shouldn’t need rendering.
Cheers
John C
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