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Larger than Normal Ref Movies Firewire vs Uncompressed…Any Ideas?
I am a big fan of Ref Movies for obvious reasons. Lately though on our FCP5 run on a brand new G5 I have noticed the following.
If I capture footage via firewire, edit, and then export a sequence as a reference movie the ref movie is instantly available. HOWEVER….
If I capture footage through my Kona capture card as uncompressed 8 bit or 10 bit, edit…then export a sequence as a ref movie it can take anywhere from 5 minutes up to 15+ minutes to export a Reference Movie.
AND the reference movie is huge! It’s not as big as a self contained movie but it is much bigger than I would expect it to be because a reference movie is really just a pointer file “Referencing” all the data captured. Shouldn’t it not matter how the footage is captured if it is just a true pointer file to the capture?
Does anyone have any ideas on why this happening?
-Nicholas Bierzonski
Editor/DVD Author/Java Boy
http://www.finalfocusvideo.com -
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[LandofNid] “Does anyone have any ideas on why this happening?”
If you’re applying filters and other things than have to be rendered, FCP has to render these as part of the export, even though you’re doing just a reference file. This will increase the file size of your reference movies.
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