Multicam Editing DVCPRO 50

[Paul Harb]

CAnt seem to deal with 5 streams of DVCPro50 in multicam…..getting spinning beach ball….and crashing….

[Tony]

First thing to consider is what are you RT extreme settings set to?

Set it to dynamic and if need reduce the quality level to medium or low.

Five streams is alot for FCP to deal with so your problem is not unique.

I generally can do 2 streams of 8 bit uncompressed but have to set the RT extreme settings to dynamic.

Another item to consider what version of FCP are you using and what OS version are you using. Are there any known conflicts between the two or have you checked to verify you are using the proper versions?

Tony Salgado

[Dan Riley]

5 Streams at that data rate is pretty intense.
I do 4 camera multicam edits all the time with FCP
but I use DV level for the offline. They are solid.
No crashes. Doing one right now with the software versions
you listed. I uprez to 10 bit uncompressed after the edit is approved.
No problems there as well.
AVID editors do the same with multicam.
You are pushing the tech using full rez video for multicam streams.

Dan

[John Pale]

Not that I do it a lot, but I have worked on a long form project in DVC Pro 50 with 5 streams with no problems at all. My system specs are not as good as his, so he may be right to expect something is wrong.

FCP 5.1
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHZ
2.5 GB RAM
Huge Media Vault 400GB

[Paul Harb]

thks for the response, lowering the quality to medium helped….still a little chuggy…..which is weird cause Im getting high read and write on my drives……but it isnt crashing as much…..does seem a bit buggy thought….weird things seem to happen in multicam mode…..thks for the help though.

Paul

[Dan Riley]

Weird things do not happen on my system using multicam.
I’m in the middle of one right now. Been working on a 4
camera edit since a week ago Thursday. NOT A SINGLE CRASH.
This is 7, 60 min reels times 4 cameras over two days of shooting.
Hundreds of gigs of captured material. Then add in all the
b-roll and testimonials and you’ve got over 500 gigs of
DV level material for this edit.
Why is my system different than yours? I have no idea.
But as I said, I capture at DV level for my offline and multicam
then uprez to uncompressed and output to DigiBeta for the final show.
I’m using a G5 dual 2.5 gig with 4 MB ram.
I’m using a SATA RAID with 4, 400 gig drives,
connected via a Sonnet 4 + 4 card.
FCP 5.0.4. OS 10.5.4.

I wish I could help you have a more stable system
because I know how great that can be, and how lousy it is
when things are strange. But I’m at a loss at the moment.
I still think DVCPRO 50 is pushing it for 5 streams…
others think not. So there you go.

Dan

[Sean Oneil]

My studio has had a 9 camera (yes, nine) DVCProHD (yes, HD) multicam project going on for a while now. It’s a bit sluggish but it works just fine. Using an 8-disk SATA array stripped at RAID0 using Disk Utility.

Sean