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Multiclip freezing video playback
Hi,
I’ve just set up a multi-clip in a new project I’m working on (live music dvd). I have 8 angles all of which are ProRes 422 (1920×1080) 25fps. All the feeds have audio with them together they are all synced by timecode. I Imported the footage (which is on an internal drive) into fcp and then made a sub-clip of each angle (length of the first song) then made a multi-clip syncing by timecode. I then dragged this into a timeline (changing the timeline to match footage format).
When I play back the multi-clip [9-up] everything works great for about 20 seconds then the video stutters a couple of times before freezing, the audio keeps going underneath as well as my playhead in the timeline. Is there anything I can do to stop this happening; or is it just too much for the computer. The machine I’m editing on has the following spec:
2×2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
12 GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4870 (512 MB)Any help or suggestions would be great!
Thanks
Rob
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3 Replies
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YOu need a fast hard drive RAID array to play back that many streams of video. 8-9 streams is quite a bit! You need something capable of 300+MB/s of sustained playback. Like the CalDigit HDOne, or MaxxDigital EVO HD or similar.
Shane
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thanks for the reply. Thought that could be problem have been doing some experimenting and will work if I only have 7 clips but it will freeze up on 8. So guess I will just do what I can with 7 angles and then look through the 8th angle afterwards.
thanks again
Rob
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Unfortunately,
Your response has very little help in it editing from these different capture devices into FCP 2 or 3 which Apple clearly claimed in their false sales pitch that “FCP 2 was a multi-cam editing for cutting video from multiple camera sources” (wikipedia)
Apple should have to reconcile these clearly false claims for all of us that have spent many many hours trying to get a program whose maker said their program could “fix” these format issues, but in truth offered no explanation except hour long rendering process’s for short clips regardless of your machines speed (Mac Pro 64 gig 3.2 8 processor). If we are going to continue paying these prices for these programs, WE have to demand better updates, programs, and explanations from the corporations that make these annoying but necessary products on how to solve these problems without an expensive work around.
Figure it out Apple, and FIX IT FOR FREE. Then you won’t have a lawsuit on your hands.
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