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Need faster drives or video card
I’ve been a bit dissappointed in not being able to do more real time effects.
Can only play 6 audio tracks (with no filters on and sometime only 4 audio tracks when cross-fading into the other) Only 3-4 video tracks of
mini-dv footage, (with only minimal filters ie color correction, but little else) before I have to RENDER. I try turning on “SAFE RT” but that makes it worse. Thought my system was fairly “kick-ass” (sorry, but best way to explain it) When trying complex keyframed effects that single track won’t even
play so I can’t see what I’ve done and what keyframes need to be adjusted.Quad 2.5 G5 (11 months old)/ 16gig ram/ stock video card/ 2 X 500G G-tech firewire 800 drives, one daisy-chained into the other. Only 1 drive hooked into
G-5’s 800 port.D’s Video
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Man, it has to be something else, because I have a lesser G5 model (the Dual 2Ghz one), less RAM (3.5GB), a slightly better card (9800 Pro, but that doesn’t affect FCP) and the same drives for storage and I can get more than 12 audio channels to play back in RT, and easily 8-10 DV tracks, about 4 of DVCPRO HD.
Safe RT, Video Playback = dynamic, playback frame rate = full, Full quality record to tape.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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In your user preferences YOU define how many real time audio tracks your machine can play back. If you have it set to 6, that’s all you’ll get.
Even my old 300mhz G4 could get 12 or so. I usually set machines to around 14.
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Believe it or not, you have TOO much RAM. I have better performance on my G5 Dual 2.5 with 6 GB of RAM.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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What kind of maintenance you make to your computer? Do you use TechTools or DiskWarrior? Do you have your hard disks “journaled’? Normally when Fc works not too fine I make a good maintenance before trashing preferences or do any other think to FC. I keep as well only the main hard drive jounaled. And talking about big capacity disks, just to add that I’m more happy with my 200Gbs LaCie FireWire 400 than with the LaCie 300Gbs FireWire 800.
Salud,
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I’d try it with only one firewire drive hooked up at a time. If the footage is stored and being read off of both drives at once that could be creating a bottleneck on your firewire port.
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Thanks for the responses. Sorry Rafael, but I’m new to fcp. I use an Accom Affinity at my real job.
My fcp at home I have done 1 small training video and 3 weddings. I don’t have any maintenance
software like TechTools or Diskwarrior and have not erased anything yet. So I’ve got a lot of reading
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Thanks Shane & Bret. I’ll try those suggestions.
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