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Optical Flow hanging machine
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Nope, I deleted the cache in hopes it would stop.
I’m a the point where when the Library opens I click on the task option and stop all processes.
It seems to stop and allows me to move forward but when I quit the app hangs.
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Sounds exactly the same as my experience with this project. I think the proxy workflow with optical flow has a bug when being taken back to original media which corrupts the library file and the project.
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Add this to the huge issues I am having with Consolidate kinda puts me in the hate column for FCPX.
I’ve never ran into this issues in the past when it came down to moving Libraries before.
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Totally the same. Switch the project from proxy to original media, a rendering bar appears in tasks which starts, but a process appears for optical flow analysis. This stays at 0% even if I leave the project open overnight. I’ve trashed preferences, deleted cache, deleted analysis files for the whole library, updated fcpx to most recent version, uninstalled and re-installed and it still happens with this library. Starting fresh doesn’t help as this is a 12 min short for a huge corporate client that has been worked on for 6 months.
Macpro2013, 6 core, 64GB, D700, media on gtech studio xl via thunderbolt 2. Media is mixed red helium 8K, red dragon 6k, a7s h264, a7s timelapse avi and dji drone and all of this is stored on the t2 raid. Plenty of spare space – 28TB. All audio files are either mp3, was or embedded with the red files. Optical flow was used on the proxy files of the dji footage only, not the red raw. Project is set at 3840×2160 25p.
I’ve worked on fcpx for years and love it – it has its faults but I really want to find the answer as if it re-occurs it means I will have to manually create 6 and 8K prores 4444 files before creating the library and abandon the proxy workflow…lots of encode time and double size storage space required. I’ve seen a few people on YouTube finding issues with optical flow and their approaches have made no difference. Only thing I haven’t done is export an extended xml and rebuild the project inside a new library….
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Should also add, fcpx becomes completely unresponsive and crashes if I cancel the optical flow analysis.
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[Tom Sefton] “Only thing I haven’t done is export an extended xml and rebuild the project inside a new library….”
I would simply make a new library and drag and drop the Events from the old one in to a new one.
It may take a little while, but it would be worth it if things start to operate more efficiently.
I always use RCX to make Red proxies. I cut in regular “optimized’ mode in FCPX, and then relink to the R3D raw when I need them. It bypasses the Proxy switch in FCPX.
Jeremy
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That’s great experienced advice thank you jeremy. I’m guessing you export from redcine x Into a separate folder but use the same file name as the r3d to ensure easy re-linking?
I usually work on the r3d files so I hope that the optical flow issues are only linked to the proxy/original workflow in fcpx.
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Tom, what are your specs?
I’m running High Sierra on a MacPro 2013 D700/64GB.
FCPX 10.4.3 (tested on 10.4.2)Reason for asking is that my client took the project back and they are not having issues on their lowly iMac.
I have to see to believe it, I’m getting all this via text messaging.I found a topic in FCP.CO with similar issues with High Sierra but on a MacBookPro.
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Update:
A new twist to this project.
When the client said things worked on their end.
They failed to tell me that they didn’t hook up the other drives.
Part of my job was to move the Libary into a faster Thunderbolt 2 drive.
However, they have more files to deal with sitting in other USB3 drives.
Once they connected those drives, the issue reared its ugly head :p
So now I have them copy the files they need to that drive via finder, then run FCPX without the suspect drives online.
Crossing fingers that it’s not the files.
According to the client, the minute they started the Library, it started crashing similar to my results at my studio.
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Exactly the same, Mac Pro 2013 6 core, 64GB d700s. Media is all stored on a fast thunderbolt 2 raid
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http://www.pollenstudio.co.uk
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