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RT Slow warning with little effects is this normal? New to final cut
I am new to FCP. I cant test hardly any effect without having to render. Is this normal? What is the best codec to work with my machine? I use XDCAM Transfer to bring it into a FCP format, but have no control on the codec it uses ( it may be the most efficient form for use?) Below is my machine info and camera info. Its does not matter which format I shoot in, I get the same results??
I may be expecting to much from this computer.
Help Please
DonI have a MAC Pro
2x 2.66ghz dual core Xeon
13 GB Ram
4 Internal 500GB 7200 rpm 32/cache Drives (seagate)
Matrox MX02 mini MAX for HD monitoring
Snow Leopard
FCP 7.0.2 suiteCamera
Sony EX1 shooting in 1920×1080 30P and 1280×720 30P
35 mbps (have no choice to lower this) -
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RT Effects are controlled by the speed of your media array. What sort of speeds are you getting from the array?
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I dont even know what that is and how to check it? I am also new to Mac as well as FCP.
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I think what you are asking does not apply to my set up because my drives are not linked just 4 individual drives 5oo GB each 7200 rpm ans 32gb cache.
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Is there a piece of hardware I can install to speed it up for effects and overall speed
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Set your RT in “Unlimited” mode and change your sequence codec to Prores.
XDCAM is OK as an acquisition codec, but is to compressed for production, and incredibly slow to render. Export to XDCAM only if you have to deliver in that format.
Cheers,
rafael -
“my drives are not linked just 4 individual drive”
Leave one as your system drive and raid the other three together using disk utility. This will give you a raid drive that will perfume much better then a single drive.
Just remember that when you create the raid it will completely erase all data on the drives you are raiding together.
**Hindsight is always 1080p**
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You can download a free utility from AJA – System Test – which will measure your drive’s speed.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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What is an efficient editing Codec to convert my EX1 MP4 into? that would be efficient for my slower machine?
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will it work better if I buy (for example the G-Tech G-Raid) and use the E SATA port to a raid drive for efficient editing?or mortgage the house and buy a newer faster MAC? 🙂
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As Rafael mentioned ProRes is a good one.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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You don’t need buy nothing, neither convert any thing.
Just change your sequence codec to Prores.
Your HDs are fast enough.
rafael
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