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Soundtrack Pro problem out of FCP
I have posted this in the Apple Soundtrack Forum but it is a bit quiet so please forgive me for asking in here:
I am a experienced Final Cut Pro editor trying to take a mix into Soundtrack Pro for the first time and am not getting very far. I can only play the timeline for a few seconds or double click a clip to open it before it gives me the spinning ball of misery and Force Quit reports STP to be ‘not responding’.
In FCP I am sending a 40 second sequence (SD – PAL ProRes) to a multiclip project and as soon as STP opens it is slow, jitterry and unresponsive, until it gives up.
My media is on a GRAID FW800 2TB (less than half full) and I am saving my STP project to this capture scratch. I am running a MacPro 2×2.8 Quad Intel with 8GB RAM on OSX 10.5.6 with all latest Pro App updates installed.
I have fixed permissions on my system drive but beyond this I have no experience of STP to know what other fixes to try. Any input would be greatly appreciated
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After throwing a few show mixes at STP I went back to ProTools.
It works great for some things, but the larger the project the more unstable, volatile, and mind numbing it becomes.Try this, as it worked for me to get around a few hang ups I experienced:
First off, once the project opens, don’t do anything until STP had written all the waveform overlays. This can take up to 10min depending on the amount of audio you sent, and wether it is all the proper format/sample. If you don’t do this, STP can hang and crash as you are experiencing.
If this doesn’t cure your ailments, once the project opens, and all the waveform overlays have been written, do a ‘save as’ and select ‘collect audio files’ and ‘collect video file’ and save it to your media drive.
Colin McQuillan
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Thanks for that. I’ll try that. I don’t really feel that I’m exactly pushing it with 8 channels of 48k audio in 40 second sequence. Hopefully this’ll sort it . Maybe there is a rogue corrupt file or something.
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I encountered a similar problem (granted my project was much larger) when “sending” a multi-track project to Soundtrack Pro from FCP. It would consistently crash so I gave up on that method.
I ended up cutting the project in half and sending OMF files. But Soundtrack Pro has still turned out to be incredibly problematic for me (I too, am an experienced editor). I sent out the OMF’s with levels, crossfades and pans and many times these were inaccurate or just plain messed up. I still have a crash from time to time and even though I religiously save every ten minutes or so, I seem to be losing a lot of non-retrievable info/ work when I boot it back up. In my (admittingly limited) experience, this is a powerful program with some serious bugs/issues. What I feel should have taking me no longer than a few days to do has taken me longer than a week. Not very pleased right now. Hope you figure your issue out, maybe exporting OMF’s with a small project like yours will be the way to go.Keith
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