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Total Panic Attack
Trying to output a 45 min. sequence in FCP 5.1.2 Have a Dual 1.25 GHZ G4 with 768 MB RAM and a Blackmagic card and a terrabyte of storage. This setup has worked well in the past, though this is the first time I’ve tried outputting in 5.1.2. Doing an insert edit on a black and coded tape (though I also tried assemble edits). I’ve searched and I think I’ve followed all the suggestions I found on this forum.
The problem I’m having is dropped frames. Sounds simple enough, trash prefs, repair permissions, pram, create a new user, no good. Dropped frames happen at random places. What I’m noticing is that if I copy all of the items in the sequence into another project and save, the project file size is about 12 Megs. After each dropped frame message, the project size increases. When I first had this problem yesterday, I noticed because the project file ballooned to 98 Megs!
I have about 6 different versions of this sequence that I need to put to a digi beta tape and in the last 16 hours I’ve only outputed one successfully. I thought about recaputing all the media but that’s not an option for logisitical reasons. Can anyone give me a suggestion that I haven’t already tried? I’m sure I’ve forgotten some of the things I’ve done… I tried to restart holding the shift key down but it wouldn’t restart, it never got to the blue screen, just hung on the gray screen right before it
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11 Replies
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Hi Kurt,
did you start your project in 5.1.2 from the off? If not, have you updated your project to 5.1.2 from your earlier version? If you have to do the latter, make a duplicate of the original, earlier version project in case you have to re-install your earlier version. You can’t open a project which has been created in 5.1.2 in say, V.5.
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Yeah, the assistant editor updated one system and so we all had to update in order to use projects created/modified in 5.1.2… in the middle of the project. He didn’t realize the ripple down effect… Forgot to mention that! It is 4:30 in the morning, after all! LOL…
Kurt
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Hi Kurt,
Have you tried exporting your project / timeline to a Quick Time movie, (selfcontained, current settings),
and then import that file back to FCP.
This way (instead of having all those video & audio tracks) it is much less stressfull for the machine, and it should output it
without dropped frames.Cheers
Mick
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Also, try nesting the sequence and cut that into a new sequence, beware though; if you find you need to apply any filters to the nested sequence, it will unrender any filters below on that clip. A quicktime movie will not suffer the same fate, it just means you have to go through the flattened movie adding edits; not as much of a pain…
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Also mixdown your audio tracks before exporting.
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Copy that, did a mixdown. Exporting the video is taking forever. On the order of hours and I hope to find another way around, esp. since I have to do 6 different versions. It’s only when outputting that these problems arise… 😉
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Usually mixing down the audio has worked for me without exporting video and such.
pxlmvr
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Is everything rendered including ‘full’ rt effects? If everything is rendered, exports should go pretty quick. If everything is not rendered, then the export will take a while as it is rendering the unrendered parts.
Check your sequence > render all and sequence > render selection menus and make sure all the options are checked, especially ‘full’ then hit option-r (render all).
Jeremy
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Thanks for the answers. Tried all of the above. I think today I’m going to physically add more ram. 768 was too little anyway but maybe for 5.1.2 its too too little. If I can limp through putting this show out I’ll then reinstall FCP. Does anyone know then best order to install FCP, Quicktime, etc? Thanks, Kurt.
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You should have your system up to date (os, QT, etc.) then install all of your pro apps.
Jeremy
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