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Very Slow Performance
Hello All,
I have been getting very slow and laggy performance, but just recently. I am using Flip Ultra HD footage converted to .mov with H.264. Also I am running on a 13″ MBP 2.26 2GB ram and using a USB 7200rpm HDD. I can’t explain this problem fully so I made a quick screen recording with all of my prefs being shown and what the problem looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlZFDFeMik
Thanks for any help,
Kelton
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9 Replies
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Hi Kelton,
H264 is not an editing codec and trying to edit it in FC will gives you a lot of headaches.
The best option is to convert your footage to Prores or any other Intraframe codec.
Cheers,
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“Also I am running on a 13″ MBP 2.26 2GB ram and using a USB 7200rpm HDD”
USB drives are NOT suitable for video work. They work in bursts of data and video needs constant data.
Use FireWire.
Hindsight is always 1080p
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I am very aware that USB is horrid with video work, however I do not have the cash, being a high school video editor, to pick one up right now. Although I should be using firewire, I have not been for a while. Yet this is much worse than previous projects with USB.
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Yes I am well aware of that, but I have come much to far to restart other projects that are using this codec. In the future I will use ProRes, however would final cut be this bad with that format, it has held up in other projects or did it decide that now it would quit out on me?
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You are editing with a very processor intensive codec, and with a hard drive that wasn’t designed for video work…and you wonder why things are slow? If you want optimal performance, then you need to use hardware and codecs that enable that. If you don’t, and just continue to use what you have, then yes, you have to deal with the performance issues.
And yes, H.264 is a bear to edit. Short projects, maybe not, but longer ones…using USB drives (are firewire drives THAT much more expensive, really?)…yeah, you’ll have issues.
Shane
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All I am saying is that it had not happened before, and I am aware that USB is an issue, but yes at the point I don’t wish to go out and buy a FireWire drive because I had gotten this HDD free, for now I’m just going to run off of my internal then put the old projects and media on that drive. Thanks all for the help and if any one could reccomend a 320+ GB firewire 800 HDD that would be great. (I do want to pick up the iPad though hahaha).
Thank you
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As hard drives fill up with data, their performance drops. So if you use this one drive, and keep adding more and more footage, it will slow down. keeping it at 80% full is optimal, because after than performance drops fast. I keep mine at 10%, because they are fast enough to deal with it…most of the time.
[Kelton Corc] ” if any one could reccomend a 320+ GB firewire 800 HDD that would be great. “
Go to https://www.otherworldcomputing.com and look at their Mercury Elite line. Good drives at a low cost. I would recommend the Caldigit line, but they are out of your range.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
“I’m just going to run off of my internal”
Number one rule in video editing NEVER edit from your system drive. It has enough to do as it is.
Hindsight is always 1080p
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I’m sure you can come up with $20 for a new firewire hard drive enclosure. Grab a screwdriver and make the swap, or drop another $70 to put a faster 1TB drive in there. Since you’re in high school, I’m sure it being firewire 400 will be fine
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