[Aaron Zander]

sorry missed this, dang cow forums hiding posts from me.

They were quicktimes already. the tiff files them sleves have never actually touched this timeline. I made image sequences out of them via QT and moved on to pro res. and still had my issues

[Aaron Zander]

[walter biscardi] “What you want to do is retain the frame size, but make the file sizes smaller so FCP can work with them.
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We are talking thousands and thousands of images. This is all high speed photography rangin from 100-500 fps. the shortest clip is only 400 frames, but the longest is nearly 3000.

ontop of this, wouldn’t going to pro res have handled this?

[Aaron Zander]

JUST TO CLEAR THIS UP, THIS HAPPENED WITH EVERY FORMAT I’VE TRIED, not just pro res.

so once again

dimensions are 1504×1128

its not the drives, or the formats I think Its just the ram.

[Aaron Zander]

[David Roth Weiss] “No worry! And for the record, I was just yanking your chain. Trust me, I understand that money doesn’t grow on trees these days.
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it used to? I know I’m young but i dont recall my mom ever recounting any tales of going to the money tree as a kid?

[Aaron Zander]

I tried the h.264’s just as sized with no key-framing, but it happened with prores. Doesn’t have ANY issues in the clip playback window. And yes I would love more ram. If you would like to donate some, i will happily take it, or If you would like sony to finally be happy with the cut of a corporate video I am working on, and pay my boss the LARGE sum of money on delivery, that works too. but for now, 2 gigs and my girly man machine is how it shall stay (Going to grab another 4-8 gigs as an early xmas gift for my self)

The tiffs aren’t anything bigger than I have worked with before. AND i switched to my sata drives and no difference at all. Id stay on them If i wasn’t dragging this project around to 2 locations.

-sorry this came off a bit harsh, Thanks for the insight. but it’s already been tried. and according to the kona tester, My average read speed on my INTERNAL sata drives are 53.7mb/s for one of those tiny clips

[Aaron Zander]

[Uli Plank] “When you’re saying “downrezed” are you talking about the ProRes codec only or about image size too? If the are truly gigantic, FCP won’t handle them. It’s limited to 2K, AFAIK, and you’ll need ore RAM even for that.

Regards,

Uli “

No they aren’t really huge, they are only 1504×1128

and rendered out super low res proxie h.264’s (like 45 megs for some of the big ones) and STILL playback issues. and i tossed these onto my internal sata drives. So now I am just out of ideas

[Aaron Zander]

oh, by the way, kind of a letter to apple:

it took me 30 min to track down how to do this via the help menu. if you go to the general help field, its not listed/mentioned.talked about in the ENTIRE basic help menu, and only after looking through every search result for p2 did i discover I had to go to a seperate help pdf, and only after searching through close to 100 links did I GIVE UP and look at the menus again and found ‘log and transfer’ which I looked at and thought to my self ‘this is new’ and clicked it.

Also didn’t see this listed ANY WHERE on the apple site of new changes.

[Aaron Zander]

Thanks guys, I actually hit that point today. High speed High res 22bit images. fcp wont play the footage back. But there’s no render bar so I am a bit confused.

[Aaron Zander]

mocha from imagineersystems also works very well (look to the left there should be a discount add for it)

[Aaron Zander]

More info please.

Have you tried switching input, what input are you using, what are you going from etc.