Alex Lee
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Thanks for the replies.
The thought of unplugging the keyboards had crossed my mind.
However a couple of the macs are mac book pros, which as I’m sure you’re aware have a built in keyboard.
I’ve found a solution to the problem if anyone else is interested. There’s a piece of software called plainview – https://www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview which can display fullscreen images with a kiosk mode that locks out all user input unless a specif key combination is entered.
Thanks for the thoughts.
Alex
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Hi Micheal
You’ll find the undo function will only go back a certain amount of levels which is dependant on how many levels you’ve set it to within the user preferences.
It’s set to 20 or 10 (I can’t recall of the top of my head) by default. So unless you’ve changed this it’s unlikey you’ll be able to go back far enough to correct your unwanted changes.
I’d recommend going through the autosaves until you find the correct one and copy the needed media/edits to the timeline of your most recent version.
I’d also recommend not setting the autosave levels too high as this will use up more of your available system memory.
Regards
Alex
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Edit – Although I’m curious if this has an effect on CPU and disk performance.
Whilst recently working on a project I’d exported several reference Quicktimes comprised of several tapes worth of footage with dozens of TC breaks in each. Mainly so I could work with one multclip which would minimize the possibility of sync errors further down the line. This process was then repeated for the 5 additional cameras.
If the non self contained movie file has to reference the original individual items of media that make up the source of the file. Then surely there’s additional processing power involved here?
And as you know if you’ve used multiclips in FCP, you need as a fair amount of the systems resources to stream at a decent playback quality.
Does anyone know of any information regarding this?
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Alex
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Making a non self contained, or reference movie will work fine.
The file size will be smaller & the exports for each angle will be quicker.
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