[Al Sinclair]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the response!

As it happens, I’ve eventually worked my way round to a similar solution… Instead of the Transform effect I went for Basic 3D, and set the Distance To Image to -25.

This might actually be a better solution in the end – as the Basic 3D effect is listed as an “Accelerate Effect”, it should render faster than the Transform one, yes? It does seem a bit faster after a bit of tinkering.

Adobe should really allow native scaling within the Motion tab… That would be a more elegant solution!

Thanks again for your response,

Al

[Al Sinclair]

Actually, yes!

Just yesterday I came across this thread:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1563017

These steps seem to have fixed everything – I’ve been crash-free for nearly a full day!

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1) Go into Preferences… Audio… and UNCHECK the box next to “Maintain pitch while shuttling.”

[this is a new feature in PrCC2014 that is processor intensive, causes audio dropouts, and is a major player in why the playback suffers]

2) Go into your sequences settings for each sequence you have for DSLR footage and change the Editing Mode preset to “CUSTOM”

3) Next scroll down to Video Previews and change the preview file format to “QuickTime” and the codec to “Animation.”

4) Uncheck the box next to “Composite in Linear Color (requires GPU acceleration or max render quality).

[this is another new feature that is also processor intensive & is also a key suspect to the problem]

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Hoping for a “proper” fix some time soon though.

Let us know how you get on…

Cheers

Al

[Al Sinclair]

Hi there,

I’ve been experiencing exactly the same issue since I upgraded to 2014…

A new project will be OK for a little while, then suddenly the footage will start to catch and freeze, and eventually it’ll lock up – needing a force quit.

It seems that once this starts to happen on a project it’s pretty much doomed. 5-10mins of work, then force quit each time.

Has anyone found a solution?

Cheers,

Al

[Al Sinclair]

Yup, that’s definitely one option… And it’s our fallback really. Or Twixtor in FCP, but that’s a bit slow and rendery for my liking.

The director really wants to get that human feel in the motion.

It’s something I’ve been talking myself in and out of for the last couple of weeks.

[Al Sinclair]

Thanks for all the responses…

It’s sounding pretty likely that we can achieve what we’re after. My next question is this:

What would you think is the most effective way of achieving this? …remembering that we don’t want to lose quality from the original ProRes 4444…

In my head I’ve been thinking “scrub in FCP, capture in FCP” – using 2x capture units. Maybe there’s a different way? Is there any other software that’ll scrub smoothly and offer 4444 output?

I’ve only just thought of that, so will go do some research.

Thanks again everyone!

[Al Sinclair]

Ah yes – I’m with you.

That’s the kind of worry I had. But encouraging that you’ve had success before with a different setup.

[Al Sinclair]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your response…

We’d be scrubbing on one machine and capturing “now” on the other machine. So not scrubbing and recording on one machine at the same time.

[Al Sinclair]

Hey Craig,

Thanks for responding!

Did they accept Uncompressed/ProRes Quicktimes? Our producer out there is suggesting a TIFF/DPX sequence!

Thanks again,

Al

[Al Sinclair]

Hi Craig,

Sorry to reopen an ancient post, but I’m having the same problem finding out delivery spec for India…

Do you still have the information to hand?

Many thanks in advance!

Al

[Al Sinclair]

Just a thought, but you could just dump all of your clips into a timeline… Just drag your folder(s) into a sequence and shuttle through it.

I do this all the time for browsing clips.

Cheers,

Al