Andrew Gurney
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Hi Jim,
Yeah the Pro Res proxy looks great, I don’t think anyone outside of the online editor would even notice the quality difference between the codecs.
We are doing a 26 episode series so I was reluctant of doing any sort of transcoding due to space/time issues, but the difference working with the system is night and day so certainly worth it.
Hopefully it works out for you.
andrew
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I’m currently working on a 7 camera series with XDCAM EX footage. We had significant problems with System Crashes on all 4 of our systems using FCP 7.
Our solution was to create offline versions of all of our footage using the Apple ProRes 422 Proxy codec.
If you can afford the hard drive space I would recommend doing that. It’s a fairly straight forward process of simply media managing the Source Folder and recompressing with the new codec. Then you just reconnect your source folder to the new files. Even our multi-clips were updated correctly, it was almost too easy. I haven’t had a system crash since we did this 3 weeks ago.
Took a full day to do 1 TB of footage and it required another TB of hard drive space for the proxies, so we usually do an Episode over the weekend.
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I’ve run into similar problems with big multiclip projects – over 250 mb. We’ve never been able to figure out why but when working with multiclips, Final Cut hides a bunch of data in the project file.
Our quick fix is to copy all of the necessary sequences and Bins into a new project and than save that as your new project thereby eliminating any hidden files and hopefully causing your project file to run smoother.
Hope this helps.
andrew
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Does it need to be captured as one 50 minute clip? Why not capture it as a series of smaller clips?
I would agree with Zane though, an error message like that normally has to do with trying to capture to a Fat32 drive
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Create your multi-clip as you did orignally. Assuming you had 3 video angles and 1 Audio Track you will have a multiclip with 4 windows.
In the viewer, click on the middle button (Next to the Scaling Properties) and make sure Video + Audio is checked.
Back in your multiclip, click on the window that holds your audio track. The Green and Blue Outline should now be around your audio clip.
Now click on the middle button again (Next to the Scaling Properties) and Check just Video.
Essentially this has locked your multiclip to your audio track so that whenever you switch video angles your audio will remain on your production audio.
Also because you have video clips and only one audio clip there are a couple of ways to do it. First way is to create a multiclip with all of your video angles and use as is. It works but because your multiclip has so many angles it can often be unmanageable. The second option is to create several multiclips all of which have the same audio track but where each multiclip has a different set of video clips. It may seem redundent to have so have some many copies of your audio but I find that it is a easier workflow
If you wanted to merge your audio you would need to do it before you create the multiclip but you would still be required to lock your audio as outlined above.
Hope this helps, it’s also explained pretty well in Final Cut Manual
andrew
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When the OMF export box pops up at the beginning you have the option of adding handles to your OMF. If you just want the use media make sure 0 seconds is selected. It’s always good to at least have a couple of seconds of handles though.
The maximum file size for OMF is 2gb which is kind of annoying but there are 2 works arounds.
1. Mute all of your tracks except Track 1 and export. Then repeat for Track 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. You’ll have multiple .OMF Tracks but it’s still your best option.
2. The other option is to export your OMFs in chunks ie The First 20 minutes, the second 20 minutes etc. As long you keep the sections of audio in the right place on your timeline they should match up in your Audio Edit.
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In User Preferences under the general tab make sure your Real-Time Audio Mixing is set to something higher than 12 tracks. When it is you won’t have to render and this should eliminate rendering as a possible problem.
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No, you won’t want to uncheck the audio box as that means you’ll just capture Video.
What version of Final Cut are you using?
Do you have any other options in the audio section, like input channels, or input levels?
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Alternatively. In the log and capture window under the clip settings tab, uncheck the Preview Box and that should mute your incoming audio.
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Try collapsing and uncollapsing your multiclips. I often have this problem and this usually resets them – although this would be the equivalent of trashing your render files which was already suggested. Also make sure that you do have in fact have multiclip playback selected. I believe the short cut for it is one that could be accidentally pressed quite easily.