Anton Silver
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Hi again,
Unfortunately nothing seems to work, I trashed the preferences file, nothing happened, I moved around files to another hard drive, same thing. I finally started to use my co-workers imac instead. With the same project, and suddenly… He has the same problem. Everything starts to drop frames, now he can’t open any project without dropping out frames. I really can’t isolate this problem, but It seems to start when you open this certain project, and then everything else opened after has the same problem. Something with these clips (Even If they are filmed with the same camera, and same format as I always use) that somehow screw things up with final cut… No one ever experienced similar problems? help :'( -
@Richard: Thank you soo much, in the future I’ll always compress with 422. Since this footage is going to be used for a (hopefully) upcoming film shown at cinemas here in Sweden I wanted to make sure that I got as much as I could out from the footage. Strangely enough the file size of the original clips handed to me on a firewire drive was around 1 terabyte, and when I compressed everything to ProRes 4444 the size was around 4 TB. Maybe 422 will handle it better, so, really good to know. (Took the 4444-option since it was set as default on the EOS Movie E1 plugin.
Maybe I’m bugging you with off topic stuff now, but what exactly does the “Final Cut Pro 7.0 Prefs” reset? Can’t seem to find any info online other then guides that where designed for Final cut pro 4-5.
It would be real nice to know why footage just suddenly stopped working like it always has, i’ll cross my fingers and hope that the reason for it, is buried within the preferences file!Also, thank you Rafael!
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Okay, Rafael, I’m sorry that I didn’t mention my compression of the footage earlier, it was because I didn’t think it should matter, and didn’t want to get into a discussion about something else, while, I’m in a hurry of getting projects done.
Maybe my choice of ProRes 4444 wasn’t the best, but it’s very important footage that’s going to be used for a full featured film so I wanted to get the most out of the material, maybe 422 would give me just as good result. So you think a diskwarrior operation would solve my problem? It’s worth a shoot, so I might give it a try… I’m also thinking about trying to delete the Final Cut preferences file, and see if it resets some setting that has been changed, but it worries me to try that too, if it screws something up.
Unfortunately (or fortunately for everyone else!) I seem to be pretty alone with this problem, but I guess that’s what I get from buying an imac 27″ instead of a Mac Pro 🙁 -
@Steve: I know, and even if the disk is 7200 rpm it’s not ideal, but sometimes you don’t have the luxury to work with eSATA or Firewire. It still dosn’t solve my problem. My 27″ iMac should not be struggling with playback when my macbook (and my co-worker’s iMac 27″ does an excellent job, just like my computer did, until recently.)
@Rafael: I’m not completely novice on the subject. My search for where the error is, is pretty simple. Since the footage seems to work everywhere else, and used to work for me, something must have happened with; 1# my machine or 2# my copy of Final cut pro 7. I haven’t installed anything lately so my guess would be that there’s something wrong with the configuration/settings in final cut, and that’s what I need help with. My iMac i7 is alot faster then my late october 2008 macbook pro so it should work better or at least to the same extent.
My footage in this problem is irrelevant, but just for the sake of this discussion it’s right now compressed with Apple Prores 4444, 23,98 fps 1920×1080. If the footage was stuttering on all machines and never worked with my system, I would not be surprised, but when it suddenly stops working, I’m starting to get afraid…
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Well, I’ve recompressed everything using the EOS E1 Movie Plugin, and as I said before it has been working for a very long time flawlessly, and still does on my coworkers (slower) imac, and my macbook pro. The clips shows that light gray-line above them (meaning playback without rendering is possible).
So something must be wrong with my final cut configuration, somehow?