Asher Castillo
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Gotcha. Yeah, I’d recommend letting the smoothcam operate in the background or waiting to work with it on your ‘final pass’. I usually edit, get picture ‘locked’, send to color to grade, apply effects / filters, etc. If you wait to apply these filters during a final pass / locked picture scenario, you may consider media managing your timeline to trim unused media, helping with file size and render times. This will also trim your clips to shorter legnths which will be faster processing with smoothcam as Jerry mentioned.
ashercastillo | principal creative
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Jerry makes a great point on the trimmed clip tip. Smooth cam does render in the background, so I’d place that filter and then continue down the timeline. What are your system specs and what filters / adjustments do you seem to run into the most?
ashercastillo | principal creative
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what is your sequence playback video quality settings at? Also how are you exporting this from FCP?
ashercastillo | principal creative
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The smoothcam was applied first by another editor, then I applied the color correction filters. I think ‘smoothcam’ render file may have still had some issues. I trashed it and now reapplying the smoothcam filter.
ashercastillo | principal creative
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I would suggest 4 GB ram at a minimum. Processor speed will have more effect on your rendering times, I do agree with the shared work system idea, essentially you want to have an additional system to work off of while you compress, render, etc. I don’t see how FCP will have issues for a larger project.
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Might also try clearing render files via render manager.
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Vicky,
You need to change your image settings from 300 dpi to 72 dpi, also make sure the image demensions are around 1500-1600 pixels wide.
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Jim,
I was having some issues capturing, but after testing, it ended up being an issue with the camera. What are you loading from?
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I think I’m going to run some tests, and see what photo JPEG looks like. I know several people that use JPEG 2000 for archival. I think if I can find a format that is universal that looks good and won’t be an incompatible codec in a few years.
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Rafael & Russ, thanks for your input. It has been most helpul. The files will be for HD (1920×1080) stock footage downloads. I have been exploring the JPEG 2000 on recomendation from an experienced Avid editor, ideally the file needs to be universal enough that a FCP or Avid, or whatever the NLE, could download the clip and convert it to their prefered “flavor”. 2000 seems promising thus far specifically with size and the qaulity of converted files compared to other universal’ codecs.