Ben Holmes
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If you have a 3 hour render for a few clips in a DV timeline then you have done something terribly wrong. I suggest you spend some time reviewing the sections in the manual relating to effects.
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Marc
Have you used any automation to alter levels in this track, or applied any filters? Just checking. Otherwise, I would suggest you trash your renders for this sequence and see if that helps, or mixdown the audio.
Ben
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Bad software. Have a search below for the same issue. It’s just buggy, awful software. Sorry about that.
Ben
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Hi Scott
I would link you over to the RED user forum, but I can’t from here. You can find it via red.com. You will also get some good advice from reading existing posts on the COW RED Camera forum.
As a start, let me say that you can import using log and transfer into FCP, but for maximum quality and control you are still better off using RED rushes, RED Alert and RED Cine, all of which are supplied free from RED support.
Download some test R3D files from RedRelay.net and have a play with them. Familarise yourself with colour correcting RED rushes.
Have fun – the pictures are breathtaking…
Ben
(How many times did I type RED there?)
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Any computer monitor will work with a G5 – if it’s a DVI input, you won’t need to use a DVI-VGA lead.
Ben
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If you export using Compressor it has presets for DVDs – it’s pretty straightforward.
You can force a DVD to play either in 16:9 (which you edited in, so why not) or force to 4:3 letterbox. It’s under the disk options on DVDSP. As long as you don’t let it do pan and scan, which is actually a centre crop, you’re good.
Just use the presets (use the highest quality one unless you have over 90 mins video) and you will have no problems at all.
Ben
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Walter
Just checked a few old threads and saw your reply – only got back a couple of days ago. I had no idea you were so close, but I’d never have fitted it into out insane schedule (ie. 34 hours on air in 3 days). Be great to meet at NAB or IBC one of these days – you never know…
Ben
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[suzin daly] “where used to for a feauture film”
Really? A feature film? I would suggest employing a colourist before theatrical release…..
Uh.
Ben
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Wow. This thread reminds me why I NEVER use nests (unless I really really have to). I used to get errors and crashes caused by them too, especially whilst laying gfx over the top (a few fcp versions ago) – I also just don’t like not seeing where everything is… Usually nesting=lazy editing, except in the instances Walter mentions.
BTW Shane, as someone who spent a month in Athens in 2004 editing at the Olympics, and spends his life working on big sporting events (just getting my kit flightcased to go to Kentucky next month for the Ryder Cup) I can tell you those big long events are just one long slog. Seeing it on the TV is always more fun…
Night night.
Ben
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Ignacio
Is it Sunday? I’m so far into a project I didn’t notice….
What I mean by a disk array in this case is something like the many devices that you can see up and down your screen on the edge of this page on the Cow. An array is just a box with a bunch of drives in that gives you both more space and more SPEED. New technology like e-Sata (have a look at the G-Speed advertised right here) means you can connect a really fast set of drives (which means better render times, better scrubbing on the timeline, better realtime performance) that can store a lot of data for less per Gb (cos you’re only paying for one box and some cheaper internal drives) and also can store it SAFER. Drives like the G-Speed can run RAID 5, which means that if one drive fails, the array can re-build all the data from the others – so you never lose footage. You can’t connect drives like this to an iMac. The best you can do is connect FW800 drives, and get a big one – but you’ll miss out on the safety element.
This is a big topic – too big to go into now really. Point is your daisy-chained firewire drives are slowing down your firewire connection, and are unsafe as nothing is backed up – one drive failure could kill a project. I bet your spinning beachballs o’ death have a lot do with those drives…
As far as the iMac goes, your reseller is wrong: Take a look at these specs:
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs/
As an iMac has a proper (albeit laptop spec) graphics card, you’re ok. In fact, my iMac has a version of the graphics card shipped as stock in my Mac Pro.
Really, it’s connectivity and expansion that let down the iMac. Lovely machine though….
Ben
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