Brad Steiner
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That is great advice. Particularly safety. Even though I’m planning for a relatively small pool, safety should always be a concern. I’m usually overly safe when it comes to locations, but hadn’t given pools any extra consideration.
Thanks.
BrAd
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Oh, I’ll be using DVDSP as long as I can.
But say I go to another company where they don’t have or (more likely) can’t get DVDSP, and won’t pay for Scenarist (and the training needed)…
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I completely agree with FCP sitting on an edit machine. We’ve got (god forbid) PCs to do email, surf the web, and “produce” with. Our Edit suites have FCP, After Effects, Photoshop, MPEG Steamclip. I know I’m forgetting something, but you know what I mean.
But for all that, crashing. 3 different suites, all during thumbnail loading of bins or sequences. Project sizes range from small to about 50Mg. XDCAM.
Very few crashes if you turn off thumbs everywhere, but then hell, I should go back to editing tape to tape if I just want to see a list of what shots I have.
No crashes if in a project entirely of ProRes.But I want to emphasize. This is a NEW problem. We went years without these problems, so please don’t fault the workflow or format choice.
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It is most definitively worse with Snow. We were doing work for YEARS with XDCAM timelines, and only recently has it become a nightmare.
Sigh.
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I think it IS very much an XDCAM problem. It’s just not universal, so someone can always say “I’ve been using bla bla bla for years and haven’t had a single problem…”
I don’t think it’s a size of project issue so much as a number of thumbnails. larger projects have more bins, more sequences, more for FCP to sample and choke on.
Look up the threads for years back. My question is, of all those before who’ve noticed this, have they found a fix? Has anyone heard from Apple?
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1003922
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1011917
https://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9545404#9545404
even more threads talking about the problem.
Far as I can tell, some date back to 2008. I’ve been suffering through the crashes for a few months now, when I went years without. We were an early adopter of the XDCAM HD (350). things have been fine till recently. That’s what is so frustrating. People can say that we’ve apparently made a bad call going with the format. But almost 3 years of great results, only now to have issues is killing me.
The problem isn’t isolated to just one or two people, but it’s not consistent for all users. Seems MacPro boxes are more susceptible. And some are reporting that mixing formats with XDCAM make is worse, or perhaps smoothcam on an XDCam clip.
People have done complete re-installs with no success. I’ve got the same issue across 3 edit suites, some on projects connected to a SAN, others projects with internal storage. One box with a Kona, another without any card at all.
Going all prores for the hundreds upon hundreds of projects is not an option for a system that has been fine, and should work. Turning off thumbnails is not an option for those editing using visuals.
I’m interested in hearing from SOMEONE who has some definitive information. Such as they spoke with APPLE. Or they found a fix that worked for them. If I hear that it’s just my fault for not running disk warrior….
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https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1003922
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1011917
It seems to me to be the same issue with me. xdcam might be the common thing. I’ve had the crashes described on computers both on and off UPS. Lots of xdcam thumbnails seem to do it… this is just the most recent thread to examine the issue. Wish to God there was a cure.
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I’d just tried the fix that was in the link. Still problems.
I did trash the cache files, and set them to the system drive. They have been there before, but I’d moved them around some to trouble shoot.
I opened the project on another machine… And it crashed again after me really tasking it to load thumbnails. So I think that tells me that it’s a project problem, not a box problem. Unless both boxes have the same problem…
I can see how copying a sequence into a new sequence might bring back the waveforms I seem to be missing on older projects, but I’m not sure this will fix the thumbnail crashing. the project crashes when loading thumbnails, either in sequences, OR in bins.
Is there something I”m missing in FCP where it has a limit to the number of thumbs it will cache? RAM?
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I’ve done this exact thing with a teleprompter as they mentioned above. Just make sure you use a black background on the shot that is feeding the teleprompter. Maybe even tweek the settings on the teleprompter monitor. Bright video reflected on the mirror can effect your main shot. Sometimes it can look washed out.
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have you considered something simpler?
but a light on a stand or pole, and have someone literally hold it parallel with the ground, then lift it up to be perpendicular? Gives the raising arc look to the light. It could be made to be semi-repeatable and takes only one extra person. Combine it with a dimmer change inside the room to bring up the total level too.
Just a thought.
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