[Charles Mouyat]

Hi Robert,
Honestly it is a shit. I have sped things up considerably, but I’m still very very unimpressed with the result. IF ONLY, it had been constructed in Premier or some other more robust program. Key things I adjusted were an ensurance of square pixels in my Targa images supers and overlays that were previously set to 1440×1080, now set to 1920×1080 (native). All video components were changes from H264 encoding to Apple Prores 422 (normal, not high quality). Also, for voodoo’s sake, I changed all resolutions of stills from 300 to 72 (without resampling, of course), and ensured all images were no larger than 3,600 pixels wide (just to be sure).

Sequence settings, I changed rendering from YUV to always render RGB

ANother key thin I changed in my Sequence> render settings> was to render at “half” resolution and “draft” while building and tweaking….

RT is now set to safe for playback.

Finally, what I portions of my sequence that I could export easily (relatively) to Motion, I did — which at least allows for real time review of the most mundane parts of my sequence.

FInal Cut is not an ideal tool. I am very unhappy to be running all this on a 12 core with 16gb of ram and have very little grunt to show for it. From what I have gathered FCP is in desperate need of an upgrade to 64bit. And considering I have a flagship macintosh computer, apple should ensure its OWN PRODUCT can utilise all that grunt.

GOod luck mate, all I have achieved is a lessening of my problem after a lot of stuffing around…. The steps definitely worked for me, but not so much as to make my life “satisfying”, but only so much as to prevent me having to slash my wrists! I’m still somewhat depressed!

I’ve got other issues, my 12 core just seems to want to zone out and go into beachball mode every other breath it takes, and not no apparent reason. When I have time I am going to find a solution for that.

Best luck,
Charles

Jack of all trades, master of a few.

[Charles Mouyat]

Thanks Alan… I appreciate your insight, and have actioned much of your advice.

Best regards,
Charles

Jack of all trades, master of a few.

[Charles Mouyat]

Hi Keith,
when you talk 72ppi, are you talking resampling the image by downing res, or just changing from 300ppi to 72ppi without resampling? And does “full raster size” mean 1920×1080?

With the workflow, are you suggesting by “rendering out a reference file” for compressor, rather than rendering in the sequence timeline??

I need to do some homework about qmaster, obviously. Any more insight here would be deeply appreciated…

Thanks in advance,
C.

Jack of all trades, master of a few.

[Charles Mouyat]

Hi Alan,
thanks. To answer your question, I did not build it myself. I contracted the work out to a very self-satisfied hack. I am left to pickup the pieces and deal with the legacy of what they started, and finish what the client has signed off on.

SO, you think if I push the sequence up to the higher res I may have a more “native” rendering capacity?….

I’ll try anything at this point. I just don’t understand why it takes SO LONG to render what seems like very basic manipulation (notwithstanding the size of my image files, which I still consider to be modestly sized considering the pathetic render times). I’d appreciate any insight to codecs and sequence settings that will mitigate my problem.

Thanks again, I look forward to your response.

C.

Jack of all trades, master of a few.

[Charles Mouyat]

Hi Jerry,
thanks for responding.

to answer:
fame size: 1440 x 1080
Compressor settings: HDV1080p25
Quality:100
Video Processing: Always render in RGB
Motion Quality : Normal
Render control: Filters on
Frame blending on
frame rate: 100%
resolutions: 100%
codec: same as sequence

Yes the raid flashes, but so slowly, as to remain inactive for long periods of time (what seems like minutes on end) instead of flashing with constant activity, as one would expect.

I will try rescaling, but am concerned that each frame will require scaling and keyframe readjustment when the resolution is brought down. I have seven of these things built, and this is a very time consuming task considering the simplicity of my needs.

Jack of all trades, master of a few.

[Charles Mouyat]

Much appreciated!

May a thousand blessings be your friends!

Woof!

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