[Chris Stone]

Thanks David and Adam – everything else I’ve done as I’ve should and it does seem clear that David is right – it looks like I’m just going to have to suck it up and do a clean install of my system. I’ll implement that and let you know what difference it makes.

Very much appreciate your help.

Chris

[Chris Stone]

Hi Adam,

thanks for the response. Can you expand on what you mean about HDV not being a good format to edit in? I’ve been editing for about 8 years, and for a large chunk of that time I was editing HDV footage on a daily basis, in HDV PAL sequences. Perhaps not so much now, but between 2005-2009 HDV was the standard source for a lot of my jobs, largely coming off Sony Z1s. Working in HDV PAL sequences I’ve never had to render the naked footage at all. Can you expand your point a bit?

Also, I created a very similar sequence to the one I’m working on now about 18 months ago, with a less powerful macbook, using HDV and the “Bad TV” filter – it took a little while to render (maybe a couple of hours max). 26 hours seems to be the indicator of a fault somewhere along the line – obviously I’m doing something wrong somewhere.

Be interested to know what you or anyone else thinks about this?

Thanks,
Chris

[Chris Stone]

Hi David, thanks for your reply. I’ve applied the filters across all the clips, and then key framed the variables at the transition points. Even across all the clips, I’d be very surprised if Bad TV requires a 26hour render as par for the course! I’ll try the suggestion you made re copying and pasting, though to clarify I mean that the 26 hours is for rendering, never mind export.

Thanks for the tip re the correct way to prepare for lion. When I’ve got through this debacle I’ll take a look and implement that properly.

Cheers,
Chris