[Christoph Strothjohann]

“There’s a great (free!) generator available at http://www.lasserij.nl/fcp …I use it as standard now… ”

thanks a lot.
the plugin works perfect for my purpose!

[Christoph Strothjohann]

hi rafael
thanks for the quick response.
I´m looking for a way to do it without having to nest the sequence, so i can see the letterbox while i´m editing in my original timeline as well…

[Christoph Strothjohann]

thanx walter, mike, gary and all you others for the active discussion on this post and all your advice.

one thing upfront to walter. by labelling the post “final cut pro unusable for big projects?”
i didn´t want to state but rather ask (hence the “?”) if it the size of our projects is where our problems stem from. but english is not my mothertongue, so I´m sorry, if somebody finds it to provoking and was upset about it.

we talked to the production company and took your advive, walter, to order a raid.
i hope it will arrive on friday and we´ll copy our media to the drive over the weekend.
there was no money for top class fibre channel etc.
so we ordered a sonnet d800 with 8tb storage for ca 4500 dollars without VAT.
as soon as it´s up and running i will give feedback on this post on how it affects our working.

one question about “good” media management with raid: shall we put all media files on there (video, sound, render files) or would it be wiser to keep the sound files on a seperate internal sata drive?

journaling is of course turned off for all our media drives. so that is not where our problems come from.
no updates were made either since the main project was set up.

although the problems we encounter are similar to mike´s, we haven´t run into render issues.
just yesterday i rendered the widescreen effect, video and audio transitions on a 2hour sequence in one go without any problems.

so i will be back in a few days with a description on how our switch to the raid went.