[Daneeta-loretta Jackson]

Very true. We’ve screened before by connecting projector straight to computer, and it looks beautiful.

Went for another test last night, and the projectionist fiddled around with the settings on the projector. We chose a “graphic” look, which, at first looked really dark until we changed contrast and brightness. It looks passable now. At least the skin tones look more natural.

Obviously, the sound is brilliant! Funnily enough, I’ve found that the regular cinema goer does not notice poor picture quality as much as the notice poor sound quality.

Going to make HDCAM for festival screenings and maybe a Blu-Ray. All of these formats, etc. are doing my head in. I long for the days when it was just film and prints. Sadly, those days are gone.

[Daneeta-loretta Jackson]

Conflicting info here. Is it safe to upgrade from 4.02 to 4.1.1 in the middle of projects? Or is it just major updrades that I should avoid?

[Daneeta-loretta Jackson]

Hi,

I checked the file size, and it is a whopping 205 mb. I’m a little confused by this as another project I’m working on has much, much longer sequences and more media, but it is only 20 mb. What would cause such a large file size? The difference between aforementioned project and the Evil Project is that the Evil Project has more effects and multiple audio and video tracks. Would this cause such a difference?

I should also mention that the Evil Project was originally created in an earlier version of FCP and then brought into the new version. But this was ages ago, and it seemed to work fine in the beginning but slowly degenerated.

In any case, here’s what I did:

I saved as to a new file and deleted any extraneous media, sequences and bins from the new project. This only brought it down to 201 mb, and it was still slow as molassas on a cold winter’s day.

I trimmed media in the media manager, and it was still massive.

In the end, I exported the sequence I was working on to a QT file, started a new project and imported the sequence in. This is only a workaround, though because the QT file comes in as one block.

If I cut and paste the bits from the Evil Project to a new project I’m assuming that they will be nested and could cause problems. Is there a way to “re-build” the sequence in a new project without having to export each individual clip and then import it into the new project then adding effects again?

Still working on it, but I have a feeling the problem is steming from file size. Any suggestions as to why the bloody thing is so big?

Hugs,

Daneeta