David Eaks
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Could you give more details about the computer your having trouble with? Is it a clean OS install? What is the Mac’s model identifier, System specs, OS version, other major Applications installed (FCPX?), any connected hardware?
What makes it obvious that you dislike FCPX? To me, that statement screams “I haven’t given it a chance but people whose opinion I respect said they don’t like it, therefore I don’t either”. Maybe I’m missing something. I think it’s great, and has tons of potential. Have you really checked it out since its very poorly recieved release?
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Well, if you need a new system drive and you only install the OS and Apps on it, you could probably get by fine with a 128GB SSD. Crucial M4’s are only $99 at B&H (plus a $25 2.5″ to 3.5″ adapter), I have one on the way for my MBP and just installed a Samsung 830 in my Mac Pro. I only recently realized how little space I really need on my system drive and, at that moment, immediately ordered SSD’s. For a hundred bucks, anyone and everyone can and should have an SSD boot drive.
FWIW
Crucial M4 link-
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/768801-REG/Crucial_Technology_CT128M4SSD2_128GB_m4_SSD_2_5.htmlDon’t forget the-
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/798867-REG/Newer_Technology_NWTADPTADRV_AdaptaDrive_2_5_to_3_5.htmlA clean install of (and upgrading to) Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and FCS 3 with an SSD Boot Drive and your G-Tech RAID should be a pretty solid setup.
Update a clean install of Snow Leopard with the 10.6.7 combo updater-
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1361While your at it, get that G-RAID on eSATA, if it isn’t already-
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=798875&Q=&is=REG&A=detailsOf course you’ll want to check that there aren’t any compatibility issues with this stuff and your particular Mac Pro, before buying anything.
*EDIT
Jeremy’s got a good idea with baking in the filters on individual clips, that method has helpd me in the past.
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Did Youtube’s content match, match it to its owner?
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[priyank shandilya] “Any suggestions on improving the video quality of the disc would be greatly appreciated?”
Yes, Michael and I each had suggested that you export .mov of your project. You chose to test out the H.264 export and found sub par results.
I suggested bringing the .mov into Compressor, Michael suggested using Media Encoder. Either way, you would get good results. You did neither.
I told you it will take a long time, which would have been close to finishing by now. You went the quick route and are not happy with the results.
[priyank shandilya] “For now I am encoding another image of the same project on my mac again and then try to burn…”
Another image just like the one you said the quality was low and asked for advise on improving video quality? Not advised.
There is a reason we suggested the methods above, quality. You can rush out crappy videos if you want, just don’t tell anyone I helped you in the process of creating them. Everything you did was contrary to the advice given.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Sorry, I couldn’t resist 😉
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I’ll tell you right now, with your current setup this is going to take much longer than two hours. This or that burner might make a 5-10 minute difference, which is negligible in comparison to the many hours it will take to create the H.264 file. Where did you hear that encoding a 4 hour video for Blu-ray would take only 2 hours?
You are 13 hours in, it still says: H.264 2 seconds elapsed 0% complete and .ac3 13 hours elapsed 0% complete, time to cancel and reboot the computer. If it was working you should be like 50% complete.
You can try to burn from FCPX again or Export your timeline (cmd-e). Import the resulting .mov into compressor. Apply the Apple Blu-ray video and audio settings, apply Job action to create blu-ray disc and suck it up, it’s going to be a while. Like, tomorrow evening long while.
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Encoding h.264 for Blu-ray with standard Apple hardware is slowwww. IIRC a 2 hour video took my 2008 8-core Mac Pro about 16 hours. Your 4 hour video may take something like 30 hours. Also, if FCPX’s share to blu-ray is similar to “send to compressor” from FCP7, it might add even more time to the encode. At that rate, if I am remembering (guessing?) correctly, you should be ~25% complete by now. Also, if it starts encoding the h.264 first, the time remaining might “think” that the second file (the .ac3 audio) will take just as long as the h.264. If so, it will assume a 60 hour encode time until it finishes the h.264, then it will “realize” that the second file just audio that only takes 5 min or so.
That said, it looks like the process has hung on the audio file. The .ac3 should only have elapsed 5-10 min by the time it is complete. I am pretty sure it is normal for one of the two files to have processed for 2 seconds then wait for its turn after the first file finishes.
I think it is generally considered that a better workflow is to export your timeline and bring the resulting .mov into Compressor but I haven’t used FCPX share to Blu-ray, so I have no comparison.
If you want to speed up your h.264 encodes, consider Matrox MAX. It does (just barely) faster than real time h.264 encoding on dedicated hardware, so a 4 hour video takes 4 hours. Even though the current situation with individual drivers for different Apps and OS’s is a complete mess and it’s been giving me hell trying to keep up to date, I still couldn’t live without it. So I deal with it, booting separate partitions for each App and sticking to the OS & App versions that are working reliably with it. I reccomend an MXO2 Mini with MAX. It’s $599.00 on B&H right now.
Also there is some Elgato Turbo USB Dongle thingy that I know nothing about but its supposed to accelerate h.264’s as well. I think it closer to $100, you’ll have to look into that one if interested.
Oh, and while it is always helpful to post system specs, OS version and such I don’t think you need to post the serial number!
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You should be just fine, I constantly work with hour long 1920×1080 Prores clips. File sizes well over your 10GB average, no problem.
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I think that pops up after restoring a project from the autosave vault and then hitting save.
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FWIW, if you’re using USB enclosures like the Western Digital Elements, there are likely 3.5″ sata drives inside. I found WD Caviar Black’s in the 2TB WD Elements and Caviar Greens in the 3TB model. I got the 2tb ones at a black Friday sale for $70ea, at the time it was over $200 for the exact same bare drive! Even at normal prices the USB enclosure is 1/2 the price. Crazy.
Anyway, with bare drives, you can use an HDD Dock. A FW800 dock with dual drive slots that fit both 3.5″ and 2.5″ is pretty handy to have around (mine is actually eSATA). If you have Thunderbolt iMacs, there are docks with that as well. The drives can get pretty hot on a dock, so it’s a good idea to have a fan blowing on them.
If you go down this route, pulling apart USB enclosures to get at the juicy SATA innards and editing off of a FW800 dock. You will absolutely have to have a SOLID backup system in place. Though, I have not had any problems with any of this stuff, I don’t edit from or rely on these. I use the dock and bare drives for stuff like transferring large files to drives and mailing to clients.
I’ve also replaced the drives in 500GB-1TB Lacie D2 Quadras with 2TB drives, no problems (more WD Caviar Blacks). You could probably find used D2 enclosures cheap and stick your own drives in.
If you don’t have a bunch of USB enclosures with SATA drives inside, or if you do but don’t want to dissaseble them, forget it all. You need to buy new. Get either LaCie or G-tech “quad interface” enclosures or a RAID Array and get the heck away from USB!