David Jakubovic
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So the solution: I ended up having to get a brand new Mac Pro and that seemed to do the trick 🙂 I guess I was overdo for a new machine. It was probably a combination of RAM, graphic card and processor. Whatever it was, it works perfectly now. And renders this huge footage quickly too.
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Yeah I should be doubling it. The thing is that it’s worked just fine for me with 1920/1080 footage off fw-800 drives or just on the internal drives. Never had a problem (except with Red footage which always seems to have some issue.) I figured I’d just get a new machine when I need to – maybe now I need to. Anyway – the footage is on an 800 drive, but even when I bring it in to the internals it has the problem. I’ll just enjoy the laid back day of converting 5D footage to 4444 so it all matches and then I’ll buy a new computer in a few days when I’m done with this.
But the weird thing is – the computer deals just fine with the 4444 footage. It plays it and works with it well – renders are a bit slow but I can deal with that. It’s just that it doesn’t work with it properly after watching a 422 clip.
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Hi Shane,
The 5D footage has indeed all been converted to Prores.
I am finding now that if I put that 5d footage on a timeline with the Red footage settings, and export the footage, then when I bring it back in it works. But it’s a terrible workaround because it means hours and hours of exporting.
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I have had the same problem. Every time I quit the program and come back, all renders of smoothcam shots are gone. Today, something new happened: I actually SAW the red render line reappear two minutes after turning on the program, and this happened while applying a random motion change (scale) to a shot on the timeline. I’m “glad” to hear it has been happening to other people and not just me because I thought maybe I’m going slightly mad 🙂
Has anyone figured out a solution to this?
“We’ll fix it in post”
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Oh, believe me, I did what he suggests in that post very early on. Nothing work. The workaround I found was to export the clips on which I was doing effects, bring them back in and then do the effect – it worked perfectly then. Very strange.
“We’ll fix it in post”
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I am having this same render-files problem.
Every day now for a week, a large portion of my timeline, one that has a bunch of stuff to render, keeps becoming un-rendered as soon as I turn the computer off and back on again. It is a 15 minute section of a more or less one hour timeline. I am working on a few projects at once, from different drives, and it is not doing it to other projects – nor is it doing it to other portions of the problematic timeline. I noticed this thread is from many months ago. Have any of you guys figured this out?
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Thanks everyone,
Yeah that might be what happened. What a crazy problem that is! I have no idea if it happened here or before it got to me. I was careful to turn stuff off when I hooked it up – possibly except for the first time, I’m not 100% sure though. The Mac’s firewire port is fine, but I hooked up the camera to two Mac laptops and in both cases it wouldn’t recognize it.
BUT – and this is strange – if I have an external hard drive connected to my computer, and it’s on (and I see it on the desktop) – it’s connected through the fw800 port – if I now connect the Z1U, while it’s off, and then turn it on (either through the external hard drive or just into the tower’s fw400 port), then the external hard-drive is suddenly thrown off the desktop and it says I removed it improperly. Which leads me to think that the computer must at least be AWARE that the camera – or at least that something – is being connected to it.
Make the diagnosis even weirder, right?
“We’ll fix it in post”
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I’ve had this problem. I found that in the sequence settings, the pixel aspect ration needs to be set to “square”. Once you’ve done that to a sequence you already edited – it will not change anything of what is already on it, but if you change the motion tab distortion back to 0 like you did, it was fine – and any new footage you cut into the correctly set sequence is also fine. This did not distort the final product that I worked on.
David
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Thanks!
I guess I’m trying to figure out how exactly to do that process manually…
Do you know??
David
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Actually that is what my concern was, that they have the same look. If it’s the same look then it’s fine with me… At the end, after I edit, if I export it to 23.98 will the cuts look the same or will some be a little off, do you know? I only ask because it might be a delivery requirement to provide a 23.98 quicktime in the end… Also, for broadcast, if I deliver a 59.94 quicktime, and they make a 29.97 tape of it, does it look like a regular pulldown tape?
Thanks!