Don Smith
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RE: “Eject the full drive.”
We’re thinking alike. I did just that right after posting my question and when I did, the projects opened quickly and saved just fine and it allowed me to see the problem; there was missing media in three of the seven or eight projects that needed re-linking.
Apparently the media on the full drive was directing the Save functions to the full drive. That’s my guess based on my observation.
When attempting to re-link to from the old Event to like-media in the new Event, the new media was a corrupted copy. How, I can’t explain. It was a hassle but once I either re-linked to good media on the new drive or moved the Project to inactive status, I could remount the full drive and edit away on the new drive.
I did notice that a Project with a lot of missing media was not listed by Event X because it somehow got nested inside another project, yet FCPX still recognized it as its own Project. Once I de-nested the Project then Event X could properly see it and put it away and it no longer appeared in FCPX to mess things up.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’m here to verify that you are right.
Don Smith
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This thread approaches my problem but not quite so I hope the group won’t mind if I take it one step further…
I was editing on a video drive (not the boot drive) and ran out of disk space. I’ve moved the project and the event to a new drive but the project still insists on rendering to the previous (full) drive and I can find NOTHING that tells me how to force it to render to the new drive. Anyone?
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No, not connected to a SAN but the alert calls each of the drives within my MacPro a ‘SAN’.
I can see that having two Events named the same could cause confusion. I thought I had moved the original Event and Projects out of the full drive with Event X but will check that when I return to that computer on Monday.
Thank you very much for the good ideas.
Don Smith
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I’m probably the last one to this party, but I just discovered today that I can skim individual audio tracks in the inspector. This is great news to me in that it’s now easy to see which channel the good audio is. I put the cursor over the track I want to hear and wait for the skimmer to appear, then press play (L).
Don Smith
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Or, if you didn’t shoot a clean plate (meaning the identical scene without the man) you can usually find the same small area the man will disappear from before he goes there. Duplicate the video and crop to that area over where you want the man to disappear. This assumes that the video is not in motion and was shot with a locked-down camera. If your camera was in motion, its much tougher but still doable to isolate that area clean and keyframe it to track with the motion of the master shot. I’m guessing you’re only talking less than 30 frames before the shot changes.
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The above tip is what worked with me at home with a MacPro 1,1 and a three year old DeckLink card.
At work, on a MacPro 3,1 and a brand new, latest model, DeckLink card, the opposite is true. I can’t get smooth playback unless I choose ‘Better Performance” in the FCPX Playback prefs.
Both machines have 16GB of RAM.
Go figure.
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I’ve seen this problem several times and, for me, it was always a case of scaling the wrong thing.
You probably scaled the video size to bring down the size of the font, which closes in the bounding box when you should leave the video size alone and scale WITHIN the bounding box by scaling the text.
Don Smith
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I found that you can build a compound clip in the Event and use it multiple times in projects and each use is an INSTANCE of the parent. Changing the instance does NOT change the parent! Say you used the same compound clip from the Event three times but on the third use you had to make changes to the instance of the compound clip in the project. That change does NOT change the compound clip parent in the Event. It’s the same behavior as using an effect it appears to me. You put an instance of an effect in the project and change it all you like but it doesn’t change the parent effect in the effects panel. I like that and I’m going to start moving toward building more compound clips in the Event. Double-clicking on the compound clip in the event allows editing of the parent in the Event. It strikes me as I write this that I have not tested that changing the parent changes the child. I’m betting that it won’t.
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Setting aside for a moment that the slowdown problem is real, I thought I would tell the story of a slowdown that was for other reasons just to put into your toolbar of troubleshooting ideas.
A fellow editor was having his projects playback slow tremendously in both FCP and FCPX. I did all the usual housekeeping tasks for the computer and found some problems along the way but fixing them did not speed up the timelines.
I was thinking that I was completely out of ideas when I had a House moment; I moved one of his video files to another hard drive, imported it into the slow timeline, and where that clip was placed, the timeline sprang to life!
It was a dying hard drive that showed no obvious sign of dying. It appeared healthy enough with saving and serving files but gave no clue that it’s data rate in serving to the system was very lethargic.
Just something to check.
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Off the top of my head it sounds like you applied the mask directly to the video when it should be applied to a group that contains the video. Then, animate the video, not the group.
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