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Drew Decain
January 16, 2012 at 6:57 pm in reply to: Challenges working with limited drive space, suggestions?

Would be that I could, however the client I am working for wants me editing on site, with proprietary equipment and property, and they do not want to spend the $100 on an external.

After switching my sequence settings to 422(LT) and rendering with default sequence settings, I am getting much more manageable and space-efficient render file sizes. Thanks for the help!
Drew Decain
January 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm in reply to: Challenges working with limited drive space, suggestions?

“What is your final product going to be delivered on? Web? DVD? BluRay? With ALL of those, PR4444 is too much, and PR422, or even LT would be good choices.”

Yeah I know PR4444 is overkill sequence resolution, and these videos are being delivered to Web, Mobile, or the occasional conference room Projector.

I think I will experiment with changing my sequence settings to PR422, my reasoning for editing in 4444 is simply to keep things consistent from video track to video track (when I first started editing here, FinalCut was crashing 10 times a day and since I revamped the workflow, I haven’t had any issues with FinalCut crashes but I have been running out of space).

Thanks for the suggestions!
Drew Decain
January 13, 2012 at 4:44 pm in reply to: Exporting File Size Too Big

You could alternatively try and download a free progam called MPEG Streamclip and further compress your footage using that instead of exporting from Final Cut Pro.

This method may result in some minor quality loss, but I assume you are not the most concerned with quality at the moment.

Here’s a link to the Mac download:
https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html