[Eddie Adams]

brilliant! thanks.

[Eddie Adams]

For what? Ungrouping a compound clip, or group/ungrouping clips to “Create Storyline”? Because neither of those seem to be options on the Primary Storyline, only on secondary story lines.

[Eddie Adams]

Got it, thanks for all the tips guys.

One more question — is it stupid to use two drives from the same manufacturing batch for a Raid 1 setup? In theory, if it’s a bad batch, aren’t you risking a lot by using two drives from the same batch? Is it more ideal to mix-and-match two different drives, possibly different brands and/or batches, as long as the RPM/Size/Cache specs match?

Thanks.

[Eddie Adams]

Yeah, makes sense. Thanks for the fast reply.

I understand what you’re saying about the setup I proposed, but let me clarify:

1 2TB internal = Edit Drive 1
1 2TB internal = Edit Drive 2
1 4TB external, partitioned into 2 drives. One partition = mirror of Edit Drive 1, one partition = mirror of Edit Drive 2.

So yes, not a true RAID 1 setup, but seems to be more of a streamlined option than using Synk or Time Machine to back up each internal drive to the external. My only concern would be, does this slow down the 6gb/s internal drives since they’re forced to mirror the 3gb/s external?

I guess another option would be:

RAID 1 setup using both 2tb internal drives for my Active Edit Drive.
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Use the 3TB G-Drive for project archival, with the 4TB G-Raid as the backup drive to that. Benefit to that would be, I would not have to keep either external drive constantly powered, since they would be used just for archival purposes.

Thoughts?

[Eddie Adams]

that seems like such a terrible design flaw. i have no real interest in purchasing new drives – both G-drives were given to me so I’m just trying to the make the best use out of them as possible. Currently my 4TB G-Raid is using solely as a backup drive, to mirror 3 separate 1TB drives using a program called Synk Pro. However, I’m not in love with this setup and would prefer something more streamlined.

Is it possible to partition the 4TB G-Raid 0 into two separate 2TB drives, and use those partitions to as the mirrors for the 2TB Internal drives in a Raid 1 setup? I’m sure it’s not ideal, but seems like a reasonable means to an end.

[Eddie Adams]

I may be a little late in the game, but what exactly are the compatibility issues you are worried about? I’ve been using FCP 7 on 10.7 for over a year now with no issues… but should I be concerned?

[Eddie Adams]

Also, copy and pasting into a new sequence stills give me the error, so it doesnt seem to be a corrupt sequence issue.

[Eddie Adams]

This is an old thread but still a common problem. I’m getting the same error, except in my case:

I have ProRes 422 1080×720 29.97 footage sitting in my timeline – the one clip is about 20 minutes long. The clip is an interview, and I slice out the interviewer to isolate just the responses. So I have lots of short segments of the one clip on my timeline now. I double click each segment, CTRL+U to subclip it, and give it a name in my project bin. Then I go to delete the segment (or any segment) in the timeline and it gives me the same error message – which is strange because I”m not trying to add anything, just delete. FCP now no longer allows me to subclip anything or delete anything from the timeline – I just keep getting that same error message. So I shut down FCP, and after it quits I get an “FCP Quit Unexpectedly” error. Now I restart FCP and everything is fine, until I make another subclip, then the whole process repeats. It’s extremely frustrating when on a short deadline.

I’m running FCP 7.0.3 on OS X 10.7.5. My project is all ProRes 422 footage at 29.97.

[Eddie Adams]

This is an old thread but still a common problem. I’m getting the same error, except in my case:

I have ProRes 422 1280×720 29.97 footage sitting in my timeline – the one clip is about 20 minutes long. The clip is an interview, and I slice out the interviewer to isolate just the responses. So I have lots of short segments of the one clip on my timeline now. I double click each segment, CTRL+U to subclip it, and give it a name in my project bin. Then I go to delete the segment (or any segment) in the timeline and it gives me the same error message – which is strange because I”m not trying to add anything, just delete. FCP now no longer allows me to subclip anything or delete anything from the timeline – I just keep getting that same error message. So I shut down FCP, and after it quits I get an “FCP Quit Unexpectedly” error. Now I restart FCP and everything is fine, until I make another subclip, then the whole process repeats. It’s extremely frustrating when on a short deadline.

I’m running FCP 7.0.3 on OS X 10.7.5. My project is all ProRes 422 footage at 29.97. Within one project, I have three sequences I am working in.

Any ideas? I’ve trashed preferences and restarted the comp with no luck – I immediately get the same error.

[Eddie Adams]

I understand your explanation of framerate. What I don’t get, is that if I import a still image as 1 frame duration, 1/1, how does that translate to a 23.98 “framerate”? It’s a single frame, of a non-moving image. If you Make Still Image from a video clip, it imports it into your project as a single frame – and does not even assign a framerate. I would think FCP should do the same for my imported stills, but it does not. Maybe there is a way to do this, but I havent been able to find it anywhere on the web.

Regardless, Quicktime Pro is able to pull the Image Sequence into a nice quicktime, which I can then export at the images native resolution – making this the perfect workflow for my work. Thanks for your help everybody.