Eric Johnson
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Not knowing what kind of Avid (mac/pc), I would ask, was the media recaptured for the FCP edit? Or was it recompressed in someway by the avid? I ask because you mentioned that an offline file was looking for 3 parts of a file… could you be dealing with media that started in FAT-32, so was restricted to 2gb file sizes… since the media has been moved could all of those links/aliases be lost….
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Trash Preferences. If you don’t know how to do that, then grab Digital Rebellions Pref Manager. It’s free. After you trash the pref’s you’ll have to completely reset FCP, but it is for the better.
Also, until issue is resolved don’t run anything other than FCP. If you system is more stable w/ only FCP running, then launch 1 of the apps that you usually have running while editing at a time, giving each app an hour or so to do any “damage” that it may or may not cause until you figure out which combo is upsetting your system.
You could also be running into a storage issue…. rendering or autosaving to the boot drive can cause those types of problems.
Though based on your description of the Canvas, I’m going to guess preferences.
Good luck.
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APPLE-J on the required clip.
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Are you monitoring the deck? It doesn’t really matter if you see video on the computer monitor, you need to see it coming from the deck. Doesn’t need to be fancy, just a tv, plug it into the deck Composite, like I said, you only need to see picture and hear sound coming from the deck during the operation.
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If you have to do it in house, consider doing your output through a Kona or Black Magic card. You can play it 1080, and no one will ever know the difference (in all but extreme cases). There is also the option of taking it somewhere and running it through a Teranex or some other Grass Valley computing solution. Those are the best option that I know of. And if you’re using DVC Pro HD, probably the best.
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Having read the Apple thread and what is here, and not knowing where things still stand, this is what I would suggest:
Run DISK UTILITY and repair permissions.
First thing, even if you’ve already done it, TRASH your PREFS
Then, TRASH your RENDER files, they will re-render and these get corrupt like crazy, especially if you’re dealing with any sort of nesting.Do you have any mp3’s or any sort of MPEG-1, 2, or 4 ? That’s HDV, H264, Sorenson, pretty much anything off the web. If so, download mpeg streamclip and convert all of your non-DV to DV. That also goes for any AVI, WMA or anything you would be needing flip4mac to read. Switch all of your mp3 or AAC’s in iTunes or Soundtrack to AIFF.
If you haven’t done so yet, you would benefit greatly from reinstalling FCP at the very least. Go to Digital Rebellion and get the FCS Remover and delete all FCP files except for the licensing info. That would be if the above doesn’t work.
Also, not to beat a dead horse, but if anything you captured to the USB drive as FAT32 as a DV file was longer than say 37-45 minutes than you have files that have a pointer and sub 2GB pieces. FCP doesn’t really like that, either recapture from FCP or export in QT or MPEG Streamclip as DV 48k.
If you have any stills that are larger than 3500×3500 they will crash any FCP regardless or system resources. You may have issues with anything bigger than 2000×2000.
Also, DON’T run any apps other than FCP while you are trying to figure this out. Especially any app written by Apple, iTunes and Safari are massive RAM hogs. That also goes for any iLife app.
FCP does use the Video card and the VRAM heavily, so any problem here is something that needs to be considered, regardless of it happening in other projects.
Hopefully you’ve gotten it all figured out. If not this should help.
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Digital Heaven’s is good. Can do 2 pixels at a time. Render is moderate.
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No luck, with Digital Rebellion, meaning what?
It sounds like your G5 had some manner of catastrophic failure, which effects everything. Especially finicky apps like FCS. Though it sounds like it happened right to the core of your system, i.e. QT not working.
Sorry to say but it sounds like something happened and your drive ate a bit of itself. You need to back up important files/media. by a new internal drive and start fresh.
That is your best place to start.
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DL preference manager from Digital Rebellion and trash preferences for the entire suite.
If that doesn’t work, you may need to reinstall. For that, FCS remover from Digital rebellion and remove everything but licensing info and reinstall.
If that doesn’t work, back up everything of value on the boot disk/buy another internal drive and start from scratch.
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try exporting the project through the standard Quicktime Export and then compressing to H264. If you do this you can determine if it’s just the QT conversion that’s bogging down or if you have some corrupted media.
Have you restarted the computer? Have you trashed the preferences? These are also good things to try.