Frank Pledge
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will try intermediate codec. i think you may have nailed it as i have read about using this codec, but thought that it was ‘old’ info. meaning that FCP had become more HDV native.thanks so so so much!
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tell me about it. the media also sits on a sata raid array. very very strange. thanks
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thank you thank you. gonna try that.
do you ever find playback in FCP on your AE movies are dropping frames like crazy? my render settings SEEM correct as they match the timeline in FCP aka – they do not need a render to playback – but then don’t playback…
thanks again, gonna give it a go
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nice. i had some jobs a while back that forced me to go back to FCP4 and running the system off the cloned fw drive (with fcp4 installed) also worked like gangbusters. i saw no loss in performace. although i was in dv.
when fcp6 arrives, i will absolutley clone my now system drive as a precaution for legacy edits. it’s so simple it’s insane.
fp
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clone your system drive to an external and run the g5 abroad off the firewire.
problem:
IF you are running media off an additional FW drive, you would need/want that media drive on a seperate bus – meaning the g5 abroad would need an additional FW card installed. which is not a huge deal as the cards are cheap cheap.
fp
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never heard of it. doesn’t feel like it would work so well if there was one as interview subjects don’t often think about diction too much. it would seem there would be e ton of errors.
i assume you know that there are transcription services and it is beyond your time and or budget?
fp
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cool
unfortunately, very very often some sort of ‘corruption’ tends to be the issue. meaning the prefs or the drive permissions or the render files. keep that in mind at all times when in FCP.
there are tricks to ‘saving’ your prefs so that you don’t have to redo them all the time. search tutorials at LAFCPUG
fp
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possibly coorupt render files.
here are some standard troubleshooting things:
trash prefs:
https://www.lafcpug.org/Tutorials/basic_trash_prefs5.htmlfix drive permissions.
now the one that hurts: destroy existing render files.
make sure when you re-render that the render files are going somewhere smart like a nice chunky media drive and not the system drive.
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i agree with walter.
main problem is dv. i am the WORST graphics/vfx guy around, but had shot some green screen stuff a while back. we shot on betasp but did the first rounds of keying bringing it in as DV for rough cuts. I did the keying in AE. the dv keys were TERRIBLE. awful.
Later I re-did them after digitizing from Beta to uncompressed 10bit. NIGHT AND DAY. for real. different experience. the keys came off mucho easier and much much cleaner.
combustion is the real deal, and after effects is the base bottom app to do keying. fcp? motion? hmm.
2cents
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doesn’t fat32 only support files up to 2 gigs? or have they fixed that?
if not – there you go
fp