[Fuelve]

FCP can take a series of stills, but you have to be very careful to stipulate the length of imported stills, somewhere in the Prefs.

If not, you’ll get the default, which is 10 seconds.

I don’t think that method (importing stills) would help me in this case bcs I am butting up against the limitations of just how much data my G5 and hard drives can blow thru without stuttering.

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[Fuelve]

Thanks, Jerry..

Yeah, I’m bumping into that reality..I have 2 7200RPM external drives..appx 160GB and 250GB each, and I have my FCP projects on those drives.

I’m starting to get the feeling that I’m looking at what my limiting factors are, in terms of what I *can* produce. What I’ve seen is that my set up (Dual 2ghz G5) can’t deliver 24 fps smoothly at the full quality.

Since I’m limited by budget, do you feel that I need to look at codecs which my system can deliver smoothly, then set up my workflow around that?

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