Harry Bromley-davenport
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There’s a little program called “LOADER” which will import your sound and change it to the appropriate format very efficiently. It costs about $50 and works very well.
Then you won’t have to render
Harry
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PPS. For your film festival thing or whatever it is, you really MUST get permission from the copyright owners of the film extracts because I’ll bet the festival is charging admittance for the show.
I’ll also bet that they won’t give a hoot.
H.
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PS. MPEG Streamclip is available from Apple free of charge.
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Oh, for Goodness’ Sake!
There are plenty of perfectly acceptable reasons for taking an extract from a commercial DVD.
For instance, an actor or DP may have it in their contract that they get a copy of the DVD and that they can include an extract in their showreel. Nobody is going to get bent out of shape even if it is illegal by strict interpretation.
I’ve used MPEG Streamclip to make copies of released DVD’s of my films for years simply to have a master copy to send to actors as per their SAG contracts.
Sue me. I own the damn thing.
Harry.
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Has nobody other than me had that weird issue with Optical Flow when it gives you that “watery” effect surrounding the moving object?
Is this just me?
Best
Harry
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Gabriel,
All we can do is hope that the promised Snow Leopard system will get FCP to make use of all available cores. Like you, I am on an 8 core.
O/T, I directed a film called “Mockingbird Don’t Sing” which your father acted in around 2000. There can’t be that many Regalbutos in the world, so I’m assuming you know what I’m talking about.
Send him my best affection. He’s a trouper.
Best
Harry.
Harry Bromley-Davenport.
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Please use Andy Mees’ excellent blur Plugin, mentioned above.
I use it constantly. I recently tracked and removed an ear ring that a Police Detective was wearing by mistake(!), and often remove cables and light stands to get through QC and pimples on actors’ faces.
Andy Mees, as I often say, is a God.
There is also a whole bunch of other FREE plugins up on his site.
Harry
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Mr Miller,
Is this suggestion you kindly make based on a cure that you yourself experienced? If not, may I ask what the theory behind the suggestion is?
With thanks for the reply to the thread.
Harry.
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Hey, thanks for the reply, Alex.
Maybe it is indeed some errant media file causing my problems, but I have had the same crashing problem now for 2 years while cutting 3 feature length projects.
In any case, tomorrow I will do some experiments with taking say, a 10 minute segment of unrendered material and, piece by piece, removing and then reinserting shots.
The problem is that, when I get to the end of this ghastly experiment and find that I am still crashing, how do I know that it was not MORE THAN ONE shot which is causing it?
Thanks for the suggestion. Any further ideas accepted.
I long to be able to set FCP to render, go out and take my dogs for a walk for half and hour and feel confident that, when I return, I will not be faced with “FCP has quit unexpectedly”
All the best with your own problem and thank you for the input.
Harry
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Mr D’Eath,
I am a fellow sufferer from FCP crashes while rendering.
I’ve done everything. EVERYTHING … You name it. Including erasing all drives and reinstalling System and FCS from scratch — and I’m not mentioning Disk Warrior, trashing prefs and all that stuff.
Anything more complicated than a 3 minute render of a simple effect causes a crash, so I have learned – over the past two years, that I must baby sit my renders and do them in tiny portions while intermittently saving.
I’m on a Mac Octo with all the latest FCS software and a well maintained system, by the way.
The ONLY way I have found to render any lengthy section, or an entire timeline, without crashing, I have found is to set the “autorender” to (say) “after 10 mins of inactivity” in Prefs and then to go away and PRAY.
For reasons that I cannot understand, the autorender generally does not crash the machine. But if I initiate a render without interrupting and saving all the time, I get a crash.
If you have ANY IDEAS AT ALL, HOWEVER IDIOTIC which might assist me in curing this disgusting situation, please contact me.
From a fellow sufferer.
Harry