[Harry Bromley-davenport]

I have experienced all of the above and all my problems were cured by one simple action:

When rendering a long project – and to reduce crashes in general – save your project, then throw everything out of the browser that is not the sequence you are rendering.

Now create a NEW PROJECT with just your ONE sequence to render or output to QT.

Reboot.

Open our NEW SEQUENCE and render or export.

I spent days – weeks – using Disk Warrior, Disk utility, reformatting drives and just about everything else, but this is finally what worked for me.

I have an Octo that’s about 3 months old, 4 Gigs RAM and GRaid drives, BTW.

Hope this helps you as it did me. Let me know, anyway.

best wishes,

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

I mean hit the lower case letter “i” to create an “in” point.

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thanks for the help.

Sorry to be a nuisance and appreciate your advice.

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thanks very much for the reply.

I do intend to have our CGI guy do this properly eventually and this was just for a temporary fix for viewing purposes.

Anyway, I’ll fiddle around a bit and see what I can do. Maybe I’ll import the existing “slow” blizzard into FCP and speed it up there.

Sorry to be a bore and thanks to one and all for the assistance.

best

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

ok. So I should look up “particle emitter properties”?

Thanks very much. I’ll give it a shot. You appreciate that this is pretty much a one off deal and that I really don’t need to know “Motion”.

Your help appreciated.

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thanks. But I’m looking for a private owner who will probably charge me much less than B&S

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

This CEDAR thing suggested by a responder sounds terrific. I didn’t know of this program.

Go West, young man, and find it.

Best of luck

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

If you have a BUZZ, rather than a HUM you are in very serious trouble. A BUZZ contains loads of harmonics and is pretty much impossible to remove. A HUM with no BUZZINESS is closer to a sine wave and easier to isolate and remove.

You have, according to your post, done everything I can think of to cure your problem.

The next stage is to try specialized programs which you won’t know how to work like Soundsoap Pro ($600) – and since you’ve already farted around in SoundTrack Pro it sounds like you’ve hit the wall.

You are probably not going to be able to cure this problem in a truly satisfactory manner. I’m sorry.

Why don’t you throw yourself on the mercy of an audio post house with a really top reputation? Plead poverty … play them your stuff and ask for an assessment of the problem. Perhaps they’ll do a test for you for free. Most audio places are pretty cool about this kind of thing and tend to be generous in attitude … more so than video houses because their gear is less expensive.

My bleakness stems from being truthful. You are, I think, pretty much buggered.

Best

Harry.

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Thanks for the advice.

Surprisingly Sony has turned out to be very helpful with massive choices of shots.

Thasnks again

Harry

[Harry Bromley-davenport]

Yep. Me too. But not ALL the render files – the effect is random. You never know what render file is going to go AWOL or when.

It’s maddening.

Harry.