Jason Jenkins
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[Tangier Clarke] “The goal:
Archive exclusively to disk image only the media needed to rebuild the final edit. (I already backup the raw camera content to two hard drives as I get them)”I don’t know of a way to do that.
[Tangier Clarke] “- I don’t have a way of knowing how large the project is and thus how big to make the disk image. Oddly, sometime I’ll make the disk image (sparse bundle) incredibly large and I still can’t move the project to the disk image.”
Just look at the size of the Event folder associated with the project and the Project folder itself and you’ll see how big the disk image needs to be. Sometimes the render files can be huge. You can delete those before you move the project if need be.
Jason Jenkins
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[Michael Garber] “Recently, I archived a project and event that was about 80GB. I created it as a Sparse Bundle and followed the directions as outlined on Ripple. I decided to go back into the project/event and do some messing around.
It was my understanding that a Sparse Bundle would grow in disk size if you added files to it. However, when I was rendering the footage, I got a disk space error. Then, FCP would lock up and I’d force quit. When restarting, I’d get a SAN disk error (I’m not using a SAN). Quitting again and unmounting the Sparse Bundle fixed it. I think there were some other errors, but I didn’t log it.
So, does anyone know off hand if I did something wrong or if, perhaps, I’m just wrong about my assumption with Sparse Images? I read about a terminal command for shrinking the images down, if necessary.”
Sparseimages will only take up as much space as you use up inside them. So, if you create an 80GB sparseimage and only have 10GB of content inside it, it is only taking up 10GB of space on your drive. You can add content up to the 80GB limit that you first set, at which point you hit a wall (as you discovered). However, you can resize the sparseimage in Disk Utility as follows:
1. Open Disk Utility
2. If the Sparseimage you want to resize does not show up in the pane on the left, then drag the sparseimage from the finder to the left pane in Disk Utility.
3. Select the sparseimage in Disk Utility and click on the “Resize Image” button on the upper right.
4. Type in the new size and hit “Resize”.
5. In the left pane, right-click on the sparseimage and select “Open Disk Image”. The “Partition” option will now become available on the right.
6. Hit the “Partition” button and you will see a graphical representation of your partition size. Click on the bottom right corner of the partition (representing the previous size) and drag it out to fill the new size of your sparseimage.
7. Hit “Apply”, then “Partion”.
8. Enjoy your resized sparseimage!Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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You can downconvert in Compressor in order to author a DVD, or do it in hardware like an AJA card if all you need to do is play out to a DVD recorder.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Jeremy Garchow] “In terms of ProRes vs HQ, for DSLR material, ProRes is just fine.”
When do we get ProRes LT back? 🙁
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Check out OWC for machine specific RAM upgrades:
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Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Juan Peña] “Really? 6Gigs is not enough, even when working with proxy files? Because I get the beach ball with proxy or full PR 422 files. If it’s going to solve the problem i’ll go tomorrow to buy more RAM. It’s driving me crazy!
Please advise”You can open up Activity Monitor to keep an eye on your RAM usage to verify. I was using 8GB of RAM, but I was using it all up, so I upgraded to 16GB. Now I can work much longer before hitting the RAM wall.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Running out of RAM/paging to disk?
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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Recently, I’ve found myself wishing that FCPX would use more of my CPU! It’s amazing what it can do on a newer Macbook Pro with the GPU, but when I play back some unrendered stuff and it struggles, I wonder why the CPU is only hitting 10%. When I export video, the CPU really cranks up, which is satisfying.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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OK, just discovered the Zoom tool. Hit “Z”, select the range I want and I’m there. That works.
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.
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The only time I get a fail is when I’ve typed the password incorrectly. I upload to several different account and I wish “share” would remember them!
Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
Video production… with style!Check out my Mormon.org profile.