Jason Levy
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Hi Prashant,
I discovered that big projects are challenging for FCP which is not too graceful as it runs out of memory.
First of all make sure that there is nothing in your project that is not absolutely necessary. Don’t dump every last thing in there willy-nilly. For example if you have a folder full of temp music do not create a bin in your project and put it all in there – that will use up a lot of vital memory that you could be using for your sequences. Get the music directly from the finder or use iTunes if you need a way to index it. In fact anything you can access directly from the finder and can live without having in a bin should be handled that way.
If you have multiple backup versions of your main sequence or old roughcuts, assembly edits etc., store them in a separate project,delete them from your main project and only open that project if you need to access those sequences.. then close it.
Do not work with multiple sequences open unnecessarily. If you are not using something close it.
More extreme – If you have a ton of rushes you can try keeping all your bins of raw scenes in another project from your main project. Open that project and copy the bin for the scene you are working on, then close the storage project. Delete the bin when you are done working on the scene.
You can put as much memory in your computer as you wish but FCP only accesses a limited amount of it. I think it’s four gigs? So if you are working on a very large project you must really become strict about what you put in your working project and anything you don’t absolutely need should be removed.
Anyhow we had similar problems and that is how I solved them…
Good luck.
jason
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There is no reason to zero all data. That is an complete waste of time.
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Hi Tim,
The solution is to buy a small sync generator like an Horita BSG 50 and sync your card and deck from that.
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Hi Tim,
The solution is to buy a small sync generator something like this one
and sync your card and deck from that.
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Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Our systems are generally working fine.. for the moment.
jason
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Hey Jeremy.. why would that yield a result different that from Software Update?
jason
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Put the slug on your timeline, edit it in the viewer and then manually enter the length to be 1:00:00:00 or whatever you’d like.
You’ll then be able to pull the handle out as far as you need to. Works for me anyhow.
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We’ve had that when we were running out of memory. Is the project very big? Do you have multiple sequences open at once? Use Activity monitor to check how much free memory is available when you are trying to master. Just a thought.
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You should be able to reset the scratch disk to any other drive. Have you tried that?
jason
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Yeah that brick. Holy cow. I wish mine would break so I could get a new Dell too. Lucky fellow.