Jason Mccaffrey
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Also, you say your hard drives aren’t tapped out, but how full are they? From what I have gleaned from the cow, you don’t want your media drives to ever be above an 80% capacity.
Jason
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Oh, that makes sense. I haven’t composited more than 6 or 7 tracks yet, so that hasn’t really come up. Thanks for the quick response.
Jason
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Just curious- are you sure you captured the video of this clip? In your browser scoll over to the column labeled “tracks” and make sure it says “1v, 2a”.
Jason
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Thanks for the responses. I just got back from the computer store where I bought another hard drive. I’m going internal this time around, with a 300gb drive (another western digital- feel free to ignore me when I post with problems with this one, Walter. I just read your post when I got back, but I’ve had success with WD drives at home and the office. The problem drive that started this thread has been at work for years).
Could someone please point me in the direction of a reliable ultra ata/100 card?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
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I have noticed sluggish behavior after leaveing my computer on for more than two days. Of course, you’re working with one of them fancy new fangled G5’s, while I am quite outdated.
What I’ve seen reccommended here before, and what I use myself, is mac janitor, which is a free download that gives your computer the colon cleansing it needs when you don’t leave your computer on all the time. Google it and you’ll learn more.
Though, now I’m curious, does Apple reccommend leaving the mac on? Is that why macjanitor is neccessary for those of us who don’t leave our computers on?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
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When I got back from lunch I decided to try to open the corrupt project that was giving me all the troubles yesterday. I turned on the original hard drive so fcp could access all of the original media. Today the project loaded, even though yesterday I got an “I/O error” message while trying to perform the same operation.
So I proceeded to immediately break this gigantic project down into smaller, more manageable project files.
I appreciate all of the advice, though, and am still curious about why this might have happened at all and what an editor can do to avoid this hassle in the future.
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
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That’s a great point, but I’m still curious if it’s likely that a clip became corrupt when it hasn’t been touched in months. I don’t understand why I had no problem with the project on Friday, but then when I come back on Tuesday the project won’t open. Could I have prevented this somehow?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
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[Scott Witthaus] “sounds like corrupt media in the more recent project file?”
I think that’s accurate. I am going through the Ken Stone article that was recommended in an earlier post. The idea is to isolate which bin holds the corrupted media. Unfortuantely, this is a very tedious process as I have been working on this same project for a very very long time, and there is a lot of media involved. Of course, I’m starting with the more recent media, but still to no avail.
I think that corrupt media in the project file is accurate because the Ken Stone article had me take the media offline (copy project file to internal hard drive, turn off external hard drive that hosts the capture scratch, load project file from internal with media disconnected). The file did open when the media was disconnected.
Thanks, everyone, for all of the good tips. If there are any more, please keep them coming.
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
QuickTime 6.5.2 -
Thanks for the advice, guys. I will try all of it.
Just wanted to add another bit of info. I found out that I am able to open a 3 day old version of the project that is about 1mb lighter (the project file that won’t open is 7.9mb). Is this a ram issue? I realize that my computer is about the slowest it can be to still allow me to edit. Have I hit the wall with how hard my computer is willing to work for me?
Jason
400 MHz Power Mac G4 2.9
832 MB SDRAM
(256 256 256 64=832-everyone asks)
FCP 4.5
QuickTime 6.5.2 -
Copy the clip into track 2 so that you have two duplicate clips stacked one on top of the other. Apply the color corrector to the top clip and bring down the black level slightly. In your browser go video filters> matte> mask shape and apply the mask shape to the top clip. Double click the the top clip to open it in your viewer. Change the mask shape to oval. Check the invert box in the mask shape filter. You should now have an oval cut out of the darker layer essentialy highlighting a point on the untouched layer underneath. Adjust the oval’s parameters to get it where you want it and the size you want it. Hope this is clear and helpful.
Jason