Jason Porthouse
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Apple PIP – Properly Integrated Post!
No?
I’ll get my coat.
J
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Like someone before mentioned – if you’re running 2 graphics cards, don’t. Take one out.
Next you might want to try losing RAM. I know, counter intuitive. But I’ve tried it and it seems to work. I think this instability is a RAM issue within FCP, and for some reason minimising RAM actually seems to help stability issues in the machines I’ve tried it on.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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No, I’m with you on this one Ben. I’m gonna jump into the new FCP head first when it arrives, I’ve had enough of the naysayers and doom mongers. And to them I say; if I fall flat on my face, feel free to suck air through your teeth, tut reproachfully and say ‘Well we knew it wouldn’t work!’
Full speed ahead and damn the icebergs – for England, FCP and Saint Jobs!!
JP
*perhaps I should lay off the coffee*
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Carrot, anyone? 😉
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’m currently cutting a doc with about 700 gigs of media, mostly XDCam EX720p50. We’re using Calibrated Software’s MP4 plugin for FCP, and I’ve had very few crashes in the time we’ve been cutting. Project size is about 20megs.
I too have had terrible problems cutting XDCam EX1080 and 720 when converted with Sony’s software tool, but short of transcoding to Pro-Res there’s not a lot you can do. Turn off all thumbnails; turn off any thumbs in the timeline; make sure your drives aren’t too full. Set autosave to 5 mins and cross your fingers…
Seriously though, I think it is media, rather than project size that matters. I’ve had some big projects (100 megs +) that have been rock solid, if a little slow in opening, but with DV media (offline for eventual uncompressed SD online).
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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A Panasonic pro plasma, or indeed one of the newer LCDs with good color management systems from Samsung or even Sony, should get you in the ballpark for calibration PROVIDED you get them set up by a calibrator – someone from ISF or the like. When I say ballpark, I’m talking maybe 90% there compared to a FSI or other similar monitor. This will mean any grading ‘sins’ should be ones of omission, provided you know what you’re doing with regard to scopes etc. You should be able to do this for around 1k, maybe a little more.
You could consider renting something like an FSI for the duration. Probably only cost a few hundred dollars.
Whatever you do, you’ll need a broadcast output card – MXO2, Blackmagic or Kona…Json
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Uhhh, were kinda shooting blind here without a screenshot – but if I were a betting man I’d say you’re looking at the footage on your Mac monitor, and not on an external monitor. If this is true, it may be simple interlacing. This is normal, especially if your canvas is set to 100%.
If this is the case, don’t worry. Depending on your deliverables, there are ways to eliminate this.
BTW can you see this on moving footage or is it only visible when paused?
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’ll chip in a suggestion for the Panasonic GH2, or GH1 with hacked firmware. 24p 1080 in the case of the GH1. Stunning quality.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’d point the finger at FCP vs. XDCam. Many haven’t had any trouble, but many have.
Assuming you’ve no stomach for converting all the XDCam to ProRes – you can do the following…
Turn off thumbnails in the browser and timeline if you have them on. Edit in a ProRes sequence with rendering set to ProRes, and if you really want to be radical, strip the extra RAM out of your machine. I know it sounds crazy, but I know of at least 2 people who’ve done this with very good results.
As an aside, call up the Activity Monitor whilst you’re in FCP and have a look at the system memory. On all the machines I’ve had problems with, the free memory has diminished till the crash happens. Dunno why but it’d be interesting to see if yours does this too…
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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They call me the psychic editor. I know the cuts before even the director does….
Seriously though, this is the identical problem we encountered with a doc. The director had copied the files over, but not in the same structure – XDCam is VERY precise about this. For future ref, you’ll see that the top of the directory tree has a ‘BPAV’ folder. Now people logically think ‘it’s no good copying this, else I’ll overwrite the file with the next card’ – but what you need to do is make a folder manually for the card (call it ‘ShootXCardX’ or however you want to identify it) and then copy the entire card folder structure in to this.
Without the BPAV file and everything that’s in it, neither FCP using Log & Transfer, or the Sony XDCam Transfer tool, will work. All the media is there, but not the directory structure necessary to see it.
So use the Calibrated plugin, and follow the tutorial on their site and you’ll be good to go.
Next up, tomorrows winning lottery numbers.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*