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Jay Evs
March 3, 2011 at 6:56 am in reply to: Is it worth the extra $$$ for 2.3GHz over 2.2Ghz?

great, thanks again for all the input guys.

re the 128 Gig, doesn’t the full Final Cut Studio (including all content for all software), only come to 40 Gig or so? I am using Final Cut Studio 2, as far as I can remember the whole install was around 40-50 gig.

I dont use my computer for any other applications, apart from small ones i..e VLC and Wiretap.
Jay Evs
March 2, 2011 at 10:30 am in reply to: Is it worth the extra $$$ for 2.3GHz over 2.2Ghz?

Thanks for the replies.

As for the bottleneck: There is the new thunderbolt connection, and Lacie is bringing/has brought out a “Little Big Disk” with thunderbolt, so should be no speed lost there??!!
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 2:30 pm in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

yes, i have an external striped RAID 4TB, firewire 800.
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

yep absolutely sure. i know this is weird, thats why im also confused.

does anyone else in these forums have a NEX-VG10?
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

what do you mean by having my capture scratch set up properly?

I put the files exported from streamclip into exactly the same location in the scratch as where the L & T puts them. yet they behave differently.
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 2:18 pm in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

no the origina files are indeed the same size at 1920 X 1080
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 11:36 am in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

im using log and transfer which brings the clips in from the camera’s ACVHD format and automatically converts to pores 422.

Im not sure why the Streamclip Prores 422 files are larger, i am converting from prores 422 to prores 422 (just normal full quality settings, not prores LT or HQ). I assumed that maybe streamclip has different settings somewhere to apple which made a different file size.
Jay Evs
February 15, 2011 at 10:01 am in reply to: Prores 422 Optimized by MPEG Streamclip?

I know it sounds weird, but after using log and transfer i am not satisfied with how the clips scroll i.e. when i scroll through them with the mouse, its smooth but not liquid smooth. it lags.

But, kind of by trial and error, i realised that if i put those clips from log and transfer through MPEG Streamclip (and yes i know this compresses them again but i cant tell the difference in quality), the clips then became much more responsive.
Jay Evs
February 8, 2011 at 9:50 am in reply to: FCP running slow… my specs to blame?

thanks for the reply.

Codec: actually i tried both h.264 and prores clips, and they seemed to be lagging the same amount. I thought converting the h.264 clips to prores would improve things but it didnt.

The drive is an internal Intel ESB2 AHCI, 500GB. Im assuming 7200 rpm, definitely not solid state, its too old for that.
Jay Evs
December 14, 2010 at 12:51 pm in reply to: How to get into “different” video work??

Wow I didnt expect this many great replies in just a couple of days.

Many, many thanks for all your great tips. Im on it….

Cheers,

jay