Jeff Markgraf
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Well, that would have been too easy. AV is off. So that ain’t it, kid, that ain’t it. (Bonus points if you get the reference.)
Can’t pull the TB cable, since I need the PCI card cage for the Fiber raid card. Maybe I’ll try setting the tim line to something easy like HD and see if smooths the odd video stutters.
Anyone else want to weigh in on the audio Tourette’s and the beach balling?
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Well…I’m still at work, so I can’t check until later. I would assume I unchecked it, ’cause I’d have to be a numbskull to have A/V on if I’m not using it. But then I’ve been known to emulate Curly on many an occasion, so.. (nyuck, nycuk!)
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Hi Jeremy.
Not using the Kona card on this, as I’m still saving my $$ for a sweet FS monitor and it’s not worth borrowing a broadcast monitor for the initial edit. So I’m just putting the viewer on the second monitor. (FWIW, I’ve never had problems with X and the Kona, as long as the latest driver was installed.)
The footage is 5k, and the timeline is set based on the first video clip. So I know my format and frame rate are correct. And I’m working strictly in proxy mode, as the MBPro chokes on the Red raw files, (at least at 5k).
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LA Promo editing – hard to go out for less the $600/day. That’s at the client’s facility. I never work hourly. Day rate or a flat fee based on a week or more. Me on my system at my place on my own schedule: varies wildly, usually a flat rate. Edit and produce: more than $600, for sure. But less than hiring a writer/producer and editor separately.
I would expect a camera operator + camera + minimal portable 3-point lighting to go for no less than $1000 a day plus another 500-600 for a first assistant.
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Not sure how this fits into the sluggishness spectrum, but… (long post)
I have a large project, which is to say several hundred clips in an event in the library. Video is Red files, 5k, 23.98. All footage has proxies, generated from within FCP 10.1.1 (some files generated as far back as 10.0.9). Audio files are .wav. Audio & video made into synchronized clips for editing. No problems marking and synching the files (other than cursing the DP for not shooting an audio guide track on the Red, so I had to synch them all manually -grr!).
Finally started editing. Using Proxies. MacBook Pro 15″ retina. 16 gig ram. mid-level CPU. Not the latest, but one rev back. Files on G-speed, Raid 0, via fibre card in a Sonnet Echo PCI to Thunderbolt box. Viewer on 2nd computer screen via HDMI. USB audio in/out.
For the first time with FCP X, I’m getting fairly regular beach balling. Doing a lot of trimming, especially expanding audio to overlap, then collapsing back. Beach balls mostly when doing the audio stuff, especially if I move fast. Actual behavior: start to pull the end of the clip, nothing happens, audio often plays a frame or two repeating for a couple of seconds, then the beach ball, then everything catches up and is fine. Total time elapsed, less than 10 seconds. (Which seems like an eternity when I’m trying to finesse a cut.) Then all is well for at least several minutes. Then, seemingly at random, the lockup & beach ball again. Rinse and repeat for several hours.
Tried keeping the inspector window closed and changing timeline view to minimize video on the clips. No effect that I can detect. Haven’t tried switching to the simplest timeline view yet. Working with viewer on main monitor (default setup) doesn’t seem to help.
Interestingly, I sometimes see a lag in the video, almost like dropped frames stuttering, but very slight and not consistent. That shouldn’t be happening using proxy video in best performance mode.
None of this is fatal, just irritating. And my system has been very well-behaved up to this point, even using the broadcast out (Kona 3 in that same PCI to Thunderbolt box). Don’t remember if I upgraded to Mavericks or if it was already installed- did the first generation Retina 15″ come with ML or Mavericks?
Thoughts?
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Are we sure this isn’t just the infamous “Andy Branner” in a different guise?
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The A72 used 3.5″ disks for storage. Tied in great with the Axial 20/20 for complete control via the editor.
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Paul – your mystery CG would have been a Dubner 10k or 20k. Great CG, I liked it much better that a Chyron. It did basic shapes and lines and custom backgrounds animation long before Chyron got all fancy.
Jeff M.
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Hi Jeremy.
Downloaded Redcine-X Pro. Apparently many of the files don’t have audio after all. Interesting that FCP shows a “ghost” audio waveform on the silent files, but it doesn’t look like a typical audio waveform. Lots of spikes and blocks of square wave-looking stuff. Weird.
On the dropping frames note… I was led to believe that I should be able to play these files no sweat, at least on the “better performance” setting. So I’m a little puzzled at the poor playback. I’m also seeing FCP stall and beachball on this footage, requiring a restart. And Redcine will only play smoothly at the default 1/8 debayer. I wonder if 2k and 4k is OK, but 5k is just too much?
FWIW, the MacBook Pro is closed, feeding one monitor with TBolt/display port to DVI, and another monitor HDMI to DVI (for the 2nd monitor fullscreen viewer). The AJA disk speed utility reports about 374 M/sec from the raid.
Maybe I’m asking too much of this system?
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James, QT-X (or 10, or whatever the new one is called) does not recognize the R3D files. Maybe QT Pro?