[Jeremy Garchow]

[Nick Westbridge] “an someone tell me the difference between these two, and if I’d be alright going with the less expensive one:
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This is from a post a couple of days ago. It pays to search the forums.

[Sean ONeil] “ECC is for servers to give extra stability, but the performance is severly decreased. For graphics and editing, you want quality non-ECC.”

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Congratulations on your purchase. you will be much happier with the PowerMac fro FCP over the iMac.

Crucial is rally the way to go as it is tried, tested, and recommended. RAM is not really the place to skimp on your computer as bad RAM can cause headaches. Crucial backs all of their RAM up and will take it back if you aren’t happy. I am in the states so I don’t know a Canadian company for you, but you might want to search the archives of this forum. I seem to remember somebody talking about where they could get some nice Canadian sold RAM 😉 http://www.transintl.com has also been recommended.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

The full version of Boris Graffitti will allow you to drop your video into a well, and it’ll open up in Graffitti with your bg video.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

No, you shouldn’t put osx on your scratch disk, but you can still repair permissions your boot disk that has OSX. Quit FCP and do that, but I doubt that’s the issue here.

Did you delete your render files? Perhaps something is fouled up in one of the old render files.

If there’s nothing special about the clip that gives you the message, then why does it have to render?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you are in 10 bit (and probably even 8 bit) and you have to render your entire sequence for some reasons that you aren’t mentioning, like you have a widescreen filter to make the letterbox, or perhaps you don’t have the anamorphic settings correct and FCP is doing the heavy lifting on your anamorphic sd footage requiring a render or heavy graphics/text/cc/composting, 79 gigs might not be enough. Free up some space if you can. A good way to start is to quit FCP and go to your scratch disk and see how big the render files folder is for that project your are working on. Deleting render files is a good and safe way to gain some much needed space on your hard drive. Be warned that once they are deleted and you open FCP again, you will need to rerender. You can also use the render manager in the tools menu to delete render files as well.

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

I’m sorry, I misread your post, I thought you were exporting, not rendering, although if your whole sequence needs to be rendered it’s just like exporting the whole thing.

What resoltuion and frame rate are you working in?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hi.

If you want the clip under 20.5, and you got it down to 16, what’s wrong?

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Try trashing your preferences. This will usually take care of general errors in fcp 4.5.

Use this to do it. It’s free.

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Depends on what codec, frame rate, and resolution you are using…

This fee app will help you do the calculations:

https://www.aja.com/ajashare/AJA_Data_Rate_Calculator_v1.1.1.app.zip

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 5.02 <> Kona 2
ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

This is probably the best, most plain language way to start your foray into the media manager.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.html

Jeremy