[Jimmyv]

It’s always a good idea to read the manual…

Motion will have to analyze the whole movie file for the section you want to retime, so if you’re retiming a 6 seconds subclip of a longer movie clip then it will analyze every frame.

If the clip is only 6 seconds there should only be 150 (pal) frames to analyze.

Workflow is the following:

Set in and out points on clip to retime in viewer.

Select File: Export : Quicktime Movie

Make sure recompress all frames and make movie self contained are deselected

Import the resulting QT movie and drop on timeline

Set speed – deselect frame blending

Send to motion

Go to clip proerties, select timing: frame blending : optical flow.

Wait for it to analyze movie (a 6 sec clip takes about 8 minutes on my MB Pro)

Save and jump back to FCP

render and off you go.

Write 400 lines. “I will read the manual, I will read the manual, I will read the manual”

Good luck!

[Jimmyv]

The solution is simple.

Open System Prefs / Apple Qmaster

If Sharing is on click stop sharing.

Select “Share this computer as: Quickcluster with services”

Start sharing.

Now it should work. At least it did for me.

Good luck.

James

[Jimmyv]

Yes, I’m on a MacBook Pro Core Duo.

That’s the card. I’m in the UK, it’s on the Applestore UK site, but not the US one. Although the photo looks different from the reality the spec is correct and it’s working fine for me. As I pointed out, it’s only been a couple of days though…

If you’ve not yet bought the drives ( I had a couple of existing D2 drives to use), then it might be worth considering the eSata path, it’s way faster than even firewire, and not necesssarily more expensive, check out this review: https://www.barefeats.com/hard71.html

Good luck

James

[Jimmyv]

I’ve just bought (it arrived yesterday) the Nitro AV firewire 800 expresscard/34 from the Applestore. I’ve set it up with two lacie 300Gb drives in a RAID0 config and it seems to be working fine. Only thing to watch out for is that it’s very easy ‘unclick’ from the expresscard port when plugging in / unplugging drives, so to be on the safe side I’m shutting down to plug things in.

Quickbench is giving me 88Mb/s sustained read and 47Mb/s writes (in comparison my internal drive – 100Gb/7200rpm gives 43Mb/s for both).

Will post an update after a few days’ testing with FCP!