[Joe Jennings]

Thanks,
I am trying it now. How long is suppose to take? I have waited 5 minutes now and the empty trash icon appears to be continuing to empty trash but not making any progress. The blue bar is stagnant around 1/3 of the full bar, but still appears to emptying trash.

joe

[Joe Jennings]

A secure empty trash??????? not sure if i know what you mean

[Joe Jennings]

Tried. No Luck. it’s 2.9GB in size,
would be nice to get rid of it.

finder can’t locate it either
weird!

[Joe Jennings]

Thanks everybody!
I am now editing on a 2X 2.26 GHz 8core mac pro with 12GB of RAM. Newest version of Final Cut studio as well.
I think I created the quick cluster in qmaster correctly. I referred to the activity monitor and saw processors working in what appeared to be multi-cores?? The first time it did it I only saw one number running at 800%, the second time…I think it was 6 diff. lines, each reading over 200%.

Encoded 30 min of HD footage to mpeg with audio in 20 min or so. So much faster than before.

thanks
joe

[Joe Jennings]

I will apologize in advance as my response will be elementary.
I am not sure what video codecs are? If that is what I shot…it’s Canon xl h1s @ 24p.(1440X1080) I shot to HD mini DV.
Not sure what my drive configurations are either. Just upgraded to 2X2.26 mac pro 8 core with 12GB RAM. My HD is only 640GB with probably 400GB available.
Also just changed over to the most recent version to Final Cut Studio from version 5.1 FCP.
I was not having any issues within the older version and was editing on Mac book pro with external HD 1TB in size.

If you would’t mind going back to the very basics with me, it would be greatly appreciated.
I am only just getting back to editing. I learned on final cut 3 back around 2002 and besides so much change in tech. my memory is shot. I never did that much editing anyway.

thanks
joe

[Joe Jennings]

Thanks again.
Took your advice. I knew I needed to get organized, just a matter of actually doing it.
I will probably eventually check out your dvd on the subject matter, but for now I just created a few more folders appropriate to the project in my documents.

Now, I seem to be having another issue. Dropped fames during playback, says need to try a list of things. Top of the list…turning off unlimited RT (mine is set to safe already, don’t understand that), then it’s changing my compression rate…which I am not quite sure how to do??? But all thats for a different post I realize.

Is there anything you can tell me about that, before I post the question again?
thanks

[Joe Jennings]

Thanks Shane.
It seems to work. What about files in other locations? like logos stored on the desktop. I tried to just re-import the files into the project and it doesn’t seems to work that way. It seems that I can only locate files in one directory at a time. Unless you can search more than one at a time or after I locate some, then go back and do others. After I reconnect some of the files and it opens the project, how can you go back to reconnect? Is it simply in the FCP menus?
thanks

[Joe Jennings]

thanks
q-master is something completely new to me as well.
I think i have a general idea what can do, but i think i compressor restricted to my computer only. It took forever for my 30 sec test video clip.

I had watched a tutorial on setting up virtual clusters. Is that what you have to do to make it work faster?

How does q-master actually work?

[Joe Jennings]

thanks for the info