[Joel Colthorpe]

I’m having the same problem too..

I’m using XDCAM EX + 5D Stuff and on both it’s rendering the whole source file instead of just my trimmed clip sent from Final Cut.

I have tried with handles set and not set.
I just rendered with a 00:00:01:00 handle and it is still playing through the whole source as it renders.

Surely this is a common problem..? It did this straight out of the box. I haven’t fiddled with anything weird at all.

[Joel Colthorpe]

Thanks Heaps Rafael,

I did that and my WD studio II with 200gb free is reading and writing at around 80 MB/s. The other one with 100GB free is clocking 65MB/s ??

Not sure if that’s just due to the drive being more loaded..

My on board drive with only 50GB free however is getting about 65MB/s which is the same as my esata connected WD studio which is set in a RAID 0 configuration with more available space. The 2 disks in the enclosure are 500GB too, as apose to the onboard drive which is one big 640GB Hmm..

Thanks heaps, that software will be great as I play around and try to get this baby pumping!

Cheers!

[Joel Colthorpe]

Ok great. So basically all I do is open the sequence settings on a sequence that is set up for HDV, and change just the ‘compressor’ setting to Prores422?

Just tried that, it is faster by about 30-40% but I still can’t get realtime playback at full quality.
I set the timeline to unlimited RT and I can only get smooth playback if I reduce the quality down to medium.

Should I expect full quality playback with this workflow considering the machine I’m running on or am I kidding myself? And is it normal for compressor to take 17.5hrs on a 50min HDV sequence to DVD encode?

Just trying to work out if there is something wrong with my computer..
Thanks for your help, that has already sped up my workflow either way!

Cheers!

[Joel Colthorpe]

Thanks Raf,

Thanks for the help so far.

Can I just ask how to do that what your saying point for point?
I’m not quite sure what you mean by conforming the sequence to the footage, if I then change the sequence codec to prores? Doesn’t that then unconform the sequence settings from the footage?

What steps do I take to do exactly what you are saying?

* Just ran a test sequence off using HDV in a prores sequence and it still took 8 mins for 1 min of footage.

[Joel Colthorpe]

Hi Raf,

I always thought you had to set your sequence settings up to match the footage you are working with? Not true?

Can I assume that rendering in HDV is a lot slower than a prores render can I? I know HDV is a heavy codec, thus why ‘smoothcam’ struggles with it I suppose but I thought it could do better than this.

I am outputting to DVD eventually so what would you recommend is a good sequence setting for this workflow? Prores?

I should maybe point out also that compressor is taking 17.5hrs to encode a 50min HDV sequence from Final Cut for DVD. Is that normal? Even off 1 core that seems slow to me.

So HDV is slow, but regardless, should FCP be able to give me faster render times than this? Or is this normal for HDV in FCP? I was concerned because it just didn’t seem normal to me and I work with XDCAM EX footage as well and haven’t noticed that it is much faster (if at all).

Thanks for your response.

Joel