[John Graves]

Yes, that’s very true. However, I’ve already done that.

I dragged other filters onto the clip and they didn’t show up either. Surprise, rebooting solved the problem! Now all my filters are showing.

-John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

Yeah, that’s an excellent suggestion about using ripple and roll, I’ll have to learn that. However, my method of splitting a 48 min project into 5 reels is working marvelously.

I’ve run into problems of this sort on audio NLE DAWs too. It’s a common problem that when your edit starts getting too big or too long, system performance begins to really sag…

thanks for wonderful advice!

BY the way, my media is on SCSI 160 drives, also a little bit of firewire 400

-john

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

I’ve discovered this whole long-running issue on all the forums, and I’ve been reading all of the proposed solutions intensively. I am probably in one of the worst possible situations with regard to PVFD. Still, the project seemed manageable up until today. The client was here and the PVFD delays were unearthly. In one case well over 30 minutes for a single wait time. MOst of the waits were well in excess of 5 minutes. We had to call the session off until I can get this fixed.

I have been cutting another project, a full 5-reel feature, a very complex edit, for 3 years and NEVER had PVFD problems like this! The feature has gone SMOOTHLY because the captured takes were all short, in most cases a minute or less. Also, each of the reels never exceeded 22 minutes.

From what I can ascertain, I have the following problems which are contributing severely to PVFD on my current project:

1. The whole sequence is 48 minutes long.
2. The initial captures were huge. There are only 4 clips in the whole thing, the first two captures were about 1 hour 25 mins EACH. It’s a psychiatry session, so there are no breaks or slates in between, the material is running continuously. Still, if I’d known I’d have found a way to digitize in chunks.
3. I am using FCP3 with a gig of ram on a G4.
4. There are title renders throughout the whole thing. Simple, but burdensome.

I am certain I can improve the situation. It should be easy to break the 48 min cut into 3 smaller sequences. I don’t mind printing them individually, breaks are fine, no nesting required. I have upped the amount of assigned ram and I’m going to try some tests to see if PVFD improves.

best

-John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

excellent.-j

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

Thank you, it works. My compliments.

-JCG

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

No, it’s the exact same footage from the same tape. ABOVE the clip, huh? In the manual it sez Below the clip.

will check, thanks.

-John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

But…it doesn’t work. NO color bar indicating dupe frames is visible at the bottom of the video segment in the timeline…??? I can’t figure out how to get this dupe frame indicator to work…

-John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

Hey wait a minute, in the FCP 4.5 manual VOL 1, I see on pg 499 “keep track of duplicate frames”. This is all I need to get me well started with handling dupe negative.

-John

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

OK, here’s what I found this afternoon in FCP 4.5 HD. The export command provides the option.

File>Export>Cinematools film lists

include the following checked item: dupe list
CLick OK to save under your specified directory.

Fine so far.

But then I get a dialogue box that asks:

“Where is the Cinematools database?”

I see a Cinematools Icon in the folder, but it is greyed out. It is only an application, not a database.

HOw can I access the Cinematools database??

“Life is good, as long as it doesn’t take up too much of my time.”

-Gene

[John Graves]

I don’t have a modify-etikett command in FCP 3. COuld you expand more on this explanation?

My plan now is to borrow a firewire drive from a friend with an FCP4, load my vid files onto it, and go over to his place and use the duplicate clip function from FCP4. BUt I would still prefer to do this in FCP3.

danke

-John