[Jonny Cates]

Thanks Dave! I will do so…

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Dave
Are you suggesting that my rendering issue may be something else, other than HI-Rez stills?

jc

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Mark….As a matter of fact, yes I am using a lot of medium to HI-REZ stills. And nearly every one has a motion added to them (Ken Burns effect).

This is one project that required a lot of stills from another photographer. Since there were so many, I reduced them to a meduim REZ using iPhoto’s batch process….but even still, the DPI did not change, only the width and height did. They are still 300dpi but now much smaller in inches. They were extremely large in width and height originally, and I thought by batch processing them in iPhoto would reduce the DPI as well. It did not. It only reduced the measurements.

I don’t have a lot of experience using this many stills at one time. I’ve used a few in the past and I changed them manually “one by one” to about 150dpi.

Is this the reason why I can’t hold a render? What should the REZ be?

Thanks so much…

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Thanks Don…I figured this might be FCP filter/render issue.
At this point, and with all the controversy…I’m not certain where to go in program editing since Apple threw everybody under the bus.

I don’t really want to go to FCPX. Maybe Premier?

Thanks again….

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Dave….I don’t have a RAID. I don’t even have a drobo. All my scratch drives are chained up with either firewire or USB 2. Very slow ya know doing 1920 x 1080. I can get by on standard def OK, but still sluggish. I need to max out my intel core 3.06 duo to 8 gb ram…only have 4gb. faster graphic card would help as well.
I really need a faster machine at this point.

I simply shut everything down, and restarted. All seems well at this point. Thanks for the digital rebellion ap advice. I need that. I have FCP rescue 5… but have not need it recently.

“Would you recommend a RAID for the system like I have?”

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Shane…

I was actually wrong about the amount of memory I have. I do have 4gb – not 2. I was mixed up with another machine I have. But the rest of my info is correct.

I assume this “slowness” would still be attributed to the lack of more ram, huh?

Thanks….

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Thanks for the info Dave. I see yet another, external hard drive in my future.

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Shane… the clip I was testing is 10 seconds long. It’s size before conversion is 45.4MB. After, 363MB.

Original clip info…

Dimensions: 1920 x 1080
Codecs: H.264, AAC, two channels
Color Profile: HD (1-1-1)
Duration: 00:10
Audio Channels: 2
Total bit rate: 35,350
Movie Information: JVC

FPS on camera was 60i

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

This sounds like a great idea…small or large projects. I will check out the video…

Thanks

Jonny Cates

[Jonny Cates]

Yes, about 80gb of it is H.264 and the rest is AVCHD (Apple Intermediate Codec, Linear PCM, Timecode). The only real space I have left on one of my drives is about (1) TB.

This main project gets the attention first – 160GB. The others I will edit later. So all in all, I have close to 400 GB combined.

Thanks for the input…

Jonny Cates