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Joseph Hung
November 29, 2011 at 5:11 pm in reply to: Render error: insufficient disk space

Hi Zoe, that is correct. You generally want to keep your “Final Cut Pro Documents” on the external drive, known as your “Scratch Drive.” FCP Docs include your Capture Scratch, Audio Render, Autosave Vault, Render Files, Thumbnail and Waveform Cahes.
Then opposite this, you should run your applications from your computer’s harddrive, known as your startup disk. This is where you should also keep and run your FCP project files. I keep my files in a folder on my desktop.
Make sure that you are setting your FCP Documents to be linked to your external harddrive, in your system preferences. As you build more projects, you might be using several external hdds. Make sure you reset your system prefs everytime you connect a new drive to work off of.
Hope this helps.

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Joseph Hung
November 28, 2011 at 3:19 am in reply to: How to work with an MP4 clip unrendered on the time line

Then I think you should have Compressor too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen FCP7 not as a part of Final Cut Suite 2. I could be wrong. If you don’t have it, you should reinstall from the disks so that you have Compressor, it’s a decent enough program. The nicest thing about it is that you can set up batch processing, whereas MPEG Streamclip does not.

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Joseph Hung
November 28, 2011 at 1:46 am in reply to: How to work with an MP4 clip unrendered on the time line

It would be best to include your system specs in your posts. If you are working with Final Cut Suite 2 or earlier, Compressor is part of the whole package. If you are working with FCPX, Compressor is now a separate purchase.
MPEG Streamclip will do the job perfectly for you, and for free.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 11:54 pm in reply to: How to work with an MP4 clip unrendered on the time line

Zoe, in order to help you, you need to give us information. Where did you get the MP4 from? Is there an original format out of the camera for instance? If you can, use the original format (straight outta the camera) and transcode using Log & Transfer in FCP, or other means. If you can’t do that, then drop the MP4 into Compressor and apply the codec you want, submit it and go get a coffee. You can also use MPEG Streamclip, it’s free and does an excellent job of transcoding at high resolutions. Do a single short clip as a test to make sure your workflow is good, so you’re not wasting time transcoding a whole lotta clips when it is not good.
Do a Google search or search on this forum and others, this question has been answered many times.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 11:25 pm in reply to: J.J Abrams Lens Flare

Nice I never saw that. Cool to see it was equal parts, optically on lens as well as in post for shots they didn’t have control to add it on set, such as CG. I couldn’t find what anamorphic lenses they were using, that would be nice to know.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 11:05 pm in reply to: Video becomes out of focus when adding new layers in FCP

Glad it is fixed. I wouldn’t use that codec, ProRes is far more efficient and best editing codec for FCP. Doing GS stuff requires as much information as possible, so the highest resolution codec would be optimal. Of course this depends on your system and whether it can handle the throughput. AT the very least, I would transcode from the original acquisition codec, whatever that camera does I don’t know what it is, to Apple ProRes 422. HQ is optimal but requires at least 220 MB/s throughput, so 422 or even 422 LT should be fine.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Final Cut Pro Playback in Low Res?

Sounds like this could be several different issues at play here. First, I’ve had problems with PNG files in FCP, so I avoid them. I use TIFFs or hires JPGs. In a full 1080 sequence JPGs are usually fine as long as they are hi res. Also the frame dims of the image sequence should be optimal. This means your stills (PNGs) should be close or exactly your sequence dims. FCP will handle them better.
I’m also not so sure about your workflow. Why are you transcoding to an Image Sequence with Quicktime? A single video file will be more efficient. I don’t know Maya, but can you output video clips that are optimal for FCP, such as ProRes?
This could also be a limitation in hardware. Are you loading the Maya material to a scratch disk that is external that has enough throughput to handle it, then importing into FCP? Where FCP is reading the files from could be giving you problems too, even though you don’t see a dropped frames warning. Also, keep your number of video tracks at a minimum, this eats up throughput.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Performance tips for FCP7?

Software RAID control is still being administered by the computer’s CPUs. A hardware based card will have it’s own CPU to administer the RAID control and throughput, so in my case, I think it sped things up a little in rendering (I keep everything on the scratch, render files, capture, etc, and the project file on my startup disk), but I never tested it, just noticing the difference through usage.
I think if you moved your scratch externally and connecting via card and high speed interface you might see an improvement. Of course this costs $$$ to do, and based on a hunch? I don’t have hard numbers, I just have observations.
The difference in times seems negligible, and something you might just have to live with. My only question is why 22 video tracks? Not sure if this would make a difference, but maybe collapsing down to as few video tracks as possible? Coupled with codec change, and there might be a bigger difference? The more video tracks being used also dictates throughput and real time editing.
In the end, faster CPUs, cores, etc is the answer I think. I’m toying with the plan of upgrading to the fastest tower that I can afford and let that ride for as long as possible. My current setup is dependent on compatibility, and I’m afraid that I’ll have to rebuild the RAID, cards, etc. if anything changes with the MP, whether it be form factor rumors or a complete halt to the line. I’m hoping that I can hold out with the rumored “last” MP compatible with my current setup and by the time I need to upgrade I’ll be in a position to do a complete hardware rebuild.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 10:05 pm in reply to: Final Cut Pro Playback in Low Res?

We need more information to help. Output codec? Sequence settings? System specs? The file format coming out of Maya might not be optimal, and your system/FCP may not be able to handle it.

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Joseph Hung
November 27, 2011 at 10:01 pm in reply to: Video becomes out of focus when adding new layers in FCP

Is it completely rendered at 100%? Blend settings? Sequence settings? Codecs? I’m confused as to why a slug layer would actually fix this problem. More info please.

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