Kang Stathroy
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Thanks for the reply Jason, I have done those steps to no avail…I just don’t get it. However I’m using a brand new MacPro at work, not sure of the exact specs right now and I’ve still had problems with things like playing simple titles on black. Yesterday I threw a couple of stills in and put a quick dip to white on both of them, plus a simple move on each. The stills were 800x something, just placeholders, and I was dropping frames on that as well. So the consensus among those with more knowledge than I is that it’s codec related, there were quite a few people who thought using the ProRes codec would be better but because of the larger storage sizes required that was rejected. On the Macbook other than the titles not playing and the stills I’ve done some fairly complex things, like 5 box P in Ps and stuff like that and it’s been fine. Do you have any experience with this codec? (XDCAM EX)
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Thanks for the response, all is well in terms of being Extended (Journaled), the drive is actually brand new. The read/write tests seem to be normal so I don’t think it’s the drive…maybe my system just doesn’t have the power for this, no one has said they are actually editing in this configuration so that could be it?
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I didn’t change anything so RAID 0 is what the default is I believe.
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I have the studio 2.
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Thanks for the response…I ran the test and was getting 80ish write and 100ish read levels using the 1920×1080 10 bit setting, 128 mb file size. I assume this is pretty much normal?
EDIT: I tried the 16 GB setting as well and got a 88/106 reading. -
If that’s the case I think i’d be better off with this plug in, I think Apple should incorporate it (or something like it) directly into FCP, it’s really easy to use.
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I’ll be damned. I’m not sure how I avoided doing things in the order you described but somehow that escaped me. Perhaps not enough coffee this morning? As for everyone else I”m sure it was the way I was describing the problem…not as simplified as I could have been I guess. But….thanks!
EDIT: although if you had to do it a lot it would make a lot of extra nests in the project…which is where the DH plug in might come in handy. You have to make a new “nest” every time, right? -
Exactly what I needed, bought it and it works perfectly. Thanks for your help everyone! I highly recommend this product also, makes making boxes etc a snap.
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“SO you are talking putting a PnP, then resizing the PnP so that it basically zooms into the video clip, but keeps the same PnP dimensions? Good question. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is to resize and crop, because I haven’t done this before. Surely someone will have a better answer.”
Exactly, that’s what I’m trying to do. I’ve been getting around it via cropping and moving the clip in the motion tab which is no big deal, just the Avid way is less steps so I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. I’ve been on Avid for 13 years, FCP for 3 but there are still things I’m trying to figure out. I’ve tried making the motion favorite, but that doesn’t allow me to resize within that effect.
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Thanks for the reply! I do have that part of the process down, I’m more trying to figure out how to achieve something like the step in/out in Avid within FCP…In Avid I can put a p in p effect on a clip, step into it, put a resize on it and move the clip around or resize it WITHIN the p in p effect and not change the p in p at all, the shape remains the same but what is inside it can be altered, if this makes any sense! Is there a way to do this in FCP? thanks for your help!!