[Luke Price]

Thanks for your responses Shane & John, it’s as I feared then.

[Luke Price]

Thanks Joe,

Just did a test and it did indeed export a 4K file as needed.

Thanks,

Luke

[Luke Price]

Great news Job, thanks.

[Luke Price]

Thanks for help guys.

I did the updates and permissions Jeff, then migrated some non-FCS stuff across.

Anders, it would seem I’m looking at a whole clean install – arrgg!

Well better safe than sorry I guess.

[Luke Price]

Thanks Aharon, I’m using After Effects for the first time ever and you have just saved the day.

Cheers

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID

[Luke Price]

Here, here.

Thank you Walter. You are an inspiration.

[Luke Price]

This might not be the MOST efficient way on FCP but this could be a little faster if I have understood what you trying to do.

1) Hit CTRL+V to create an edit at the playhead.
2) Click the section you want to lose and SHIFT+BACKSPACE to ripple delete

Anyone else got a faster way?

Luke

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID

[Luke Price]

Rafael has a good suggestion here.

Mike if your primary need is just for an extended desktop this is a far more economical solution. But if you are looking for reliable video monitoring using your Plasma then Blackmagic will deliver.

Luke

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID

[Luke Price]

Sergio,

I’m cutting a weekly broadcast series shot on XDCAM HD and other HDV sources being converted to ProRes before I get to use them. Cutting on ProRes timelines has been a nightmare. The first 4 weeks of the show there were CONSTANT crashes and rendering anything was arduous at best. We are running 4 suites via Fibre Channel off a well managed 40TB RAID.

I started on week 5 and after doing a week of this I decided to cut on XDCAM HD timelines native to the source material. Still crashes when bolting the whole show together, but completely manageable.

We are then rendering out, through Compressor, ProRes Quicktime movies and re-importing these for our final playouts to SD and HD deliverables. This is working 99% of the time, occasionally we have a filter related problem which means we just re-render a chunk and that usually fixes it.

The system it’s self wasn’t setup or run by me and so there may be other suggestions as to why we are having some problems – though like I said, now manageable. We do have a lot of storage and huge amounts of footage gathered for this project over nearly 5 years on a multitude of formats. It’s not a time for ‘re-thinking’ the system.

Alex may well have the right answer for your project if it is relatively small and you have a quick suite, but I had to let you know my experience.

At the end of the day if you’re going to use ProRes to deliver to tape or whatever, then let your machine do the hard work of re-compressing it and save yourself the grief.

All the best

Luke
http://www.newbornadventure.com

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID

[Luke Price]

Wouldn’t a Multiclip Sequence create your base timeline?

1 Select your clips in the browser
2 Right+click (or CTRL+click) to bring up the men
3 Select ‘Make Multiclip Sequence’
4 In the pop up window select ‘Use Stating Timecode’ from the drop down at the top.

This will create a timeline starting with the timecode of the earliest source clip selected and the rest of the clips following it at the correct timecode locations with gaps in between.

Is that what you’re after?

Luke

Mac Pro Quad 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 2x7TB XServe RAID