Mark Raudonis
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COW Coins
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If you have “dupe detection” turned on in ANY of your sequences… turn it OFF! This will often cause the kind of slow downs you’re describing. It’s also a good idea to turn off thumbnails and waveforms in the timeline if you can live without those features.
Keep in mind, even if you do not have a sequence open, and it has dupe detection on, you will experience this kind of slow down. Therefore, go through your entire project and check the status of each sequence… no dupe detect should be on anywhere.
Good luck.
Mark
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We’ve purchased probably 10 lacie drives over the last year. Four of the Terrabyte biggies and the rest in the 250 range. We’ve had at least a 40% failure rate. We will not be buying any more Lacie drives.
Mark
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https://bssc.sel.sony.com/BroadcastandBusiness/DisplayResource?m=0&sm=0&p=16&sp=112&id=74780&d=10001
Here’s a place to start.
Mark
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Make sure that you do NOT have “dupe detection” turned on for ANY of the timelines (sequences) contained in your project. Even if these timelines are not open or loaded, they will slow down your performance and create the kind of problems you’re describing. This issue grows worse with the longer your timeline and the more tabs you have open.
You also may want to turn off thumbnails images within the timeline and audio waveforms.
Mark
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Make sure that you have “dupe detection” turned off in ALL of your timelines in this large project. Even if it’s on in a timeline that’s not open, this can significantly slowdown your timeline. You may also want to turn off all “screen redraw” features like thumbnails, audio waveforms etc.
We regularly work with one hour timelines using multiple tracks (Picture within picture), grfx etc. accessing thousands of hours of storage via x-san. The only time we’ve had this kind of unacceptable slowness was due to the “dupe detection” being on. Turning it off made all the difference in the world.
Good luck.
Mark
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Alts,
You took eight lines to rant about my two line response. Who’s wasting bandwidth here?
mark
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Reality check here, please. Aren’t we in the business of communication? Hasn’t this thread generated more action than anything else this week? Like it or hate it, this guy has gotten you to react with passion about what he’s doing. In my book, that is what we do for a living. We use all our tricks and skills to get people to FEEL SOMETHING from watching our work. Clearly, this clever editor has gotten all of you pissed off to the max. To me, that’s worth a $5 dollar donation. I pay pal’d him yesterday.
Call it entertainment. Pay per view. Whatever. Me thinks you’re all a bit jealous you didn’t think of this yourself.
Until the next entertaining scam…
Mark
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Bob,
Wait until FCP 5 comes out and do a test. This is something that you need to see for your self in operation with your proposed workflow. There arer a tremendous amount of options available. You’ve just got to determine what’s right for you. Good luck.
Mark
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[Jason Adams] “I know which file is being replaced, this file is just being updated and is not truely offline – the file still exists and in the same exact location.”
Jason,
To you it may be the same file… but to the FCP data base, it’s a new file.
My best advice to you is to not go “too deep” in folders with the media organization so that the reconnect process goes quicker.
Good luck.
Mark
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It sounds like your project is missing the folder from which the clip came. If that’s the case, then shift F will not work. FCP can’t find a folder that doesn’t exist in that project. If you want the match function to open the folder from where the clip came from, that folder must be in the current open project.
mark