Matthew Celia
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Did you open those video files in any other application? I had a similar thing happen to me, when I attempted to work on some shots in After Effects, and it ended up modifying the metadata of the file (and FCPX thought it was a different file).
Agreed though, one of the big features (ahead of a lot of others) for me would be some method of reconnecting and replacing media so that traditional workflows could be maintained.
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I often set the panning to the preset “Dialog” and that seems to work. I have noticed sometimes using the stereo left/right that no matter what the panning, it still wants to only play out of one speaker! I think it’s a bug…
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Ok, seems to not be sucking up memory, or causing my footage to disappear any more. I’m getting funky messages in the console (which I’ve been monitoring) which have to do with FigTime?
One of these days, I’d love to just pick the brain of an apple engineer for FCPX…
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Ok, still working on this. Seems like one issue gone and another presented itself. My 5th “Reel” mysteriously goes blank. I can hear the audio, but there is no video.
Also tried to reconnect to original media (didn’t help), duplicated the project, copied into a new sequence, exported XML and reimported (for a new project)…
*** sigh *** has anyone else run into this?
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I tried looking at the XML and found some interesting timecode errors on some stock footage clips I had imported and then slowed down. The frame rate seemed to be 24.003 and there were strange errors in the console like:
11/30/11 11:30:59.066 AM Final Cut Pro: WARN ONCE: timescale of 1000000000 gives non-integer ticks per frame for 23.976024 frames per second. Calculation for fractional part of frame is compromised.
I split up the film into separate projects and am going through each one to see where it starts sucking up crazy amounts of RAM. My first step is re-encoding the stock footage and making sure the timecode is accurate.
I sure miss the ability to reconnect right now :p
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Scratch that. Turning on FCPX, walked away to make coffee this morning, came back to find my startup disk was out of swap room (the swap was 60GB)
Back to the drawing board…
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I copied and pasted my entire sequence into a brand new project and all seems to be well! Thanks for the tip! Will let you know if any more funky-ness returns, but the render bar seems to be rendering the whole sequence and playback is silky smooth.
After removing Adobe Flash, trashing prefs, and regenerating render files, the whole program seems a bit snappier too.
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I do have some crazy compound clip action (mostly some multi-cam dance sequences that i’ve Synced and chopped up). I’ll try breaking those apart and simplifying them.
The most worrying thing is the footage that plays back fine in the browser and has played back fine in the timeline, suddenly has duplicate frames when stepping through…
It’s only annoying because I’m still learning how to troubleshoot the software. Tonight, when I’m back I’ll give an update.
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Excellent idea – I’ll try that tonight and see what I come up with.
I’ve already attempted:
– Duplicating the project
– Deleting titles (using a font that I suspected might be it)
– Rendering a ken burns style scene of stills to a quicktime and reimporting it (and then removing the stills from the project)
– Duplicating project AND event to an alternate driveNothing so far has worked.
I’ve also noticed that the clips that play back choppy are duplicating frames when i step through it. Maybe there is corruption in the proxy files FCPX has generated? Going to also try using the online files tonight and seeing if that helps.
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I posted this over on that post, but I am cutting a doc and have to say I’m most disappointed with the responsiveness of the timeline. While I save a lot of time being able to skim and look at the thumbnails, sometimes moving clips around in the timeline and zooming in and out can be a huge pain. I often work in list view, and switch the thumbnails off in the timeline (working either in capsule, or audio only mode). It helps a little bit.
Just FYI, I’m on a 3.4 Ghz i7 with 16GB ram, 2GB ATI card. I bet the bottleneck in my system is the drive, however. (FW800 G-Raid). To help, I am cutting with proxy files, so the video is always flawless, but when it comes to the slow responsiveness of the NLE, I have to wonder if having a Pegasus Raid would speed things up.
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