Michael Black fcp
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I’m using a Mac Pro, 2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core with 8GB of RAM.
I ended up having to break the project apart and basically clear out everything that was in my Browser. I know have a project with three separate sequences and only the bare minimum of video being used.
This is an animated feature and I was trying to keep the animatic sequence nested in a sequence with various revisions of every shot on top of one another going from layout, to blocking, to animation to color. Needless to say, it was getting a little bogged down with all the shots, not to mention a pretty densely packed 24 tracks of audio.
So I cut the movie into three pieces, tossed out the animatic video layer, and it runs much quicker now. Not to mention it takes half the time to open and autosave is barely noticeable now (autosave used to take about 15-20 seconds).
So lesson learned… “keep it simple, stupid”.
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Totally did the trick! Thanks!
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I briefly had this problem last week. In inexplicably went away but it was quite a pain in the ass for a couple of days.
I wish I could tell you what I did. Wished really hard?
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I agree that it’s odd. Ideally, I should be able to import image sequences into FCP and it’s not like the technology is beyond its capabilities, especially since Motion recognizes them so easily. At the very least, I should be able to bounce them over to FCP via Motion somehow, without having to render hundreds of quicktimes that will only serve to fill up my hard drive even further.
I mean, if you’re going to be taken seriously as an online contender, why can’t you simply import an image sequence?
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I’ll continue to tweak. I just thought I’d try and see if there were any known issues. Thanks.
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Thanks for the response. I am using Animation-codec quicktimes that were generated from a 720p DVCProHD source. Apparently, the client was able to bring the quicktime file into CS3 and use keylight on it without any problems. So, either I’m suddenly terrible at keying or there’s some strange problem inherent in 6.5 vs CS3. Thoughts?
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Actually, it’s for use with a 360 systems media server. It won’t play back regular DV, but must be DV Stream. It’s either that or MPEG-2 and DV stream is quicker.
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compressed audio or not, if your DVD burner is a 16x drive and you just hit the “burn” button in DVDSP, it will burn at 16x and that disc will not play on most DVD players. I haven’t had any problems burning the disc through Disc Utility or Toast at 2x or 4x.
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I’ve had this problem before and I’ve gotten into the habit of mastering a disc image in DVD Studio Pro, which I then bring into Disc Utility and burn a copy from there at 2x. Most DVD players can’t play anything that was written above 4x, but I do it at 2x just to be safe. Since then, no problems whatsoever.
(Ironically, my old G5, the first model to come out, had an older burner that burned at 2x, and I can burn right out of DVDSP without a problem.)
michaelblack
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I understand why this sounds confusing, but trust me, I’ve been using FCP almost daily since version 1 and I’ve never seen this before.
You’ll have to believe me when I say that I opened the quicktimes in quicktime player. The files were there, with their respective filenames and everything. This is why there was no red line through the clip names in FCP indicating that they were offline, and there was no red line over them in the timeline indicating they needed to be rendered. As far as FCP was concerned, everything was fine.
This is why it’s mysterious. I didn’t even know that Quicktime was capable of this creating the “media offline” image. We have since fixed the problem by basically re-exporting the photoshop tiffs again, so I’m not really looking for a solution. I’m mostly concerned about whether or not anyone else has encountered this and if it’s a serious issue that we should worry about.
michaelblack