Michael Garber
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Diego, understood with your frustration, but it’s most likely the RAM. I’m running some 23.98 prores from an unpowered fw800 drive and it’s ok but can get a big sluggish. I made proxy files and it works great.
Not sure if this works with HDV (as FCP won’t make proxies of all codecs), but try making proxy files out of them. Select clips in viewer, right click, select transcode. See if you can choose proxy. I know, strange to make proxies from something that runs 3mb/s but try it and see (just a troubleshooting idea, not a definitive answer). You can switch back and forth between proxy in the preferences menu. Note – it’s global, so all projects play as proxy. Clips not proxy show up as offline.
One other thing – which video card is in your system? Is it the version with 512mb of ram or 1GB version? I had a 512mb card before I upgraded on my mac pro and it helped greatly.
If you up the ram, I recommend 16gb and it’s not that much $ from OWC. (It’s probably the RAM
)Trash the prefs. Do a permissions fix, bla bla bla. Hope that helps. Let us know what you do.
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It’s all part of the plan…
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As long as the dissolves all start on the same frame, then yeah, that’s probably the best. In any case, curious to hear how it works out for you on the next job.
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Bill, if you substitute the dissolves with keyframed opacity changes, does the same thing occur?
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Just tried it using the favorites method to subclip and it sorts by tc in point no problem.
I know of people adding 1., 2. etc… to keywords to keep them in a specific order in the event browser. I see no problem with this method if it helps keep things visually organized for you.
Every thing I work on in X tends to have a slightly different workflow. So what works for me on one project might not work as well on the next.
And, as always, if you are hitting a wall with a certain feature in X or a bug, you should write them feedback. They are listening.
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Since you have timecodes logged already, you can also just go to those timecodes by hitting ^P and then typing in the TC. Set your in. ^P enter your out. Set your out. Add Keyword, Add Favorite.
If skimming is difficult given the length, and depending on the size of your monitor, here are some tips:
You could break the clip into smaller sections using keywords and favorites (1st Quarter, 2nd, etc..). Then add keywords to the broken down clips (via selecting favorites per my suggestion before). It’s been discussed here before, that we tend to log in FCPX in passes. This seems like a good time to work in that manner.
When in filmstrip view, you can zoom in and out just like you can on the timeline. It’s a little funky, because the clips start breaking up by lines when it hits the edge of the window.
I would probably prefer to log in List View, since you can see and edit your keywords/notes in a more logical, timecode-based manner. In this situation, you want to maximize the horizontal space, since the clip is on top of the list. I use a second monitor at work which helps immensely. On my laptop at home, I make sure that the info tab (cmd-4) is turned off. My vid is set to the minimum size I can endure. And I hide the event library (eeks out juuuust a little more horizontal space).
Note, once you set your Keyword in and out point and you log it, you are pretty much set with that range. I’ve had crashes when trying to edit the in and out points after the fact. If you have to edit them, your best bet is to create a new keyword range, copy paste, delete old one.
I find myself constantly turning on and off modes and windows in X. Just part of the ‘flow.
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Yes, it will help. FCP uses the GPU while editing and rendering. It uses the processors when exporting. Not sure what other cards you can use or if a cuda card like the Quadro 4000 might provide better speeds. I went with 5870 on my 2008 Mac Pro and it helped a lot with playback.
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Hey Jim,
Couple questions – how long is the timecoded clip you are trying to edit? Is the timecode that you are trying to use the same code that is on the clip? I can think of some workarounds for both of these scenarios, but just need some confirmation on your issue, first.
Agreed that very long clips are difficult to log and skim in the event browser – it really seems to be meant for shorter clips. But, it’s not impossible and, again, there are some small workarounds to get things a little easier to scrub around. It is, for now, the only way you can keyword.
One quick note – The way to get subclips to work (in the FCPX sense, you’re really just filtering out things): add a keyword and then favorite that keyword. Next, in the event browser, choose Favorites (^F). The browser will show your clips as “subclips” in your keyword collections or main event. If you don’t add the favorite, then the entire clip shows up in the collection where you can find all the keywords. Note that if you rename the filtered out favorites, any changes you make to the clip name occurs to all the filtered subclips, since they are really just pointing to one master clip.
Sometimes, you can forget that you have a filter on and it can get in the way. In this case, I spend the time creating smart collections. For the smart collection, my properties would be to add the keyword and then select the “favorites” state as your search selections. This will do the same thing as above (filter out all but favorites) but you don’t have to have favorites selected from the filter menu.
That was a mouthful, well, a fingerful, I guess!
Good luck with your project.
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Hi Patrice,
If Loren’s solution doesn’t work, it could be that your role status is set to minimize. This is set in the Timeline Index. Click on timeline index on the bottom left of your timeline (or hit cmd-F), then “roles”, and then check to see if the up arrows are selected (it will be blue). If they are, that particular role will be minimized.
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Waiting until the end of the week to see if they make any more announcements. Then it’s officially hackintosh time.
Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company