Michael W. towe
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Disregard, I answered my own question It means the clip was shot high speed. In this case 120fps. I discovered that through finding this little gem put together by Larry Jordan.
https://larryjordan.com/articles/what-do-the-icons-in-final-cut-pro-x-mean/
Michael W. Towe
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And to snark on your snark. With other edit systems I have to pay way more attention to whats to the right of my play head when making revisions. Something that the connected storyline lets me, for the most part, forget about!
A timely topic as I am in FCP7 today making changes to a 2012 project for a client.
Snark on brother!
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This was a brilliant episode. Being able to append to a secondary storyline with a keystroke has saved me a tone of time and frustration.
Thanks Ripple Training!!!
Michael W. Towe
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So follow up on this as I did a little experimenting…
I started the import and then quit FCPX as I am assuming this may have been what the client did. It gives me the warning that I have background task that need to be stopped, which would be the importing. It even opens the background task window so that I can stop them. If I stop the import and then close FCPX I’m screwed. Because even if I reopen and try to “Reimport from Camera/Archive” it can’t find the files. However if I do a straight import and just point to the card structure on the drive it will relink the files, but they will still be a camera reference file. And there is no way to finish the import. I even tried consolidating and that didn’t work.
Here’s the odd thing though. If I stop the import without quitting FCPX I will get camera reference clips, but I can do a “Reimport from Camera/Archive” from the File/import menu and it will see the files and continue the import. It appears to be the act of closing FCPX without having the files fully imported that basically orphans this clips as camera reference clips.
Also for those that don’t know, you can’t share a timeline if it has camera referenced clips in it. So the lesson learned here is 2 fold.
1- Never close FCPX with incomplete imports from a camera card structure.
2 – Don’t start editing if you have camera reference clips in your event. Delete those files and reimport.
Michael W. Towe
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Can confirm it’s crashing here too.
Michael W. Towe
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Hi Dennis,
Answers below…
[Dennis Radeke] “Make sure your media cache is on a local drive and be sure to clear/clean your media cache first. This will cause a rebuild possibly of the media cache initially, but in order to troubleshoot this isn’t a bad thing. Also, trash your preferences as a good housekeeping measure.
Media cache is on the same raid as the media, I’ll try clearing that out. I did trash the preferences once already, no help there.
How much RAM have you allocated to Adobe apps in the preferences? Some times folks put too MUCH RAM to Adobe. Rule of thumb is to have 50-75% to Adobe and when you have problems, generally, put LESS RAM to Adobe. So for 32GB, I would probably have 18-20GB allocated for Adobe. If you put it to 26-28GB, then that is definitely a part of your problem.
I’ll give that a shot, I was set to 26GB for Premiere Pro.
Are you using 3rd party I/O hardware? are you on the latest version of Premiere Pro? Spelling Premiere Pro the right way is tantamount to making it work correctly…Okay, maybe not – it’s just my pet peeve! 😉
I do have an AJA T-Tap but that was the first thing I disconnected to make sure it was not adding to the issue. Disconnecting did not help.
Incorrect spelling of Premier Pro is simply a bug in Mikebrain Ver. 19.66. I have reported this bug to to both of the manufacturers at Mombrain LLC and Dadbrain, Inc. However they keep assuring me that the hardware is bug free and I should contact the elementary programers at Schoolbrain, Inc.
Also, 4K H264 media is a true bear to decode – think about the computational complexity of a 4k frame where most of the frames are not full frames – hard for even a great new Apple Macpro to compute. You could test performance by using Consolidate and Transcode feature in project management to see if performance improves that way. I think it might.”
Personally I think this is the biggest contributor to the problem. I have delivered the show to color so now it’s off of my plate. However there is another editor working on this project on a MacPro and he will be doing just that before he starts on the show he is cutting. I suspect he will have a much easier time at it.
Thanks for the reply,
Mike
Michael W. Towe
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Hi Andy,
Thanks so much for the response. Answers below…
– The raid is 18TB (After Raid 5 striping) and currently has 15TB available
– No peak files still building. The blue bar goes away about the same time as the media loading finishes. However after it finishes loading the media I am looking at Media Pending for a good 5 minutes. After I get picture it’s another 5 minutes before I can playback picture and sound.
– No warnings or events when opening the project.
– Same version of PP on PC and Mac. I have not tried the XML trick, but at this point I have done so much work on the project that wouldn’t be practical. Maybe as a test at a later date though
– I have not tried a new project and import of the old sequences. I’ll give that a shot and see. However I am a lille confused on this. If I do this wouldn’t I just have the sequences in the new project, and none of the bins and media? Or would I just need to reimport all the media into the new project as well?
– I’m finishing in 1080 so the sequence is just that. Unfortunately at this point I don’t have time to transcode. I am powering through it because I have to deliver to color by tomorrow morning. However after that when I have some time to futz with it I will do a transcode and see if that helps. I suspect it will.
Thanks again for the response. I really want to get to the bottom of what has gone sideways with this project. This has to have been one of the most painful edits I have had to deal with in years and I would rather not go through it again. As much as I want to scream and yell at Premier I also understand that this may be a system or operator error.
Michael W. Towe
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In the past with BMD devices I have needed to reinstall the Desktop Studio software after installing X updates. Give that a whirl.
Michael W. Towe
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Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees!!! I was so focused on XML that I never stopped to think about a transfer library. Thanks for knocking me out of that!
Mike
Michael W. Towe
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Just tried that on my end but no joy, I am still getting stuttering. I am working with BMD tech support on it so I’ll post what comes f that.
Mike
Michael W. Towe
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