Neil Patience
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Hi Jim
I think your issue may be that the thunderbolt to firewire adapter does not work with some older cameras and peripherals.
I believe that although you are connecting the camera via firewire the Mac still “sees” it as Thunderbolt and therefore needs a Thunderbolt driver available
for it to work. If there is no Thunderbolt driver for your camera then thats where the problems start.
There is an earlier thread about this herehttps://forums.creativecow.net/thread/335/43823
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Hi Carrie
What codec are the files you are editing ? My first thought is that they may be H264 as that can typically cause this kind of thing. If they are convert them to ProRes and that should fix your issue.
If they are not H264 can you give us a little more info about the files and your system and drives set-up – thanks
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Hi Enrico
It would be a mistake to use your internal OS drive to store media and 5400 RPM is not quick enough. You need 7200 rpm as a minimum but again a single
internal drive won’t run 6 HD streams.
An SSD would certainly be quick but you are not going to have much storage space. You could replace the optical drive in your MBP with a hard drive to use as the boot/os drive and the put an SSD where your current hard drive is. I think that way you can take advantage of the best SATA speed.
But any SSD over 512Gig is going to be expensive.
Something like a 4TB Thunderbolt GRaid is going to be around $525 which is probably among the cheapest raid solutions. Bear in mind that is Raid 0 so it does give great speed but no redundancy. but not that much more than s decent SSDbest wishes
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Hi Enrico
USB2 will hardly support a single stream of HD let alone 6. Even using proxy media you are going to struggle it simply is not quick enough to cope.
You need to look at a quicker external hard drive solution. I think your laptop supports Thunderbolt. If so that would be ideal to get the drive speed you need.best wishes
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Hi Wendell
One option you might want to consider :-
I went for a non retina 2.7 gig i7 MacBook Pro. The high res anti glare screen model. Although you sacrifice the retina display it retains the optical drive which you can keep or use the space for a 2nd HD/SSD. Same CPU same GPU, it also has a firewire 800 connector, Ethernet, Thunderbolt and 2 USB3 ports,
So you get the same performance (in fact I noticed on Geekbench it slightly out performs the Retina by just a touch.) much more connectivity, upgradeable Ram to 16 gigs, replaceable HD.
So all in all with the exception of the Retina display its a whole lot more flexible, connectable and as much as any laptop upgradeable, Its slightly thicker and slightly heavier than the Retina.
It will save you a few hundred dollars too over the Retina model.Just a thought.
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You certainly don’t need 4444 for your Canon footage, that is total overkill and just creates huge files for no quality gain.
LT is a good codec for your Canon footage but some people prefer to use ProRes 422 (rather than the LT version)
I tend to use 442 for my Canon 550D footage and that works very well so perhaps give that a go.
Either way 4444 is just eating drive space and possibly slowing down your system.best wishes
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Your 550D shoots in H264. This is great for acquisition but a nightmare for editing. Do not drop your H264 .Movs onto your timeline. This will mean lots of rendering and also you will run into issues.
The plug in you need is because that allows FCP to log and transfer the footage from your camera and transcode it to ProRes 422. This is the correct way to deal with your footage. Rafael pointed you in totally the right direction with Shanes workflow. Follow this and all will be good.
Dropping your .Mov H264s into your timeline may seem to work but you will run into issues so please dont work this way.You will need to edit a file in the Canon plug in to make it “see” your camera. I have the same camera and it works perfectly. Its very simple to do.
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Neil
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I guess it could have been converted to a 10 bit 444 uncompressed file. Depending on the length of the clip that is going to be a very large file, somewhere around 700Gigs per hour.
The DP has not done you any favours here considering your requests about your system and the fact that the source is Super 8. I don’t think FCP6 and the associated QT version supports 444 files, (I could be wrong its a while since I used FCP6) however it would explain the message you are getting from QT player, you clearly don’t have the correct codec installed.I think you need to get the file converted to another format FCP6 can certainly handle ProRes HQ 442 which would have been totally fine for Super 8 footage, indeed any HD footage and you could edit with it fine.
In all honesty any system is going to struggle with 10bit uncompressed 444 files. You will need super quick hard drives just to play them in real time.best wishes
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I don’t think the “out of memory” error is a literal message about available RAM. FCP can only use something like 4 Gigs tops as it like any other 32 bit app is restricted that way. So no amount of extra RAM or processor power is going to help in any event. 4K is just the limit FCP can handle.
Keeping the images under 4K and 72dpi is the only real way of keeping it happy. I have had sequences where literally 1 still out of hundreds of shots/images is too large and it gets upset.
But yes AE or Motion would have dealt with it easily or just restricting the size to less that 4K in FCP would have been OK
It’s always a pain inheriting things late on. Hope its not too much of a headache.best wishes
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In following the thread about the head shots behind Bill I wonder if anyone else thinks that he has slightly more than a passing resemblance to Simon Cowell – no offence Bill 🙂
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Neil
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