Robb Harriss
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Erik,
very comprehensive, thanks.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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Ever thought of going to an uncompressed MOV or AVI for your select shots? Then they’d be both future and platform proof. You could deliver in pretty much any format after that. A lot more storage, yes, but another way of doing it.
Worse photographic mistake I ever made was giving up my Nikonos years ago 🙁
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Is this an external drive?
You may have to rebuild permissions, or unlock it and allow all users to have read/write statusNon-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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what happens if you just do a Send To compressor instead of exporting first?
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can we back up for just a second. The way you worded your first post it seemed that you were doing this to archive your footage, and not for a particular project. If you’re archiving is it just for posterity? Because you know there is no future proof. Who know what the hot system or format/codec will be a couple of years down the road. I mean there are some interesting things you could do. But running everything at full ProRes can be a bit much all the time. Is there some reason you’re against using ProRes Proxy or something lighter? Are you never shooting any more footage, ever, again? I’d just like to understand. There’s no real flaw in your system, like the other guys have indicated. But what then are you using to catalog it?
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I’m using CATDv, but it doesn’t do all you request, and it’s certainly not open source.
Both Aperture and Lightroom will now read video files, but there’s no proxy creation (there is in CATDv). Bridge is another one, but won’t give all you’re asking for. Nor will Final Cut Server as far as I can see.
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ah, that’s different then. The “render bars” come up with you have too much going on for the system to handle. Starting at the begging it’s best to work with one of the “offline” formats, like ProRes Proxy. And make sure all your footage is the “same.” that is the same format. If you mix formats you’re much more likely to have to render a section. Audio coming in should be the same as your timeline (sequence) settings. I always forget that and drag 44.1 audio into my 48K timelines. Just a small pain.
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Playback? You mean to play it back within Final cut at full resolution with all the effects and transitions rendered? Or playback to lay it off to tape? Or playback as some file type off a computer, or playback off the web?
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we’d need some more information, because what you’re describing is not necessarily out of the norm.
What are you trying to render to? What format, what codec? And what frame size? There are a number of things you might do. And are you talking a MacPro with 8 cores? That’s what I took for 2×2.8 quad. And 14 GB is a lot of ram, but it will let you use Qmaster quite nicely.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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that’s a really good point.
You should trash the compressor preferences. They down deep in the system. I had to do it last week. If you google it you’ll find it easily enough. It does blow off all your custom presets so you save them elsewhere. I did that and did a permissions fix on that machine and it went back to behaving well.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.