[Rosie Nakamura]

Thanks Oliver. I just tried saving (from Premiere) the last version of the project that was small to the desktop of the computer and it became 233.1MB as soon as I saved it.

I then opened a version of the project from Monday and the exact same thing happened. It becomes over 200MB as soon as I save it.

I also tried doing this process on a completely different computer and the exact same thing happened. This is so weird.

[Rosie Nakamura]

Thanks for the suggestion, but all masterclip effects were disabled when the footage was first imported into the project a couple of weeks ago and there are no LUTs/any kind of effects being used on anything.

[Rosie Nakamura]

Yes, the project performance has completely changed. It is now very slow to load and save, and it crashes often, whereas before this was not the case. And I have not really even started editing in this project, so I can only imagine how bad it will be when I start that process. I am trying to avoid starting over completely, since a couple weeks of logging and pulling selects has been done, but it might come down to that. It’s just scary, because I’d hate to got though all of that work and this ends up happening again.

[Rosie Nakamura]

I think I’ve figured out the problem, but it’s really odd. The saturation of the green color seems to be too intense for the chroma keyer in FCP to handle. If I desaturate the color of the entire frame it will then key with no problem. I have no idea why this works, but I’m happy there is a workaround. It keys just fine in Motion & After Effects, but for this job, it’s way easier to do everything in FCP.