[Ross Daly]

Hi David,

If you really wanted to then you could render out a half res (or lower) proxy in prores, edit, and then reconnect the full res prores versions of the footage used at the end. The problem is that you are trading hard drive space for time and potential frustration. Both of those cost you money, it’s up to you to see which one is cheaper.

You can also (i believe) set ins and outs in the log and transfer window if you know what selects you specifically want.

Lastly, I would say that the external drive speed isn’t necessarily all that important. That ought to open up the options a bit. Also, how large is your internal laptop drive? That’s generally a pretty cheap/easy upgrade.

I hope this helps,
Ross

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[Ross Daly]

One suggestion in case anyone else follows in your footsteps would possibly be to re-encode the h.264 or the prores files to animation. You could relink the footage and keep limping along. Any amount of animation footage will be much larger than the prores footage, but that may be the price one would have to pay.
In the end I think you did the right thing by upgrading, that g4 isn’t getting any faster! Congrats on your new toys!

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[Ross Daly]

option-t is your cure.

[Ross Daly]

“Removing the gaps between them will tedious! “

No – it needn’t be. Just move the last clip up to V2, select the empty area in V2 to the left of the last clip, and hold down delete. It will error out once all of the gaps have been removed. Voila!

I still agree that the still duration is the easiest way to do this though. 6 of one…