[Terry Simpson]

Now, I am stumped. I have NO user/Library/Quick Time folder.
(see attached screen GRAB)
And a spotlight search for those 2 file names/components yielded nothing.

A couple weeks ago I used the technique of running Repair Disk Permissions cited below (however I had to do it 6x) and it worked. Today I ran it to no avail.

Any help?

Terry

[Terry Simpson]

The GET link leads nowhere now, and a search of their site turns up nothing.

Anyone else have a solution? I am taking a project over to a friend who has Premiere, which gets good reviews (particularly for it’s ability to edit to an edited text file–sounds fantastic!). BTW, THIS is what FCP 8 should have had to catch up to the Adobe release of 2 years ago…

There is also this tidbit for folks: YouTube has a CC capability, from which you can download a text file, then I found an internet based app (video-critters.org) which allows you to use keyboard strokes to pause the video while you type or correct the transcript. And then download the corrected transcription file (which could be uploaded to YouTube–if CC is what you are trying to do). If you are just trying to edit a talking heads tape and want to cut from a yellow highlighted paper transcript with TC numbers every line of text this will do it.

This workflow inserts TC every 4 seconds (depending on how long you select for a line of text to be seen onscreen). I’ve used it and because I only type about 25 words per minute, making the corrections usually is time-efficient. For those who type 40wpm, I have the feeling that starting with the YouTube CC file is a waste of time because you could type the whole line or phrase quicker than you can highlight and replace the 40-50% of the words that are wrong. So just uploading clips to YouTube and then skipping straight to video-critters to type in all the transcription may be the way to go.

FWIW, here’s the workflow:
Upload clip(s) to youTube (making the video private of course)
1) on the bottom right corner, click on the [CC] and make sure it chooses “English-filename
2)download the “Automatic” or “Machine Transcription” version of the subtitles, corrected the first couple of paragraphs and re-uploaded it; this is what you will do with it on all the others)
3) CC should now be red and they will appear at the bottom of the screen.
4) click on the tab: [Edit captions/subtitles]
5) click on [download] on English-filename

Then to correct the transcription with the Video Critters Captioning tool, see the tutorial at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvI-YjkxAFo

Actual tool at:
https://videocritter.org/

I offer this workflow without wholehearted endorsement. It doesn’t seem quite like a professional solution, since I have the phone number of a transcriptionist who will produce a similar document for $40/hr, taking 1.5x to 2.5x for every hour of interview footage, I always have to try to figure the difference between just ripping audio files and sending them to her to transcribe, then paying someone else to insert TC into her doc, or me trying to accomplish the same in a $100 an hour edit suite.

On low-budget projects, I have been somewhat successful requiring the client to produce the transcripts. They often pass on it the next project, and gladly pay the $300-$500 it adds to a budget.

Still looking for a better solution,

Terry

[Terry Simpson]

Excellent advice, all. Thank you so much! Both the reason and a process for troubleshooting. One 18 sec segment was saying it would take 1 hour 43 minutes in Compressor, before it Failed. There was a single 3.5k x 5k px image. I had been using it scaled to only about 11%. After I resized it to 1900×1400, the segment rendered in like 45 seconds. What make it tough was that the section with a single oversize pix was surrounded by 2 segments that used Magic Bullet Denoiser, a very render intensive plugin. So I thought THAT was the culprit.

Anybody want to suggest the fastest workflow for resizing these stills? Right now, I /export/still>png, open it in Photoshop or even Preview and resize it. I have another project to deal with htat has a couple dozen stills that are pretty big.

Thanks again.

Terry

[Terry Simpson]

Wayne,

I looked at the article and I’m not sure it is as clear as you seem to be saying. What it definitely says is that “Note: DIMMs must be installed in pairs of equal size from the same vendor. For instance, you must not have one or three DIMMs on either riser at any time. Additionally, two DIMMs from different vendors should not be combined and used as a pair.” which almost confirms what you say about pairs (except if you have 512mb sticks, it could get you to an odd number.

It does NOT seem to categorically state that only 2, 4, 8, 16, 32gb is most compatible. It does NOT state that you have to do things in quads (2 matched pair in each riser), although the chart seems to indicate that quads might be best(as you say), 2 matched sticks in each riser.

My MacPro currently has 6gb, all risers full (4 sticks of 512 and 4 sticks of 1gb–2 of each size in each riser). The way I read the chart, it should be highly compatible, best use for FCP. I am wondering if my next upgrade could be to pull 2 of the 512 and put in 2-2gb for a total of 9gb, meaning I would have 2-512, 4-1gb, 2-2gb. I would rather do that ($160) than replace all 4-512’s with 4-1gb for a new total of 8gb ($212). The other would be to replace ALL my 512mb’s with 2-gb for a new total of 12gb ($320). I might be reading it wrong. Anyone know?

BTW, I had never had an “out-of-memory” error until I recently downloaded/bought Black Magic Denoiser. I saw a post saying that the culprit is plugins that won’t let go of memory. Re-booting seems to clear it. Annoying, but good to know.
Terry

Terry