Thomas Newman
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Yes I believe it is. I thought just because I spent 5 grans on my mac that the HD card in it was god enough to handle the work load but honestly its not. I use Magic Bullets, Nattress and a whack of other FX plug ins that kick the crap out of the system when piled on one another. I bought a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 and I love it!! Best thing I ever put into my mac. I can run crazy filters with no hick ups.
Thomas
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Hi,
Yes you can and you have to use Media Manager from inside FCP to convert the files. Once you do that it should just need re rendering if your time line does not match your output. I think there’s a few links on CC for how to use Media manager that should help give you much better explanation.Thanks
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Yes there is a solution but you have to start with your footage first. Whats your timeline set up as? Are you editing HD or SD footage. If its mp4 video footage then you want to make sure that your footage is converted to a FCP friendly codec such as Apple Prores 422 HQ. I had to covert all my files to that codec and replace my video card to get away from the issues. I hope that helps.
Thomas
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Sorry about the dumb last post with the horrible spelling mistakes. Its the ridiculous iphone auto spell correct. In any case what I was trying to say was make sure you delete your Final Cut Pro preferences first. You can do this by downloading a nifty little App called “Preference Manager” and it does the rest. Once you do that hopefully it should make a difference. If not the you may need to upgrade your video card to something that can handle the processing you’re doing.
Best of luck
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If your having those issues with a project that small, try destiny your Fina cut preferences. That sometimes fixes the issues. I also had to upgrade my video card to one that is super heavy duty for processing.
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Hi,
I highly recommend being as meticulous as possible with your project. If this is your baby and you expect it to get bigger as you work along then you should plan ahead now and create individual projects. What I did was take my film which I was having ridiculous problems with and split it up into 7 segments. I basically created 7 pieces which I could keep under control and worked with them as one chapter at a time. It turns out that FCP loves it now and allows me to use heavy filters and move on with my life. Just create a folder and start creating those chunks and title them accordingly. I basically chose parts in my movie where you would move onto a whole new sequence. this keeps it easy to work with and has no glitches.
Best of luck!
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Well it looks like the glitches with the crazy crashes was definitely caused by having the larger project file. Ive managed to cut my film into 7 segments each of them now smaller projects in the 29 to 60 MB file sizes and all is well! Thank you so much for the help could not have done it alone.
Thomas
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Hey,
Thank you for the great advice of splitting up the project! I wish Apple would’ve let me know that the coolest and best editing software out there (In my opinion) had a thresh hold for project sizes! Did they not expect people to make full length movies with it? Anyway, I am in the process of splitting my project into segments so I’m sifting through over 20 thousand files of all sorts of shapes and sizes. I think it will be fine now. I will report back here in 2-3 weeks after Ive had some solid testing.
Thomas
Bong Of The Dead.com
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Hi,
Thanks for the advice. My project size is 350 MB because its a full length feature. What do you suggest I do? Break it up to smaller sequences perhaps where its allowable? Any more insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
ThomasBong Of The Dead.com
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Yeah Ive got all my audio files compressed to AIF and dont have more than 8 tracks now for the following: BG/SFX/MUSIC/FOLEY/
They are all proper formats to match the time line. I did just do a Graphics card upgrade and so far the green flashing has disappeared! I did the upgrade from the MAC showing it needs it then from the website for the card. Im thinking it fixed it but I will only tell after I get through 3o mins of work with no crash. Ill post the crash report next but am hoping i wont have to. Finger crossed!
Thanks