[Todd Gillespie]

You do not want to store your ‘media’ files on the system hard drive. So you’ll need another hard drive available to put the media files onto.

Good Luck,
todd

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Dave,

I’m not sure I exactly understand your problem, I’ve never noticed it?

However you can save your ‘window layout’, then anytime it reverts just click it back to the way you want it. Not really solving the problem, but a quick workaround.

Good luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

You’re getting close.

Once you have it in an .mov file, you will NOT need to log&transfer. You will just import the footage into FCP using ‘import’. (before this, please make sure you’re storing your footage in the correct media HD)

You did not mention which format you were able to convert the .mov file to? It would be best for you to convert the file into either ProRes or AIC. You might need to do a ‘double’ convert; first getting it into ANY .mov file, then use QuickTime to convert again to ProRes.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

I’ve never run across an error like that?

Somewhere along the way, the wheels came off the bus, so you’ve got to start small; try a new audio file (small), try with a new project, try only applying a small adjustment to the file, try exporting back in a normal file, etc.

Keep working your way out until you’re successful or you find out what’s going wrong.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Travis,

If you do a search on this forum, you’ll find out this topic has been covered a lot.

Short answer, no-there’s no setting, plug-in that can do this. However you can use an XML export to re-create the sequence on the older FCP. But if you want to bounce back and forth between computers, it’s not a great option.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Chris,

While you can’t ‘copy’ filters/setting from STP to FCP, you can however save adjustments, filters, etc that you do in STP as a ‘script’ then you can apply that STP script from within the FCP sequence.
It’s doesn’t save you from going into STP, but it automates that process, launching STP, applying the filters, settings, etc. then closing STP and bringing you right back into FCP and modifying the existing clip in the sequence. It can be handy if you know what you’re doing.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Two ways that I use.

‘Nest’ that sequence into a new sequence, then apply filters and make adjustments to that clip
or
QuickTime export and then reimport that back in.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Kenneth,

You didn’t mention if you were using HD or SD, but I think Cody is correct. That’s simply too many realtime streams for the FW drive to spit out-especially if it’s HD.

You’d need a SCSI, SATA, SAS, Fibre, etc connected drives to be able to get some realtime playback for that.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Since it would be best to batch the files, use Compressor.

Match to the ProRes settings to what you have, then change the PCM audio to 16 bit. Render.

Good Luck,

Todd at UCSB
Television Production

[Todd Gillespie]

Hi Kevin,

Having edited on both iMacs and MacPro’s, I can understand you’re confusion. iMacs are extremely fast for a bulk of editing work. However the point where the ‘rubber meets the road’ for faster performance with MacPro’s is the media drives.

You added 3 internal drives (you didn’t mention a internal SATA card-which you’d need to notice better performance) but you really need a SCSI, SAS, ESata, SATA, or Fibre drives connected with a PCI card to enjoy a speed boast. Internal drives, RAID or not, still use the bandwidth from the motherboard and there’s only so fast a Mac can push and pull the data across. I also have 3 internal drives as well as a SAS external, and believe me, there is no comparison in the speed boast and really time performance.

Also, I know somebody who works for a Major HD manufacture, and they’ve spent A LOT of time testing Solid State drives, and they couldn’t get a speed boast of more than 10 seconds. So, Solid State is good, but hard to see a big speed improvement. Also, more RAM. With all the apps in FCS, you can never have too much RAM, I bump up my and immediately noticed an improvement in FCP.

FWIW

Todd at UCSB
Television Production