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Kevin, can your engineers create multifunction keys like S= slip, ss= slide, sss= retime) or z=zoom in, zz=zoom out or b=razor one clip bb=razor entire timeline?
other functions like control + v cut the whole timeline and if you select a certain clip(s) above one another, it cuts everything again rather than the select content. I’ve used the standard FCP keyboard layout since FCP3 and PPCS6 seems close, however I stil find myself creating may shortcuts (like b for the razor) that just never made it in your preset.
PPCS6 is wonder and i’m not bashing, its just different and we’re trying to adapt here. we have noticed that it seems more click/drag and right click oriented then keyboard and mouse or stylus friendly at the moment.
thanks for reading.
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Multiple reasons whey go get this error and you look to have managed to have a lot of them. Is this your first FCP project? Look at it like a balance, you need equal things on both sides to optimize your workflow.
Still images are too large, the max image size you can bring into FCP is 4,000 x 4,000 but we’ve had issues with still over 2,000 x 2,000.
Why are you letterboxing your HD Ninja-ness into a DV/DVCPRO sequence? Match your sequence settings with your footage for starters. You won’t have to render everything and if you need to deliver is some SD variant you out put it that way.
Use MPEGStreamclip to convert your footage to ProRes 422 and tell it to make the audio 16/48kHz (as mentioned). Match your sequence settings to your new ProRes footage.
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The answer to your question is no. From everything I’ve read at apple fcp uses no more than 4 gb of ram. it is a 32bit app.
Re: How can i improve my Mac Pro 2x 2.66 Dual-Core Intel 6GB on a budget
by jason morton on Nov 9, 2009 at 2:21:19 am“Thanks Ben, am i right in think the more RAM the better for FCP, i think there is enough room to go up to 16, is it worth the money or should i stick with 12 as you recommended. I presume thats a Nvidia gfx card you are also recommending.
Regards, Jason”Todd Sansom
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i’m not claiming to know everything or even much of anything, but reading through these posts it becomes very clear no one really knows. there are a lot of good ideas for possible solutions. i was on the phone for 3 hours with different companies including apple and none of them were really sure either.
not reading into it too much one would assume final cut doesn’t use more than 4gb ram (https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/specs/). That said, your computer could always use a little more for doing other processes. Safest bet, fill your ram plates with 2gb sticks. with 8 slots that will give your computer a large 16bg of ram, so you can run fcp, apurture, dvdsp and even a little motion if you wanted. filling every slot with 2gb chips takes care of all the unknowns of every person on here.
so where do you buy ram. apple says they make the best ram and that’s why 2 x 2gb sticks are $950±. OWC (macsales.com) you can get (depending on your machine) 16gb for $600. apple says their 4 gb is better than owc’s 16 gb. bias…i don’t know.
one thing that will definately help your fcp performance is a better gpu (video card). the higher the ddr the better the card.
apple offers this card as a new upgrade (https://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/ati-radeon-hd-4000/hd-4870/Pages/ati-radeon-hd-4870-overview.aspx). it screams. we are putting one in one of our mac pro editing stations. people also like (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435928/) and they also like (https://ati.amd.com/products/RADEONX1900/index.html)
so the long and short of it is keep it simple on the ram and get a good gpu. if you can’t afford $4,000 for apple ram then buy the stuff from owc, it won’t kill you. just keep it simple and spend the $600 and put the same kind, from the same time period and the same specs in every slot and you avoid all of the guess work everyone has been offering on this thread.
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If all your video stream are in the same format your computer will appreciate it. It won’t have to work so hard. At times there are problems with multi-cam edits and multiple formats, however, it looks like yours are all 1080i50.
I may not have answered your question, just thinking out loud.
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I had a similar issue but with some sill images. Reconnecting ONLINE media fixed my issue.
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I appreciate the info. I have used that folder and the contents before to solve minor glitches. Unfortunately they didn’t work this time. I resorted to reinstalling FCP and it did the trick. Just wrapping up the installation now.
best of luck with your problem. i wish i had more to offer.
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Rats! Best of luck. I have been trying to sort out a problem with one of our machines since 1 pm and I have had no luck. The project file won’t load. Do you know of anywhere FCP puts project caches or anything like that? I’ve tried to delete preferences but it seems like it is still trying to reference something else.
hope you get it figured out.
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can you complete your processes exporting 2 hours?
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I like the Intensity Pro for capture. https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/
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