Tom Valens
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I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to do, but a simple way of changing the color of clips on the timeline is to select all the clips you want to be a certain color, then Control (on a Mac) click one of them and select “Label”. This brings up a list of about 16 colors to choose from.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
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Thanks, TC. It was the disk cache.
– Tom Valens
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I am having the exact same problem. Most noticeable for me with top of upper case M. In addition, I find the whole Captions window to be extremely slow and cumbersome. Any way to hop to top of captions list to make changes and then back down to current caption? Just finished an hour long documentary with lots of captions – it ultimately worked for the most part (although had the problem of spiked caption outlines) but it was like pulling teeth.
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I just ran into this problem myself. For me, the problem was the end of the last audio repeating over a silent title until the next audio clip started. One person mentioned it was fixed by turning on (or off, I can’t remember) the “Import Sequences Natively” box in the AME Preferences – but this didn’t work for me. If I render Directly from PP (“Export” rather than “Queue”) it’s fine, but then I don’t have the advantages of Media Encoder. One workaround that worked for me was to place a blank audio clip (any clip with the audio turned all the way down) on the timeline anywhere there isn’t an audio track. PP 2015.2 Release 9.2.0 build, AME 2015.0.2, Mac Pro (late 2013), OSX 10.10.3.
Tom Valens
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As I understand it, although FCP 7 is allocated 4 GB, about 1.5 of that is reserved for FCP background setup and maintenance, so only about 2.5 GB is actually available for any particular project. What I do is keep the Activity Monitor open with the System Memory tab selected, and watch the FCP Real Mem numbers. As long as that’s under about 2.2 I don’t seem to have any problems (and I’m working with a LARGE project file size – about 240 MB). However, once it gets closer to 2.5 GB I start having problems. I regularly close any timelines I’m not actively working on, and sometimes restart the program to shed any possible memory holders. But even with a 240 MB program, it only takes a few minutes to load (HD ftg, tho a documentary with very few complicated effects).
If it is a real program memory problem, then it may be that you need to go over to a 64 bit program like Premiere or FCP X. But my guess is that it’s related to corrupt files or things like oversized stills, as has been mentioned.
Tom Valens
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What I do is to use Compressor to transcode to ProRes 422. Seems to take about 2X RT. Has worked fine for me.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
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Thanks Simon. Looks like I’ll have to play around more in Motion.
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Thanks for the response, Stephen. Playing around a bit more in Motion, I think I discovered my problem. I didn’t fully understand the relationship between the mask outline and “feathering”. A +50 feather, for example, feathers from the mask outline outwards (50 pixels?) I guess I had assumed it would feather centering on the mask outline. In my case, what I needed to do was to make the mask outline smaller so the feathering would start inside the masked shape and proceed to the background. So by going to Inspector>Properties>Scale, I made the mask smaller (in my case 93%), set the feather to +50, and was able to get a reasonable version of the effect I wanted.
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Thanks for the information Sascha. I’ll try your settings on a test. Your video, by the way, looks GREAT – congratulations. I love the way it was filmed and edited – very creative.
– Tom Valens
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Dennis –
Thank you. Helpful clarifications.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
Forest Knolls, CA