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Tony Rath
July 25, 2008 at 1:23 am in reply to: FCPro On MacBook to NTSC Monitor

“If you are working with HDV footage, FCP 6 allows you to view this via firewire, but ONLY as downconverted DV. It won’t look the best, but you can see it. To do this,”

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I have a Sony HD videocassette recorder connected via firewire, but firewire does not show up in the A/V settings or the View menu. I am working with FCP 6 and would like to color correct on the connected video monitor. Is this going to be possible?
Tony Rath
July 19, 2008 at 12:26 am in reply to: Problems with video stutter on Intel machine

Thanks Kevin for your detailed answer.

I have separated my boot disk from my data drive. I have 2-1Tb drives raided as my boot drive and photo work, and the other 2-1Tb drives raided for video work.

I have tried the purge after 20 frames on the secret menu with no luck.

I have played with the RAM cache, again with no luck.

I am thinking of upgrading but hate to do it in the middle of a project just incase there are problems. That will be my last resort.

I still can’t get more than three separate videos to play within the comp at a time. Three works fine. More than three and the freezing and stuttering happens.

What I’ve resorted to is to create the video wall in batches of three and then pre-render. Then I take three batches of three videos and pre-render again. I end up with 9 videos playing with in a single rendered video. Lots of work though. Really frustrating when I think I have the power to build it straight.

Thanks again for your thoughts.
Tony Rath
July 18, 2008 at 8:24 pm in reply to: pre-render within a pre-render within a pre-render

In other words, as long as I use a lossless codec for the pre-render, I can pre-render to my hearst content, and the final render will not suffer any degradation?
Tony Rath
July 17, 2008 at 4:44 pm in reply to: number of layered videos per comp

Simon,

I guess I didn’t state my question clear. The problem I am having is not in having to wait for rendering, but that when I use more than 3 videos in the comp, the render or pre-render “choke”, the individual videos stutter and freeze within the comp. I posted earlier here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/2/939508

but didn’t get any replies.

Thanks for replying.
Tony Rath
July 17, 2008 at 4:06 pm in reply to: Shorten all layers and keyframes proportionally in a comp

That’s it Dave. Thanks!

Simon, that is what I did, but wanted to work on the original comp instead.

Thanks for the quick reply.