Walter Biscardi
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That’s the best low-cost way to do it. Specialized tools are much more expensive.
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Best way to prevent this is to simply export the stabilized clip as a self contained clip. We do this sometimes when we have a long edit. Just throw the clips into their own timeline, stabilize them, then export them as a self contained quicktime file so we never have to worry about rendering them again.
No clue as to what is triggering your specific clips from losing their render links. I’ve heard that from time to time, but I”m not sure we’ve actually seen that situation at our shop.
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It means you’ll be editing from the original Master shows to make shorter, edited versions of them.
Must have experience with Final Cut Pro 7 is what the FC7 means.
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MacBook Pros are built for editing and other intensive tasks. Heck Apple’s own advertising often features Final Cut Pro on the screen. So that’s a bogus excuse for the machine dying. A good friend of mine edits a lot of Discovery Channel material at his home on his MacBook Pro and Avid. Has been for years.
Heat, however, IS a major cause of a machine dying. I always had my MB Pro sitting up on a raised platform. I never purchase a fan unit, but just having it up off the table / desk allowed air to get up underneath the machine for better cooling.
So no problem using the machine all day, every day for professional tasks. Just get the back of the machine up off the desk so it can get air underneath it.
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[Dan DeStefano] ” Change your audio hardware settings to anything other than what they are when the problem is occurring. I don’t know why this happens, but it does.”
If you are running AJA hardware, this is standard practice in the computer preferences, not Adobe PPro. At least this is how it is on the Apple. System Prefs > Sound > Audio Playback > Anything OTHER than AJA.
[Dan DeStefano] “Second issue is when I change the audio rate in one project, suddenly every single project I’ve ever worked on plays in the wrong audio rate. “
Honestly don’t understand this one or what the issue is. When you say audio rate, you’re changing the rate from say 48khz to 41khz? Not sure why you would do that, or I’m misunderstanding the question. We only run in 48khz. This is one of the bigger differences between FCP 7 and PPro in that PPro does not like 41khz audio and tends to have stuttering issues when using it. We make sure we’re always importing and set up for 48khz audio when editing in PPro.
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Sounds like you’re talking about setting up a RAID. RAIDs are a group of drives usually in the same chassis. Up to 24 drives in a single chassis. There are a slew of options out depending on your system and your needs. Either a single user can be connected to the RAID or you can have the system networked to multiple systems.
In our case, we run a 48TB and 32TB RAID that are connected together in a 10Gig ethernet network with 26 connections. So 26 workstations can all connected to the 80TB of media storage. I also have a very simple 8TB RAID at home which is a chassis with four 2TB drives with FW800 and USB3 connectivity.
So the questions for you are, how much footage will you need to store? You want a RAID that holds at least 50% more than what you need to ensure you have enough room for graphics, audio, renders and overhead to maintain proper speed.
How do you need to connect this RAID to your system? Generally it’s going to be SAS, Thunderbolt, FibreChannel or 10gig Ethernet these days.
Are you on Mac or PC?
How many computers need to connect to your system?
Some of the usual suspects for RAIDs, especially large RAIDs and shared storage are Studio Network Solutions, G-RAID, Facilis, Small Tree, Maxx Digital, ProMax, folks like that. If you’ve never set up something like this, you should definitely reach out to a good local VAR, a value added reseller to help you get set up properly.
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does the output of the BMD match your timeline settings? AJA automatically converts a lot of formats that the end user doesn’t realize is happening. BMD is more hands one requiring everything to be set set to perfectly match between the card and timeline for output to be clean.
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how many filters and effects are you using? titles?
Even the speed of your media hard drive affects render time for accessing the material.
2GB of RAM can slow complex processes down too.
Short answer, “it depends.” Renders can be super super fast or super super long. A myriad of factors affect the overall render speed, not just CPU, GPU and drive.
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Since it’s not a lot of files, what about re-naming your Ki-Pro files to match the 4k originals? Then you’d maintain the same naming structure throughout the entire process.
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Library of Congress accepts a lot of stuff. At the very least pack it up and ship it to them so the materials are around. No matter what they are.
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