PSD drives my clip crazy!!

Hey all!

machine is a 8-core intel machine with 10gb RAM, running FCP6.02 and 10.4.11

So i a working in a dvcprohd 23.98 timeline, with an ntsc 29.97 clip.

everything is fine until i drop in three still psd files - 23 mb, 23mb, and 321 mb.

then, no matter what i do, all the 29.97 material is out of sync with its audio.

i suspect i need to create smaller sized psd's, but can anyone shed some light on why large graphics would make my video go out of sync from my audio on just the 29.97 material?

thanks!
greg

Probably because it's trying to realtime convert from 29.97 to 23.98 as that's the timeline settings. Large photo files take up a lot of processing power. Based on the sizes I'd say that those files are WAAAYYY too big; especially the 321mb one.

Andy

Thanks Andy for responding.
Yeah, that;s what i figured. but given that the original photo was over 2GBs i was hoping it would be ok!
thanks!
greg

What are the pixel dimensions of your photos? That is the real determinant whether or not they are too large. You're in an HD sequence so the photos CAN be larger.

andy

Andy
thanks for getting back to me.
I'm not sure what the pixel dimensions are but I made the photos smaller (all like 15mb) and it made the problem disappear.
Thanks!
greg