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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: FCP Stutters to a complete stop - 14 years agoOK Jeff, I did see what you did there, and I admit it made me laugh. However I have 6GB of RAM and about 5TB of free disk space. Another annoying thing it is doing is crashing at the end of renders. It wouldn't be nearly as annoying if it crashed at the beginning... Anyway this is getting to be quite annoying because I can't figure out how to trouble shoot it to solve the problem.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA FCP Stutters to a complete stop - 14 years agoEverything has been working well for several months and we have not changed anything about what we're doing. Editing long form XDCAM over a fiber channel SAN, editing as normal, after a while, and with no apparent reason the playback starts to stutter until it won't play anymore. If I try to jump around the timeline it is very "sticky" and takes several seconds to move the CTI. I iby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: RIP Grasshopper... - 14 years agoWhy? What Colonel Hogan did something that tarnished his career?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: XDCam plus P2 workflow help - 14 years agoActually, depending on which Kona card you have and the percentage of footage of each format, you might be better off capturing all the non-XDCAM footage through the Kona card to ProRes, up or cross converting in real time and then inputting the XDCAM footage normally and editing in a ProRes timeline. XDCAM and ProRes play very well together. The real challenge is frame rate, I'd be inclineby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Repair shops near Ventura County? Dog lifted leg! - 14 years ago"Pee-C" now that's funny. We call LPS "engine overhaul in a can", makes your engine look and smell great, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it for the inside of a computer. Joe is right about the smell, especially if it was a female dog. Depending how brave you might be you can UNPLUG your Mac, get a spray bottle with water, a blow dryer, some Q-Tips and microfiber toby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: MPEG-4 and XDCAM - 14 years agoWhat are you doing? The XDCAM files need to be converted to something [.mov] the FCP can use. We do this with two applications, Sony's Clip Browser which transfers the XDCAM BPAV files from the camera to a disk. The BPAV folder is a file system, although you can copy it by drag and dropping. for example, its not recommended, Clip Browser copies and verifies that the file system is till inby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Compressor and two macs, do I need a SAN ? - 14 years agoI'm not sure how to answer your question, I have an xServe and a MacPro "clustered" together with Qmaster, the Xserve is connected via Gigabit ethernet and the MacPro is connected to a shared file system via fiber channel, but the xServe is not on the SAN and it works great. I don't believe you need shared storage nor do you need to migrate the data so that it is local to each machinby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: adobe flash export? - 14 years agoI haven't tried this latest upgrade, although I liked it, I found its predecessor to slow. Does anyone know if this version can distribute the render across multiple xServes?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Final Cut and Sony XDCAM Transfer.app - 14 years agoThere's also a fairly inexpensive utility called Shotput Express that can offload your SxS cards, then you can use either the XDCAM plugin or the XDCAM Transfer software as stand alone.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA OT: iDisk alternative - 14 years agoI have been using Apple's iDisk to allow producers to download dallies. Download speeds aren't to bad but upload speeds are very slow and it quirky as hell, it might take four hour for an upload and crash after three and a half. I'm guessing they didn't design this for GB data transfers. Anyway, anyone else using iDisk? Does anyone know of a good alternative? I need to upload and downloadby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Not OT: No coffee breaks any more ... - 14 years agoTo my knowledge it is not possible to export directly, or via compressor for that matter, using qmaster for multi processor rendering. Which in my opinion is stupid. Why can't I choose to export via Compressor and then get the dialog to submit the job choose the qmaster I want to use to distribute the render. Its the FCP rendering time I'd like to reduce.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT:: CPU Monitor Color Adjustment Software - 14 years agoGlad I could help...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Not OT: No coffee breaks any more ... - 14 years agoBetter still would be ablt to export via Compressor and then using compressor distribute the render across multiple xServes. Why can't we do that?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT:: CPU Monitor Color Adjustment Software - 14 years agoThe software that I was referring to is Spyder Elite 3. I don't think the issue is so much about matching the deliverable as it is starting with a known or calibrated state enabling you to make consistent color decisions. If its wrong at least it will be consistently wrong and you can adjust from there. I don't try to make my computer RGB monitor match my broadcast YUV monitor, I calibraby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT:: CPU Monitor Color Adjustment Software - 15 years agoI guess your talking about your computer monitor, but here's what I have done and it seems to work very well. I realize that the purist amongst us may take exception to this. There are several color calibration software packages available, I don't remember the one I have at work but if your interested I can check tomorrow. These are designed to calibrate your monitor, scanner and printer. Iby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Transition Plug in Package - 15 years agoVery nice plugins but hard to justify the cost. Another source for good pluins is: I have used many of the Trapcode plugins and found them easy to use with great results. I like the look of the Sapphire plugins and would certainly purchase them if their prices were more inline with FX Factory. Trapcode, etc..by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: RAID Block Size? - 15 years agoIt depends a little on what your editing. The bigger the block size the faster it streams large contiguous files (MB/GB's) but access to small file (KB.s) will slow down. However, more than software RAID sux as gafixjoe pointed out, RAID 0 really sucks if you are using critical data that cannot be restored easily.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Submit to Batch Monitor - Compress later - 15 years agoOK this is really cool, I could use this a lot. But I'm confused, you leave at 5:00? Wow, I want to work where you work...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Canon 5D Mark 11 footage - 15 years agoThis whole "GOPsylvania versus I-frametopia" is so '08. XDCAM EX rocks. It blows DVCProHD away. There ya go. I haven't had a good format argument in a while...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Recording macros in FCP 6 - 15 years agoOn the Sparks home page it states that version 3.0b9 works with OS 10.4.11, doesn't mention 10.5. Anyone tried it on Leopard?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: GridIron Flow Public Beta for Mac Has Arrived - 15 years agoHas anyone tried it yet? I signed up when they originally announced their beta program, but lately I haven't had the time to devote to it. I'm curious what people first impressions are.by Chuck Spaulding - News and Announcements Re: SXS Card Fails to Mount on Desktop! - 15 years agoAlso, I'd recommend using Sony's XDCAM Clip Browser to taransfer the BPAV to your dirive and then use Sony's XDCAM Transfer software to encode it into Quicktime's FCP can use instead of using the Log and Transfer in FCP.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Light Rays - 15 years agoOK, I'm rendering in 32bit to see if there's much of a difference. Either way I'm pretty satisfied with the output.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP & original timecode - 15 years agoWe use the TC Generator in Compressor all the time for window burns to be used in QC and haven't had any problems. What do you mean when you say that the TC generator in FCP and Compressor generates arbitrary TC? Of coarse for QC I'm only interested in the time line TC not the source TC. I guess that's where the TC reader filter comes into play?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Light Rays - 15 years agoI ended up using Trapcode's Shine. Easy to use looks great in 16bit, I was too impatient to try 32bit. These are very good plugins. Thanks.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Light Rays - 15 years agoI have a scene that was shot in a church and would like to add "God Ray's" coming through the windows. Does anyone know of a plugin for FCP, Motion or AE that works well for this?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Stock Video HDV vs Pro Res 422 - 15 years agoNot so fast... The quality of HDV is not improved by converting it to ProRes. We have done a lot of HDV work, most often if the entire project is HDV we will leave it HDV and set our render settings to ProRes and exprt ProRes if needed. If we are mixing formats we will convert all sources to ProRes and use it as a digital intermediate that we can export to any format we want. The biggesby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Automating the Bake Process - 15 years agoOK, not to add to the confusion, but how come I can use multiple processors using compressor to reformat just about any clip, but when I export via Compressor from FCP I can't? That sucks...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: MacPro Purchase for FCP Editing - 15 years agoNot sure where your located but if its in the Los Angeles area you can call Mac Hollywood.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: MacPro Purchase for FCP Editing - 15 years agoWe do a lot of color correcting using ProRess 1920x1080. I use the Radeon 3870, this card is great for Motion, AE and Color. I can't say I noticed much of a difference for FCP. I also only have 5GB of RAM. Sometimes if I'm working on large complicated 10 bit float projects in AE it will start swapping and really slow down. If this happens I do a little house cleaning and pre-comp what I caby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA |
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