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Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
Thanks Dave, All good points. this is an editing only system, but I don't keep records of updates, etc.. I have never to my recollection done an entire hour using XDCAM EX video on a DVCPROHD timeline, but have done many on the ProRes HQ timeline with no problems & you'd think the DVCPROHD time line would have similar results. For the next hour I'm going to do it from Guest user andby jwatt - Café LA
Re: Recommended sources for HD stock footage? - 12 years ago
So this is a blatant flogging of our own stock footage library, (www.hdstockfootage.net) but it's all HD and from a variety of countries. Everyone here has been very kind to help me with the various issues I run into in FCP, so I hope this may help you-all. Free downloadable comps and all the clips can be downloaded upon purchase. thx...Jim Wattby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
I dumped my render files and re-rendered using the ProRes choice, but still on the DVCPROHD timeline. Still have the crash problem, so I'm going to do the next hour on a ProRes HQ timeline, render in Pro Res and see what happens, then export it to DVCPROHD. I may also try the "guest user" that you suggested. I've edited 10 one hour shows using XDCAM EX footage, both on a ProRes tiby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
Dumped the render files and am re-rendering in ProRes. Having a little time to ponder this issue...I normally edit on a ProRes HQ timeline, with prores render selected, but since the delivery requirement is DVCPROHD I chose that timeline. How practical would it be to edit the movie on a proRes or for that matter XDCAM EX timeline then put it on the DVCPROHD timeline? thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
Thanks..appreciate the advice. i'll give it a try. jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
this is the link, I don't think it printed on the last postby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
I put it up on yousendit.com, here is the link. I really appreciiate your help. thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
Hi Dave here is a copy of the problem report after the latest crash. Process: Final Cut Pro [676] Path: /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final Cut Pro Identifier: com.apple.FinalCutPro Version: 7.0.3 (7.0.3) Build Info: FCPApp-1008261348~8 Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [152] Date/Time: 2010-11-05 11:37by jwatt - Café LA
FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 12 years ago
I'm editing a one hour show with mostly XDCAM EX 1080/60i, 29.97 fps and a couple dozen Canon 1080/30P clips. Using the latest versions of FCP, Snow leopard and QT. Using a 2.3 GHX dual Quad core Macpro with a Kona 3 card and an Xserve raid for video drive & 10gigs of ram. Timeline is DVCPROHD/60i/29.97 for delivery to HDNET. Something in the system is not happy and it's making me crazyby jwatt - Café LA
50 cycle flicker but not? - 12 years ago
I'm editing some material shot in a lit cave in Vietnam and it has a 50 cycle flicker as if it were shot without the 100th of a second shutter. However I did shoot it with the shutter and while shooting was aware there was a problem. At the time, tried several different options to remove the flicker, but bottom line, was never successful. Anyone have a suggestion on how to correct this? I tby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP slowed to snail pace - 12 years ago
So for whatever reason and I'm not sure why, everything has speeded back up to normal. I did download Macaroni which is a small utility that manages Unix issues and possibly that has made a difference. I really don't have a clue why things improved, but not going to argue with it fixing itself. Thanks for all your help. Jim Wattby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP slowed to snail pace - 12 years ago
No background processes going on that I can find and no other computer hooked to the raid. Below is a snippet of messages I copied from console, but it's pretty much jibberish to me. 7/16/10 7:53:43 AM com.apple.WindowServer[98] Fri Jul 16 07:53:43 jim-watts-mac-pro.local WindowServer[98] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are loggby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP slowed to snail pace - 12 years ago
Hi Scott, Thanks for your help. I'm reading 10GB of ram. I reinstalled the Kona drivers and things seem to have speeded up some but i still don't think it's running at optimum speed and i don't see anything in the activity monitor that would cause this. thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: FCP slowed to snail pace - 12 years ago
System disk Capacity: 249.58 GB Available: 82.39 GB JW 500 GB Capacity: 499.76 GB Available: 313.84 Video Drive, Xserve Raid Capacity: 2.22 TB Available: 1.45 TB G-Raid Capacity; 1.5 TB Available: 1.17 TBby jwatt - Café LA
FCP slowed to snail pace - 12 years ago
All of a sudden FCP7 has slowed dramatically. I'm capturing DVCPROHD 1080/60i @ 29.97 fps from an HD 150 deck. When I launch the capture window it takes 10 or more seconds to come up, with the spinning beach ball, then when I finally get a clip captured and select it for batch capture (this is just one or two clips). it takes about 30 seconds of spinning beach ball before it gives me the capturby jwatt - Café LA
Re: Compressor won't complete 90 min 1080i to MPEG2 encode - 12 years ago
When I do this the encoding doesn't stop, but continues. My patience has only let me wait an hour, but it still didn't stop.by jwatt - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Compressor won't complete 90 min 1080i to MPEG2 encode - 12 years ago
Thanks for the info. I tried this and after I typed in "var/spool/qmaster" received the message that "folder can't be found". The other odd thing is that when I reset the back ground encoding the job would stop, but in a few seconds it started up again. Did this a couple of times and finally got it to stop long enough to delete it from history. Something seems &by jwatt - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Compressor won't complete 90 min 1080i to MPEG2 encode - 12 years ago
I have a 90 minute 1080i DVCPROHD movie that I exported from my timeline as a self contained movie and when I try to encode it with compressor the same way I've done several hundred other times Compressor will take the project up to the last couple of minutes of render time, then starts going backwards....basically the time to completion starts getting longer and my activity monitor shows that thby jwatt - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Kona 3 & DVCPROHD digitizing problem - 12 years ago
In the last few days I've run into a strange behavior while digitizing DVCPRO HD tapes. I'm using a Kona 3 card in a MacPro dual quad core, wi 10 gigs of ram & an Xserve Raid for video drive. Digitizing in DVCPROHD 29.97/1080i. The program goes thru the motions of digitizing and reports all is well, but the clip doesn't get digitized. trashed my FCP preferences, but still the same result.by jwatt - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 14 years ago
Jeff, Thank you very much for your concise and very understandable explanation. It explains why edit to tape also takes an inordinately longer time than our DVCPRO HD edit to tape sessions. Makes a lot of sense. I guess my next quandry is to just start with a ProRes HQ timeline or stay with the XDCAM EX long gop until export time. Thanks again, your insight is greatly appreciated. jby jwatt - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 14 years ago
Valid observation, and you may have found the problem. This program is quite similar to the others I've done in the past. Same style, pacing, etc., but the one thing there are more of here are traveling mattes, about 2 dozen, which may indeed be causing the slow down. there's a lot of on camera presentation cut into the show from our safari guide in his land cruiser so I used a custom gradieby jwatt - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 14 years ago
I upgraded when the last version came out, but had done an export just like this with that version and it went along just fine. I think I did do a reinstall of FC studio and all the updates since then, maybe i missed one. I'll check versions...FCp is 6.0.5 and QT is 7.6. thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 14 years ago
Thanks for the prompt replies, however we have had very good success and have read a number of posts that agree that staying in the XDCAM EX forma, but setting the render to pro res is the recommended way to edit this format. I've done it both ways and don't agree. We've edited 12, 1 hour shows staying in the XDCAM EX long GOP format, but with render set to Pro Res and they've worked great.by jwatt - Café LA
XDCAM EX 1 hr timeline very slow to export to QT movie - 14 years ago
I have a one hour XDCAM EX program that I'm exporting to a self contained QT movie. The dialog box tells me it's going to take 8 hours. In the past this same process normally takes less than an hour. Any ideas what the problem may be? Dual quad core Mac Pro/10 gigs ram/Video drive is apple raid (is a little full)/ Kona 3 card. Thx for any suggestions...jwby jwatt - Café LA
multicam wi XDCAM EX needs render to view during edit - 14 years ago
I'm doing a 3 camera multiclip edit with XDCAM EX 1080i/29.97, 35 mbs vbr, footage and when I put my multiclip on the timeline using safe rt/dynamic I get a red bar and it needs rendering to view. In unlimited RT/dynamic playback I get a yellow bar, but the quality is too poor to make edit decisions on focus etc.. I haven't done a multiclip for several months, but it seems that using DVCPRO Hby jwatt - Café LA
Re: RT for dissolve quits working in XDCAM EX timeline - 14 years ago
Thanks, and I have done that on this project a few times, but the point is why will using safe RT work for several edits then all of a sudden quit? Obviously something is going on with my system and I'm just trying to figure out what it is so it doesn't slip up and bite me when I don't expect it. thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
Re: RT for dissolve quits working in XDCAM EX timeline - 14 years ago
Thanks. I'm not sure, but this may have begun when I switched to QT 7.6. Different Jim Watt...I worked out of LA for NBC network news from '67-78 & now have our own company in Seattle area. thx...jwby jwatt - Café LA
RT for dissolve quits working in XDCAM EX timeline - 14 years ago
I'm editing a project in XDCAM EX 1080i/60, 35mbs. I have render set to ProRes, timeline is "Safe Rt"/dynamic playback. Every 6 or 10 edits my RT for dissolves turns from green to red, for no apparent reason. If I shut down, trash prefs with FCP rescue and restart the project, everything starts working again, but after awhile I get the same problem. Any clue what's going on or howby jwatt - Café LA
Repeated crashes exporting QT movie - 14 years ago
I have a 50 minute 1080i XDCAMEX 1080i60 VBR timeline that is repeatedly crashing my machine when I try to export a QT movie. Of course it generally happens in the last 10% of the export. I've also noticed an increased number of crashes when rendering pieces longer than 15 minutes or so. Any suggestions? I've tried trashing preferences and repairing disk permissions, trying to avoid reinstaby jwatt - Café LA
