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Reconnected Media Doesn't stay reconnected - 15 years agoHow can I make reconnected media stay reconnected? Every time I open up FCP I have to reconnect the same media one file at a time before FCP will open properly. The files in question were on a DVD and I removed the DVD once, while working on a separate project with the project in question actually closed as far as I was concerned. On returning to that project I reinserted the disc and reconnecby LWGray - Café LA Re: Round Tripping Problem - 15 years agoYes, I'm sending a clip from FCP to Motion. And then going back to FCP. Ah Project Properties under Edit! Thanks. I've re-set that to 1920/1080 XD Cam... I'll see if that solves the problems.by LWGray - Motion Round Tripping Problem - 15 years agoHi, I'm using the PMW EX1 Camera and editing in its native format. When I "round trip" with a motion file to the time line Motion needs rendering and sometimes freezes. If I return to Motion to editing an element in the motion file and then go back to FC, I have black screen. I note the resolution for the Motion file is 1280x720 rather than the 1080p setting that I have on theby LWGray - Motion Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoHi, according the Andy Mees the 1080i is the Pixel Aspect Ration and as it should be. There seems no way to change that! In fact there seems no way to change the resolution setting in Motion. You can export to quicktime with the identical settings to the time line but you can't "Round Trip" to the time line without it defaulting to 1280X720... If someone knows how to set that,by LWGray - Café LA Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoHere's what I have in the sequence settings: 1920x1080 HDTV 1080i(16:9) XDCAM EX 1080p25 (35mb/sVBR) And I have three kinds of clips on the time line: Motion 1280X720 64.6 K/sec Sq. Straight. Normal. Apple Pro Res 422 1440x1080 12.8 mb/sec HD(1440x1080) upper odd, none, normal XDCAM Ex 1080p25(33mb/s VBR) 1920x1080 I'd say the XDCam files aren't giving me as much trouby LWGray - Café LA Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years ago422! How many times have I looked at that and read H22! Hmm. You say you get preview quality real rime performance without render... I'm rendering all the time!!! Move something on the time line and you have to render. Bring something in from motion and you have to render... How can I set that so that I'm not forever rendering to get any play back? As far as I can work out I've got the sby LWGray - Café LA Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoShows you what a noob I am... my camera's a PMW EX1 WHich might account for a bit of the confusion here. Anyway, I'm pretty much assuming that FC converts it's native format to a Quicktime variant. But is it Pro Res H22? The render setting gives me the option between whatever is on the timeline and setting that says Pro Res H22 HDV/HD XDCAM only... (Hence the momentary confusion aby LWGray - Café LA Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoIs there a difference between the Pro Res H22 that is HDV/HD XDCAM only - in the render control it gives this option - and the standard Pro Res H22? I'm importing with the Apple XDCAM Res and telling it to edit in the same format. I'm asking because my Mac Pro is stuttering on this and having difficulty rendering... freeze ups etc. Especially when I export to Motion and come back with aby LWGray - Café LA Re: PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoAnd the Codec I should use?by LWGray - Café LA PMW1 XDCAM - what's the best format to edit in? - 15 years agoI envision two types of output for what I want to do... output for broadcast TV or output that can be used to make a film print. So what formats should I edit in?by LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoFinally reinstalled everything. ANd yes, it is all a lot faster. The menus get populated in a more acceptable time. It still aint as fast as the old iMacs used in the class I'm going to for editing. Despite all the RT Unlimited and Dynamic settings, it needs to render motion files before it can play them. And is sometimes reluctant to offer me tool variants when clicking on the various icons fby LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoWell... re-formatted the disks as you said... now installing the OS and updating it...by LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoWell, finally I'm getting round to doing it. Using Motion etc. was impossible on the machine. Everything just crashed. So I'm finally biting the bullet and reformatting everything... I've maxed out all my extra storage disks and decided I can lose some stuff. So here goes...by LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoI'll try reducing the autosave. But I work fast and do throw things around, and lose the thread if interrupted. I don't have a professional work flow I know. But it's what I do. When it crashes it loses everything in the present session and I have to return either to the last autosaved position. If I didn't then it would be the last saved position. Could it be the HD overload is the problemby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoHmm... Crashes at least once every time I'm using it. And on opening it's lost the edit and the recent project list. Didn't get much joy with Apple support who seemed to think this within the limits of tolerance... regular saving was the answer to the problem. And no, I'm not running with a full disk or anything near full... I go through the check list with every phone call. No I haven't third pby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoI save. I have backups. And the autosave is on as an additional safety measure because without it, I lost edits. With it I don't. I see no reason why I should waste time and for that matter FC, as people tell me and as I believe, should not crash in the first place. And yes, if they could come up with a decent programme that edited it all for me, then I'd go for it! And given how many timby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoOne should be able to remember a lot of things... but it's so much easier to have the machine do it for you and not waste the time. I'm compiling a file on the crashes trying to work out why... ran various tests but they haven't shown anything. The machine is brand new so should be replaced, but only if I can actually demonstrate that it has a problem. And that's not easy with random events.by LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoAfraid this seems the best way of avoiding losing stuff.by LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoI've been working on some projects after getting Compressor working... clean uninstall and then reinstall everything! I hope I can avoid that sort of time consuming action for a while. It seems to be working reasonable well at the moment. Though I have managed to crash FCpro once since then and for some reason it lost all it's contents and the Recent Project menu lost its content. Luckily Iby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoNothing else is on. It's brand new. The only thing on it is the usual Safari, Mail etc. and FC Studio 2by LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoOptions: Reply To This Message?Quote This Message?Reply via PM?Follow This Thread?Report This Message Re: Not having a good time... new Posted by: Kozikowski (IP Logged) Date: June 17, 2008 11:22PM <<<We all assume the internal drive that came with your Mac is where the AL your apps and OS reside?>>> I didn't see an answer to that question. Your System Drive is a nice fby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoI'm trying to deal with as near to uncompressed HD as you can get plus I have plans for using 4K cameras and that's where I thought I'd need as big a work space as possible... Upgrading my whole operation to industrial standard equipment is proving a steep learning curve... But... gotta do it. Call it my mid-life crisis. Others buy a fast car. Me, I buy a big camera. I did wonder if Spotlby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoIt seems to be that one problem was solved by creating another problem. All my drives are internal. I just took the package off the Apple web site that their salesguy said was recommended for Final Cut Studio. I doubt the Bella has much to do with the Compressor but maybe the compressor doesn't like working with the Raid... who knows! Anyway, if this reinstall doesn't get the Compressorby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoOriginal problem... it just seemed too slow. And crashed. Since I was faced with reinstalling I thought I'd set up the RAID system... my system has four Terrabyte disks. So I followed instructions, which implied superior performance if I created everything as a single volume. Since then I've learnt that I probably should have left a boot disk separate. Though i have to say it seems no fasby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoHm, I thought I had trashed all the files.... Though I couldn't actually find all of the components it said should be in the library. But then again I've been having problems with the machine not populating the contents of its files very quickly... I did wait ten minutes to make sure everything was there but... I can see I'll have to reformat the discs and start from scratch, sigh, yet agaiby LWGray - Café LA Re: Not having a good time... - 15 years agoDone all that. So I'm reinstalling... but the disc from Final Cut Studio 2 didn't give me the option to just reinstall Compressor, and apparently you have to reinstall Motion as well. It's reinstalling everything right this moment and I wonder if I missed something here. Is there a way of just telling it to reinstall the one component instead of having to leave it running for two days?by LWGray - Café LA Not having a good time... - 15 years agoI have to admit that I'm not having a good time with my Final Cut and Mac Pro. I've reformatted the discs and reinstalled three times now... and when I finally thought I had the thing at least functioning if not exactly zipping along like I expected I found that Compressor wouldn't work and the trouble shooting advice is to do a complete uninstall and reinstall. I assumed I could simply reinstby LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoYes, I've got the 4x1 TB Hitachi set up. Oh well, there goes my weekend! I'll give that a try. Thanks.by LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoYes I have the system on the Raid 1. THe instructions with the machine implied that I would improve performance by setting up my disks in a Raid configuration and RAID utility simply gave me two options - max safety or max performance. I took it at its word. Essentially you think this is the problem... Anyone else give a definitive yes on this? Like I said I Apple's Support guys didn't knowby LWGray - Café LA Re: Newbie question on best set up for using Studio 2 - 15 years agoPulling some RAM? What do you mean? Removing it? Any idea whether the RAID configuration could be slowing things down? Four disks getting up to speed might be a problem. No separate boot disk... would that cause a problem? Nobody at APple seemed to know.by LWGray - Café LA |
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