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Yes that's right, set up the scratch files, and then "save project as" destination External Hard Drive. As for the choppy playback, probably got something to do with same thing.
Paul On 16 May 2006, at 22:19, Bill Streeter wrote: Yes Richard,
You'll find that you get much better performance if you are working
from an external firewire rather than your internal HD. Especially
since you are working on a PowerBook that only has a 5400 RPM drive
in it. And by this I mean going into your settings in FCP and
setting your scratch disk to your firewire and saving and rendering
all your work files to the firewire drive. This is recomended even
if you are working on a desktop but really important if you are
working on a PowerBook with a slow internal drive.
Bill Streeter
LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
www.lofistl.com
--- In [email protected], "Richard (Show) Hall"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> Very helpful, and I have one particular question about your
suggestions
>
> You said
>
>
> "Make sure that your save file is located on another Hard drive
than the
> one your operating system is on, preferably connected via
firewire."
>
> ... really? ... it just so happens that I just got an external
hard drive
> connected via fire wire ... I'm not sure what you mean by
the "save file" ..
> do you mena the project file? the clips? ... this is really
interesting, I
> thought that I would just use the external drive to back stuff up
after I
> finished ...
>
> On 5/16/06, Paul Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> > Yes, turning the Unlimited RT on is a good idea.
> > There are other things I have found that helps speed up the
rendering
> > process:
> >
> > 1. Make every clip(all those AVI or MOV or WMV) you import into
a DV file,
> > before hand using Quicktime. If you are importing straight from
a DV
> > camcorder, the file is already in DV format and you get away
with doing
> > things to it before requiring a render.
> >
> > 2. Make sure that your save file is located on another Hard
drive than
> > the one your operating system is on, preferably connected via
firewire.
> >
> > 3. Render each bit as you go along, rather than waiting to
render at the
> > end.
> >
> > 4. If you are green screening or using color correction these do
take
> > time, but avoid long peices of footage between cuts, in fact I
have found if
> > it is a long bit there is nothing wrong with chopping it into
smaller pieces
> > before you edit. Then copy over the setting onto the next
segment.
> >
> > 5. I have also found that due to the nature of this beast we
call FCP, it
> > is sometimes almost necessary in some instances of rendering to
just get up
> > from the computer and go and make a cup of coffee or tea, walk
around the
> > house, mow the lawn, walk the dog, go down the shops for a
newspaper etc,
> > and by the time you get back the thing will be finished
rendering, it's just
> > the way it is.
> >
> > 6. You can however if you click on your canvas box just above
the
> > playback controls and use your mouse wheel you can see what the
thing will
> > look like frame by frame if you wish.
> >
> > Hope this helped.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 16 May 2006, at 21:12, Zadi wrote:
> >
> > Hey Richard:
> >
> > On the upper left-hand side of your sequence timeline there is a
> > little button with the letters "RT" and a downward facing carrot.
> >
> > Set your timeline to "Unlimited RT"
> > Playback video quality to "Medium" or "Low"
> > Playback Frame-Rate to "Half" or "Quarter"
> >
> > Now you don't have to render anything until you're happy with the
> > outcome. More process driven effects may have to be rendered
though.
> > But it helps greatly.
> >
> > Zadi
> > http://smashface.com/vlog
> > http://vidlicious.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Richard (Show) Hall"
> > <richard@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ok, now I want to be clear that I am not posting a technical
question in
> > > support of the "out to lunch" post ... I am all for, and have
been quite
> > > enjoying, the far ranging and captivating dialogue on the VLOG
list
> > ... as
> > > for my opinion on these matters, my friends disagree, and I
always agree
> > > with my friends ...
> > >
> > > ... anyway ... my trivial/technical/FCP rookie question.
> > >
> > > I was complaining to some more skilled FCP users about the way
you
> > have to
> > > wait seven years (a slight exageration) for almost everything
to
> > render in
> > > FCP before you could preview it with the video while editing,
whereas in
> > > Premier it would show you a pretty reasonable (though not as
accurate)
> > > preview while you were editing and would wait and do all the
> > rendering at
> > > the end.
> > >
> > > One or more of these FCP experts told me that there was a
setting in FCP
> > > that would make it so that you could preview without this exact
> > rendering,
> > > more like Premier.
> > >
> > > I emailed some of these experts, and, since they did not
respond
> > within 10
> > > seconds, I grew impatient and decided to pose this question to
the list.
> > >
> > > Any help, as always would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Richard, the impatient FCP rookie ...
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