I'm Hooped!! SoundtrackPro don't work!!!

Staven

Staven

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I don't think there is a fix to my problem, but maybe someone can tell me why I'm getting screwed.

I've been cutting a feature on a powerbook. It's only a 75 minute film. so far everything has gone great. I bought the final cut studio, and after learning how(at least I thought) Final Cut and SoundtrackPro work together I spent a lot of time getting my audio ready to send over to SoundtrackPro. Finally when I was set, I selected the entire project then clicked send to multitrack soundtrackproject.

The program would never open. It would go through 10 minutes of gathering everything it needed, then just sit thinking... eventually I'd force quit after another 10 minutes of nothing.

Repeated process many times, same result. I then tried sending sections of the film. This worked... but once in the program it would have extremely long thinking moments, I couldn't play through 30 seconds without it glitching.

My deduction is my computer isn't fast enough, though I can't seem to find any info telling me this. 1.67gh g4 powerbook. single processor... maybe that's the problem?

I know not too many of you are using this program, but if anyone has any insight, it's greatly appreciated.
 
Definitely a horsepower issue- one major drawback to Soundtrack is also it's greatest strength. Everything you do in Soundtrack is non-destructive- meaning you are not altering the original media files. The bad news is that means any original audio file you have in your FCP timeline will be loaded in its entirety. That means you'll be looking at massive amounts of audio data which is way more than a Powerbook can deal with. Best bet is to migrate to a G5 or break the work into very small segments- like 10 minute chunks.

Noah
 
If you have to, why not render out each track seperately and import them to mix in FCP. There's options. You could also mix out each track and do a mixdown elsewhere in ProTools. Dont give up.

J Patnaude
 
I would recommend doing sound editing/mixing in chuncks as Noah described. That is common in the industry anyway. Films are mixed in reels of 20 minutes or so. So, I would use that same workflow. Break your film up into segments and work at a segment at a time.

Also, when horsepower is an issue, you may want to also follow the traditional method of doing stem mixing. First you do dialogue, then backgrounds, then FX, then music, etc. Then bring each stem in for a final mix. That keeps things organized and less overwhelming. And your machine will be happier.

steve
 
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