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Hawk Teflon

Hawk Teflon

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So I'm editing a video, working some Ken Burns magic into some photos, rendering as I go. I have plenty of harddrive space (750GB-ish left), but all of a sudden, I'm getting 30 minute render times. It shouldn't even be 1 minute. That's what it's been all week. It's like the processor just quit. Can that happen? What can I do to speed this up?

I've shut down and restarted everything. Now it's taking FCP 20 minutes to load.

EDIT: "Estimated Time: About 5 hours"
 
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Well what are you rendering? HD? SD? Any special plugins being used like Magic Bullet or something? All of these properties factor in on your rendering time but the hard drive space doesn't just as long as you have the space to store.
 
Nope. Just a stupid picture. 4MB picture. No plug ins ... just a picture where I've changed the value on scale and center.

All video footage is fine, and it's all SD. But these are pictures that HAVE to be included.
 
There is no need for a 4 MB still.

Video does not care about dpi. It cares about grid size. As 300 dpi still won't look any better than a 1 dpi still.
 
That's just the picture they gave me. I have loads of them ... a few hundred. But for some reason, everything is just slow now.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
That's just the picture they gave me. I have loads of them ... a few hundred. But for some reason, everything is just slow now.
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It's slow because FCP is chugging on all those large image files. Open the files up in something like Photoshop, resize them (or make resized copies) into SD size (or slightly larger if you need to do pans and zooms on them) and bring those back into FCP. Just as a point of comparison, SD video is generally comparable to the lowest image size settings on digital cameras. Scaling a 3,072 x 2,304 digital photo down to 720x480 in an SD timeline will bring FCP to its knees.


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adkimery said:
It's slow because FCP is chugging on all those large image files. Open the files up in something like Photoshop, resize them (or make resized copies) into SD size (or slightly larger if you need to do pans and zooms on them) and bring those back into FCP. Just as a point of comparison, SD video is generally comparable to the lowest image size settings on digital cameras. Scaling a 3,072 x 2,304 digital photo down to 720x480 in an SD timeline will bring FCP to its knees.


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what?? no way. i use 4k stills all the time and it's not an issue. what system? my imac g5 single 2.0ghz renders large stills super fast. my octo mac pro doesn't even need to render.

EDIT: just saw the OP said it's taking fcp 20 mins. to load. you mean just to start up? sounds like u need to trash your prefs. if that doesn't fix, try re-installing. if fcp is taking more than a minute to start up, something is very wrong.
 
admikery is right. Using 4k stills is okay if you're not doing any motion on them, but once you start doing ken burns style zooms FCP will slow down. Also, make sure they are compressed. For an SD project I'd say downscale them to 2k in JPEG format at medium quality so you have some room to pan and zoom. An easy way to do that is just bring them into iphoto, and export them at the Large setting.
 
If you need to resize loads of photos, use automator to create a little app. That way you can just drag to the app to resize.
 
Hawk Teflon said:
That's just the picture they gave me. I have loads of them ... a few hundred. But for some reason, everything is just slow now.
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It's slow because FCP is having to resize all those huge 4 MB photos.

Make copies of the folder that holds them, and do a batch image size down to a more manageable file size at 1 dpi.

Test it, and see what happens.
 
David S. said:
It's slow because FCP is having to resize all those huge 4 MB photos.

Make copies of the folder that holds them, and do a batch image size down to a more manageable file size at 1 dpi.

Test it, and see what happens.
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I would, but I have no idea what you just said.
 
Resize! is the easiest application I've ever used to batch re-size image's, and it's free. Just point to a folder of image's, specify the size you want, press go, and a new folder is made with all images sized. It's like magic I tell ya, magic ;)
 
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