Beach Ball... Hierarchy? or ProResHQ?

	Re: Beach Ball... Hierarchy? or ProResHQ? by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:31:31 pm [Charles Breiner] "I suspect one of two things either, the ProRes HQ is too high a resolution for FCP to handle, or I have all the media stored in a single folder and that the system needs more of a hierarchy with the media broken up better in order to keep track of everything... " Both of those are wrong. ProRes HQ is a very easy format for most any Intel system to play. You want all your media in one folder as assigned by FCP, generally this is one capture scratch folder. How much room is available on that media array? For large projects, it can help to break it up into multiple projects. For a documentary I'm editing now that has over 75 hours of material, we have one Capture Scratch folder that we capture all raw media in to. Then for each section of the Documentary I create a separate project and only bring in the media from the Capture Project that I need for that particular section. Shane Ross' Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro DVD covers some great techniques for managing large projects. It's available in the Cow store. I own it and that's where I got that particular project management idea. Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author. Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards. Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post Biscardi Creative Media Creative Cow Forum Host: Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. Read my Blog! Twitter! Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Beach Ball... Hierarchy? or ProResHQ? by Rafael Amador on Aug 16, 2009 at 12:34:15 am I agree with Walter. I don't think is the codec neither the media organization. I would suggest a bit of system/HDs maintenance: DiskWarrior, TechTools,.. rafael www.nagavideo.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index