Going to offline after having captured and worked on line

	Re: Going to offline after having captured and worked on line by Ernie Santella on Oct 24, 2009 at 4:16:33 pm It sounds like something is wrong that you are having freezing issues. What kind of computer? How fast/large is your RAID? Is your RAID over 3/4 full? That could cause the issues you've mentioned. Personally, with drives so cheap, I would never work in Low-rez. You could consider breaking your project into smaller segments. Or, Export parts that are nearly complete and re-import them as standalone segments. Those will playback much easier. (But, saving the original timelines if you need to go back and re-edit.) Ernie Santella Santella Productions Inc. www.santellaproductions.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Going to offline after having captured and worked on line by David Roth Weiss on Oct 24, 2009 at 10:31:58 pm [Miriam Altounji] "don't most people work offline first? " They did when hard drives storage was $1000 per gigabyte - it's 7-cents now. They did when computer processors were 120mhz - they are now 3ghz with up to 8 multithreaded cores. They do when they're working with 2K, 4K, or uncompressed HD. However, no one today offlines when editing DV or HDV. Offlining is designed to increase efficiency, bit offlining DV or HDV is not in the least bit an efficient use of either time or resources. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative COW's Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: Going to offline after having captured and worked on line by walter biscardi on Oct 24, 2009 at 10:41:15 pm [Miriam Altounji] "Now, 2 years later - still shooting and adding, the project is becoming too large, rendering times are extremely slow, and something as simple as adding text freezes the entire project. " What you really need is project management and a very fast hard drive RAID. A large project such as yours should have been broken up into multiple smaller projects to help manage the performance of your machine. Shane Ross' Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro is a DVD available here on the Cow and he has some outstanding strategies for working on project such as yours. In fact we're following one of his strategies right now on a documentary with over 200 hours of material shot over 4 years in Africa. I can't recommend that enough. This project is being cut concurrently on a new Mac Pro and an older iMac with great performance speeds on both. Now in terms of "starting over" with an offline codec, well HDV is so small nothing is really any smaller. You could capture in DV, but that's only a marginal savings in hard drive space. I definitely would NOT take anything offline at this point. One idea you could try is to create a Duplicate Project and simply delete any Sequences and media you don't need in that new Project. Keep all the stuff in an older project. Sequences especially slow down the performance of a project. The more Sequences, the slower the project. Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author. HD Post and Production Biscardi Creative Media "Foul Water, Fiery Serpent" now in Post. Creative Cow Forum Host: Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital. Blog! Twitter! Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index