HD footage & Multiclip Editing
by Ken Maxwell
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Apr 25, 2008 at 9:34:43 pm
I was writing to see if anyone has any suggestions for this problem I am having. I shot a music video and I am wanting to sync up all my different takes. This isn't the problem. I make a multiclip and am ready to go but once I drag it to the timeline and start editing it is slow, says it is dropping frames then stops.Basically it just doesn't work.I have adjusted the playback mode to low and that doesn't help.I have a macbook pro laptop.Its about a year old with a 2.8 ghz processor and 2 gb of ram.I have the footage running from my external with firewire 400.It was shot with a HD sony camera.
Re: HD footage & Multiclip Editing by David Perry on Apr 25, 2008 at 10:43:23 pm
Sounds like your FW drive is just too slow. Are you using DVC Pro HD? It should work but maybe not depending on your FW drive. I know ProRes 422 will not work for me on a laptop and external FW. You would need at least a 7200 rpm drive and esata would be much better. I don't think it is the laptop that is the problem. DVC Pro is only 100 meg and FW 400 give you ... well. 400.
Re: HD footage & Multiclip Editing by Ken Maxwell on Apr 25, 2008 at 11:29:26 pm
I have another external that has fw800. I will try that and see if it fixes the problem. Are there any secret settings I can adjust to allow me to run all those at once as far as the computers performance
