King George Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Hello, I experience a strange problem with my Final Cut Studio 2. Basic video editing runs OK, rendering not very fast but all acceptable. But, when I apply the (very handy) smoothcam fxplug, the analyzing would take up to 24-25 hours on a clip that is only 30 seconds long! Strange thing is, if I import this clip into motion and apply the stabilize behaviour in there, analyzing is done in about 1 minute. I heard at school that some of these FXplugs would use GPU rendering (for the first time, finally!) so maybe the problem would be situated there (though my QE/CI support is OK of course...) Does anybody know how to fix this issue? Or, to start with, does anybody feel like trying this on their FCP 6? I'm working on a project where this function will be often required, so I'd really like to get this fixed... Thank you very much, KG Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66033-smoothcam-analyzing-really-slow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonokti Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 It takes long because it analyzes the entire tape not just the clip so if you captured 60min it analyzes the whole 60min not just the 30sec clip you chose. I'm not sure if there is a better way but what I do is export the 30sec clip as a Quicktime DV file and then import it, place it on my timeline and run smoothcam. I haven't found a solution to captured an entire tape and have FCP break up each start/stop as an individual file, I just capture the entire tape then apply the dv start/stop detect. BTW if anyone does know how to set it so it creates a new file at each start/stop besides manually adding in/out points and doing a batch capture let me know please. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66033-smoothcam-analyzing-really-slow/#findComment-469255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
King George Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense. There certainly is a way to have it making a new, shorter master clip, I've done it in the past. I'll look into it asap. grtz KG Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66033-smoothcam-analyzing-really-slow/#findComment-491798 Share on other sites More sharing options...
King George Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 mmm at first sight, exporting the clip and importing it again seems to be the only way to do this... The user manual also suggests this as the solution for faster smoothcam analysis. You can use a quicktime reference file to do this quickly (just unchecking "make movie self-contained" in the export window). This way, the operation is finished in seconds. If you have a whole project with lots of clips that need the smoothcam filter, you can always use the media manager to get rid of the extra material, but for just a few clips, exporting as a reference file seems to be the fastest way... I'll ask my professors at school if there might be another way. regards KG Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66033-smoothcam-analyzing-really-slow/#findComment-491845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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