Corrupt Sequence? - Out of Memory Error rendering time lapse

FCP can not work with anything over 4K. Resize your images to match your sequence settings. Leave them a little bigger if you plan on zooming into them at all.

> I've got a time lapse converted to ProRes LT @ full resolution (5184 x 3456) so I can do some zoom/pans. <

As SoCal says below, you can't do this in FCP.

But you want to reconsider your project's design. You've captured your still images on a DSLR and you've processed them from the original raw or TIFF to jpeg, probably, to make the creation of the image sequence simple and more or less bombproof. Allow me to ask you why you think you want to scale to 400-800%?

A 5k x 3.5k image contains almost 18 million pixels (that's whole LOT of pixels), a 1920 x 1080 video frame contains only about 2 million pixels. Doing the math, roughly 80% of your image sequence's pixels are going to waste as you scale it to fit your video window. If you need to do a push in to full pixel-to-pixel rez, figure out a way to do it without forcing the rest of your project to be so inefficient. If you need to maintain that magnification, you need to shoot with a different lens or crop you image as you do the QT image sequence.

Do you know anyone with After Effects? AE does't care how big your image sequence is. AE will digest anything.

bogiesan

Message was edited by: David Bogie Chq-1

As said above, youre overstressing your system doing timelapses like this, even speeding up that kind of file size. I use motion for this kind of thing in the following way

1. set up a 1920x1080 project in motion

2. import your image sequence

3. resize, do pans, zooms etc in motion

4. save your motion project to same location as the stills,

5. export a 1920x1080 prores quicktime again to same location as stills

now cut away with your new timelapse quicktime (and do speed changes if you wish), and if you need to amend anything go back to the saved motion project and tweak (or use motion on a round trip). its a robust and stress free way of doing what you want.

hey there. tangential question, but sounds like you'll all know the answer:

My footage is ProRes and 5760px wide, but my FCP 7.0.3 wont allow me to make a sequence who's width is more than 4096px wide.

Looks like you guys aren't having any trouble using images over that size.

HOW DO YOU DO IT???

Thanks

toop

Here's the thing. When they say that you shouldn't work with images about 4000x4000, (or for example, try to edit h264 natively), it doesn't mean that it won't work. What it does mean, is that it will not always work. Many people have non-standard workflows that are successful for a while, but eventually, they're gonna have problems.

thing is it actually DOESN'T work. I put in a width of 5760px and it won't accept it. When i 'okay' it, it reverts back to 4098px.

I guess this doesn't mean it won't work. but there's no way of telling whether it will, because i won't allow me to try!

Thanks for caring tho!

x

My post was directed at the OP, who says he works with oversize image files all the time, but now is having a problem.