FCPX taking FOREVER to share HD movie

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FCPX taking FOREVER to share HD movie

My 2011 MBP has been processing a 75-minute HD movie for the past FORTY hours, and it's only 66% done. By my calculations, it'll take 60 hours to complete it (if I'm lucky!) which works out at a whopping 48 minutes per minute.

In the past, I used to leave it overnight and it would be finished in the morning. Any ideas welcome. It's still precessing by the way i.e. it hasn't frozen. And there are no other applications running in the background. I've 4Gb RAM, and yes, the original footage is on the MBP spinning hard drive.

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 4GB 1333 MHz

Posted on Dec 7, 2012 9:27 AM

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Pádraig Author

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Dec 7, 2012 9:42 AM in response to Pádraig

I'm using 2 titles effects that I hadn't used before : Splash & Pointer List

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Russ H

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Dec 7, 2012 11:02 AM in response to Pádraig

Well, I would say something is definitely wrong. On an OK (but not great) iMac, I would expect what you describe to export in better than real time. But I'm referring to outputting a Pro Res master file.

What kind of export are you doing? What was your source and what was your "destination"?

Russ

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Pádraig Author

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Dec 7, 2012 11:11 AM in response to Russ H

The export is "Apple Devices 1080p"

The source is AVCHD 1080i/50 footage on the MBPs hard drive

The destination is same as source, to the desktop

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Russ H

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Dec 7, 2012 2:16 PM in response to Pádraig

I'm guessing it may be struggling with the conversion from interlaced to progressive. (I work in interlaced so seldom these days that I don't have much to compare to.)

You may want to test a couple of alternative workflows. (Just take a 5 minute section of your interlaced project in the interest of time.)

1) Creating a progressive FCPX and pasting the section into that.

2) If you have Compressor, exporting the 5 minute section from your current project as a master file bringing that into Compressor and applying the Apple Device preset.

Russ

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SushiP

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Dec 15, 2013 3:25 PM in response to Pádraig

I would suggest using Apple ProRes(LT) instead of H.264.

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