A project ( made in FCE4) under 6 minutes long says it will take 2 hours to convert (usually it's around 5 minutes). I left it overnight to find an "unknown error" message. I'm in the process of doing it again but it still says it will take 2 hours. I converted a similar project the previous day in minutes.
Would lack of space on my hard drive have anything to do with it?
Thanks.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.3)
Hi
Two thoughts
• free space on - Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard disk ?
I never go less than 25Gb for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)
• Video-Codec used - Although some seems to work - they don't - and then it use to go this way.
What is Your material in
- Video Codec
- Photo file format
- Audio file format - I only use .aiff - never .mp3, .wma or other alient format
Yours Bengt W
Yes, lack of hard drive space could be the problem ... but ...
How about if you give us some specifics to go on?
see below
MartinR -
1. My Mac contains 2 memory slots, each of which accepts a 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory module.
2. hard drive capacity 750GB
3. Free : 94GB
4. I´m now usuing OS X 10.7.5
5. QT conversion settings are :
VIDEO H.264, frame rate : current, key frames : automatic, quality :best, data rate : automatic
SOUND : format : AAC, rate : 48,000 kHz, render settings - quality : normal, encoding strategy : constant bit rate, target bit rate : 128 kbps
Does this cast any light on the situation?
Thanks for your advice, Bengt!
1. How much RAM?
2. From your other post, you are likely editing H.264 material in a FCE timeline because it often causes problems on export.
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Studio X, you are everywhere?
As I've just posted in my other link I've got 2 RAM. How do I add to it?
Thanks.
Memory upgrades usually mean
- taking away them You've got and insert larger ones
BUT H.264 are no good idea - You are so much better of if You convert it to AIC or ProRES (I GUESS)
More RAM will not fix it.
Yours Bengt W
BWT - You say that You've got 2 RAM Modules - BUT NOT THE number of Gb in them can be 2 x 1 GB or 2 x 4 GB adding up to a very different sum ;)
Yours Bengt W
Hi Bengt,
I've got 2 x 1GB. So how do I convert to AIC or ProRes?
I would try first
MPEG Streamclip (free from Internet) and see if it can do it
or
QuickTime-Pro ($20 I think)
there are also to buy
Flip4Mac
Yours Bengt W
If you used FCE to directly import your clips from your HXR-MC 2000E, then they are already in AIC format. FCE automatically transcodes AVCHD video to AIC during Log & Transfer from the camcorder.
Easy way to tell - control-click one of your clips in the FCE Browser. Select "Item Properties" and look at what it says for "Compressor". If it says "Apple Intermediate Codec" then the clip is already in AIC format.
Note, FCE does not work with ProRes video, so it's no use converting to ProRes.
Why is converting my project to Quick Time Conversion not working
