Wanted: Editing Expert

[Kate Hunter]

Hi everyone,

I've been running into problems with a retouched 3 minute, 2k, 20gb quicktime file that I've been trying to import and edit in either premiere or Final cut. I've spent the last 3 days trying to figure it out. The video is skippy when I try to preview it. I've tried to make proxy's - But I can't seem to get them to work.

At this point I'd be happy to pay someone to help me. Possibly via i-chat screen share. Please PM me to let me know what you would charge and when you would be available. I'd love to get this solved asap. I don't think it would take too long for someone who really knows these programs and is experienced with different workflows.

I know this sort of thing might not be the most appealing job to an expert - but I would really be grateful if anyone out there would be able to help me out for an hour or so. I've searched google, forums, posted, and I just don't know what else to do.

Thanks,

Kate Hunter
using a 2x3 ghz quad core intel with 32 gb of ram and 2tb of scratch.

 

[Solomon Schechman]

Im no expert but if you can import it to final cut have you tried to cutting a smaller clip from the bigger one and exporting it and seeing if their is an actual problem with the file? I have had the skipping problem from having a slow computer but yours should be fine.

Hope this is remotely helpful.

 

[Paul Hazlett]

Even with a fast machine, if the Hard drives its playing from are not fast enough it will not play smoothly.

Are you using a card to playback as well? black magic Matrox or AJA cards are usually used to do the heavy lifting on large high data rate files.

 

[christopher witzke]

export it down to a smaller size and see if it still skips.... if not, then it's a horsepower issue.... if it does, then it's problem with the file.

 

[Kate Hunter]

Thanks everyone for all of your help - It was a hard drive issue. We copied our source file over to a faster 4 hard drive raid and now it's working fine. I suppose the hard drive we were using wasn't fast enough. It's hard to believe it was that simple.

Thanks again!