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Ive got some footage shot from my Canon T2i (1080p @ 30fps) that ive edited the levels in to adjust the color. When I go to export it in Apple Pro Res 422 it works fine, the only problem is the file is MASSIVE. Ive got a 9 second clip that renders out to be 256.9mb. Considering the original footage is about 330mb per minute this is insanely large... My Mac has a hard time even playing the file without being choppy in the viewer or in quicktime, much less in FCP. At 28.5mb per second thats not really to surprising... Any suggestions?
MacBook:
Mac OS X 10.6.4
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3

First off...watch this: Tapeless Workflow for FCP 7 Tutorial
Second...the MASSIVE files, well, that is an EDITING codec. H.264 is a delivery codec...and in some cases an acquisition format. Not suited to editing. Sorry that ProRes is huge, but it is far less compressed than H.264, and easier to manage. If..
Thirdly...you have a fast enough hard drive to run it. Firewire 800 external drive at least.
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