Preparing video for Flash

I have some video that I have prepared to play in Flash on a website, but I am having mucho problems getting Flash to recognize the files I want to play. I am using the Final Cut Studio - FCP to prep, and Compressor to encode. I must be doing something wrong encoding or preparing the video for Flash. I'd use Adobe Encoder, but it doesn't compress anywhere close to the efficiency necessary, so I'm trying to properly perpare them in Compressor.
Any suggestions/tips?

I was using Compressor for all my encoding, but I finally just gave up on that and used the Adobe Media Encoder. I admit, it works better than I gave it credit for. So everything works fine now, but I'm a little surprised that Flash doesn't readily ingest codecs from Compressor. Encoder works fine, but Compressor defintely gives you a better 'bang for the buck' IRT quality vs. file size.
Thanks for the help.

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i am using FCP 5.0.4. my whole project is 5mb and the sequence is 4 minutes long. got some effects but nothing major at this point. i'm worried it'll get much worse as i add effects and layers.
does anyone know what may be causing this or how can i make this process faster?
is it something that can be adjusted in the settings?
it doesn't seem normal. i've never seen anything like this in AVID...
thanks...

I'm at a loss at this point.
2 things...exactly what version of QT are you running? (may/may not make a difference)
Then, here are a couple of links for ways to trash preferences. Since you're on FCP 5.0.4, you should be good with the Anders Holck FCP Rescue 5.
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http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/pref_man.htm
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html
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Need help with rendering my files..."preparing video for display."

I don't know if I sent something to the trash folder from Final Cut, but for some reason all of my files in the timeline are unrendered, and every time I render them a message appears saying that it is "preparing video for display," and then they are unrendered again. What is this? Did I send something to the trash folder that keeps doing this? Is it a settings mode? Does it have to do with the space on my drives?

I'm having the same problems.
A friend of mine told me to trash the render files and re-render my whole project. He finds it some times gets rid of some of the glitches when you render along the way in steps.
I trashed the render files and of course the project says I need to re-render which I do. I can save the project, close it, and when it opens I get the "preparing video for display". Once that's done it has nothing rendered at all.
So I re-render, and its fine. I tab to another window and then back and it gives me the same message, completes and all my stuff is un-rendered.
So now I have a project that every time I render it can't save it or somehow it deletes the render files if I tab out of the program.

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That's usually a sign that your graphics card is not keeping up.
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I've been working in this project for almost two years. Now, I'm doing the subtitles in Final cut from Spanish to English for almost two months now, almost half way through the movie so I get a lot of renders done everyday. Since last Week my projects get stuck at "Preparing video for display". I usually go to the Autosave Vault, for some reason one of the project open, and I start working again from the hour or two of work I lost. But, whenever the projects get's to Autorender, the same message displays again, and the damned beachball appears and all goes to ****. I can't get anywork done, I've lost a lot of hours worth of work and I'm facing a deadline. I've tried trashing the preferences, but nothing. So before I drive my car into a tree i wanted to at least submit the question, to you.
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My guts are saying that you've a bit of an unstable installation going on, causing the instability... the fix is to perform a clean install and try working with that. You can build a new startup disk on a firewire drive or on another internal drive or partition, leaving your current startup disk alone... safest way to test this hypothesis... I'd also not install Lion if you're going to run FCP 6. Best setup for FCP 6 is likely Leopard or Snow Leopard. In reality it can be argued that the version of FCP that you are running will run the best on the OS it was written for in the first place. Which, for FCP 6, is likely 10.5.x.
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Everything has been working fine, but then I downloaded two plugins – Fx Factory and Sugar Fx MAgimoto. I have since deleted them, but no change in fcp.
Now when I try to open ANY fcp document all it says is "Reading Project... preparing video for display."
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In addition, try repairing permissions and trashing preferences.
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Deleting FCP Preferences:
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So starting within the last three days I have been having issues with a 'Preparing video for display' message/progress bar coming up whenever I move clips in a timeline, the same message that usually only comes up when a project is being loaded for the first time. This was never something I have had to deal with before, and each time it happens I have a three to five second delay for it to do whatever it is that it is doing. (It adds up.) Is this something that is supposed to happen or can I (please) make it stop somehow.
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Hi
I am experiencing a problem opening 2 of the fcp projects I've been working on in the last week. When opening everything seems to work fine, I see all the sequences opening, but when the 'preparing video for display' window appears it stays forever and I have to forcequit the application.
Opening FCP without existing projectfile works fine. Also opening different older projects. Just the 2 recent projects are experiencing this problem. I still worked on them yesterday night and didn't do anything strange after.
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I've been trying to delete preference files but nothing works.
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When clips are moved or composited, FCP has to prepare that video for display in the Canvas. If you're working in Unlimited RT - as most of us are - then you're asking FCP to work harder at doing just that. And, unlike Motion, FCP doesn't use the GPU whole-hog, so it's easy to max that resource out quickly with large images.
The only real way to prevent this from happening when you're moving clips is to toggle Caps Lock on, disabling rendering. I don't think this is particular conducive to most workflows either (especially if you're compositing), but if all you need to do is resequence existing elements, it might work for you.
The other possibility is to use lower-resolution proxy images but that, like everything else, isn't really an answer...

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I've used FCP for countless projects but haven't ever tried to put hundreds of stills into the timeline for a final result that looks like what free software packages produce for consumer camera stills. I have a number of questions related to achieving this result, but I'll start with this.
The 'preparing for display' message comes up when I move chunks of pictures around. It freezes all activity until it's done (rendering?), and usually the action that led to it is a minor thing that still needs further manipulation. Would it help to reduce the resolution of the stills? How do I do that all at once? There are too many to treat individually.
Thanks for letting me know how to stop getting my process hijacked!
It is really slowing me down, and I'm on deadline.
With much appreciation,
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2. in System settings, increase your stills cache. By default it is around 10% of FCP's RAM. If you have 4GB or more in the machine, your RAM available to FCP should be set at 100% and you may want to bump up the stills cache to 50% (or more if the project is mostly stills). Do not raise it to 100% as you have to leave some free ram for the program.
Along with what Russ has suggested, you should get better performance. You need to be realistic though. FCP is a video editor, not a slideshow generater. If the work is a slideshow, there are better tools.
Have fun.
x

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