FCP help? 1414 Responses

Last post: 3 months ago | Thread started: Jul 3, 08, 7:21 a.m.

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• PIITB

  I have been editing a video for work but final cut is being a bitch. I keep getting dropped frames and I cant scrub through the project when editing without skipping. I searched online for answers and tried what apple suggests but I still get no solution. Anybody else have any ideas?

  Jul 3, 08, 7:21 a.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  what kind of machine and setup do you have?

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:22 a.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  I'm on a mac pro that I bought a month ago. I'm quite sure I have enough power behind the video.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:24 a.m. – Permalink

• chossy

  What drive are you using as your capture scratch and can you tell me what codec you are using please.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:25 a.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  my scratch is the main HD that came with the computer and DV/DVCPRO - NTSC.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:28 a.m. – Permalink

• chossy

  You should not be using the main HD. You are trying to get the computer to do too much of the work.

  Buy or use an external firewire drive 800 is the best choice and I would recommend if you have the money a gtechRAID these offer great playback channels like HD etc, etc. through the 800 firewire.

  Copy all your stuff to a firewire drive and play from this. You will have to reconnect the media obviously but this is simple. Feel free to email me if you still get problems although I am sure this will fix it yo!.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:35 a.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  chossy thanks for the help bro, I guess my thinking was keep everything on the main HD and that would get me the best solutions. But i guess what you said makes sense.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:37 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  Definite rule of thumb for video, graphics, anything - run your apps and save your media on two separate drives.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:39 a.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  i love yous guys.

  • sorry but im in a loving mood today.– PIITB

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:40 a.m. – Permalink

• totally_recalled

  go to system prefs and take off report dropped frames, change your RT settings to safe and drop the sequence quality...

  • This is wrong do not do this.– chossy1/3

    yeah the apple docs that I read said the opposite of this.– PIITB2/3

    the equilvalent of unplugging the check engine light in your car– locustsloth3/3

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:40 a.m. – Permalink

• totally_recalled

  oh and also trash your user data and restart and then set it up again. we run big powerful man eating machines and we still have to do that a lot....

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:41 a.m. – Permalink

• chossy

  No worries when you are copying the stuff across make sure you take these folders too.

  Capture scratch
  waveform cache files
  thumbnailcache files
  Render files
  Autosave Vault
  Audio Render Files

  Although I like to keep my autosave vault on my main HD incase my firewire drive breaks!!!. Save your project files to the HD as well not the firewire again just cause it is safer that way?...

  REMEMBER TO reset the scratch discs once you have done this by the way!!!. Or next tme it will go right back onto your HD yo!.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 7:41 a.m. – Permalink

• PIITB

  Just wanted to say thanks again, since I made the changes above I have had a smooth running system. IFUCKINGLOVEYOUGUYS.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 8:57 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  Wow, it's really warm in here.

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 9:11 a.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  chossy is the man when it comes to FCP. he's the typographica of video editing

  • Ha ha can you believe it I started out as a tape to tape editor about ten years ago!!!.– chossy1/2

    gah!– ninjasavant2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 3, 08, 9:12 a.m. – Permalink