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Help with Audio Skipping
I am new to Motion and I am not able to get an audio file(aiff or mp3) to play in the time line without skipping. This makes it hard to do timing for text. The audio is fine and even previews fine. I have a dual 2.0 with 1.5G Ram.
dug
Video Production Director
Centre Street Church
Calgary, Alberta
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In your preferences, on the Project section, under Playback Control, make sure you are set to “Skip video frames”
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
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it is set to “Skip Video Frames” and it still skips. I did have the resolution set to Full, I set it to quarter and it’s almost there, just a few skips. The video from FCP also skips based on resulotion. Do I just need more RAM?
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1.5 GB is not bad- what’s the video card?
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an ATI Radeon 9600 w/ 128. I am running two 19 crt of VGA, But will be moving to two 19 LCD of DVI in the summer.
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That could be your problem – that is an underpowered card to begin with for running Motion, and by using two monitors you are splitting the VRAM in half – by switching to one monitor and getting a new card with 256MB of RAM, you will effectively quadruple your ram (and the GPU on the new card won’t hurt either!)
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Mark Spencer
Freelance Editor/Producer
Apple-certified instructor, Final Cut Pro and Motion
Author, Motion Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press (coming soon)
https://www.applemotion.net -
What output device are you playing your audio through? The Mac’s internal audio or a capture device? I had similar audio skipping problems when monitoring through Cinewave which made Motion unusable. Swapping to the G5’s internal audio totally cured the problem.
Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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