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Playback of P2 media wonky?
I really never have this many issues – but this job is really killing me!
For some reason, all the media I am playing back has a 5-6 delay. I’ll drop the footage in the timeline and hit play, and I get a pause, beach ball for a few seconds, then it plays fine. This also happens If I load the clip in the viewer.
Footage is 720p24N (kept native DVCPro Codec) on a settings matched timeline. Timeline is set to Safe RT and Dynamic/Dynamic for playback setting, with audio waveforms turned off!
Our system is a dual 2.8Quad Mac Pro w/10GB of RAM – so plenty of horsepower there…and the drives are plenty fast (16 drive array stripped raid-0).
Am I really missing something simple here? I can play back the media just fine on my macbook pro system running off of a firewire 800 drive!
-on a similar note the importing has gone awry as well, imports take FOREVER and fail often now. They were lightning quick the other day with the same type of media
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Those to problems can be a problem with your drives, doesn’t matter how many drives you have, they can be failing or that the PCI card or mother board there is a problem.
For trouble shooting
– Does this happen on older projects?
– What about projects with a different codec?
– Do you have a FW800 drive you can copy some footage to and test it, also log and transfer some P2 cards to this new drive.
– Transcode some of the clips to ProRes and test it in a new project.This will help determine if it is a drive, system issue or a codec issue.
[Dave Gorrie] “Timeline is set to Safe RT and Dynamic/Dynamic for playback setting, with audio waveforms turned off! “
Because of this I’m assuming that you are using FCP, but you never state that. -
Hmm, interesting – I checked the drive speed and it did seem a little low (we usually get around 300-400 MB/s on them) and it came out really wonky, drive started in fits and starts for some reason. Other projects seemed to be fine in ProRes. I might double check my raid cards…I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before! This is why I love the cow 🙂 Other smart folks that aren’t me!
I’ll let you know how it does,
Dave -
It is always easier to trouble others problems. When it is your’s your brain can get turn off.
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