• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Dropping frames only when playing audio files

  Posted by Matt Whittemore on January 5, 2014 at 1:52 am

  Hi there…today I noticed that FCPX is dropping frames only while playing an audio file. It doesn’t matter whether I have “better performance/better quality” selected or using optimized or proxy. In preferences, under “playback” I have both boxes selected (If a frame drops, stop playback and warn & If a frame drops due to disk performance…). When I deselect the first box I’m no longer warned. I’m running FCPX 10.1 on Mavericks and the media is on an external thunderbolt RAID. The audio files are .wav.

  Any advice?

  Doug Suiter replied 12 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Dave Jenkins

  January 5, 2014 at 4:25 am

  I’m glad you brought this up. This was happening to me today and I thought my new MacPro Tube 3.5GHz 6-Core with a TB2 Pegasus raid isn’t performing very well. My audio files were AIFF, must be a bug.

  Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
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  Matt Whittemore

  January 5, 2014 at 4:05 pm

  Must be…I’m just running a 27″ iMac.
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  Doug Suiter

  January 14, 2014 at 12:47 am

  Yep – me too. I am getting a lot of beach balling since 10.1 and i have been trying to isolate the issue so I turned on the stop and warn when frames were dropped. I thought it was Multicam or synched clips that were the issue but was surprised this morning to see that frames were being regularly dropped with audio only clips.

  I thought I’d take my thunderbolt raid out of the equation and moved the library to the internal SSD. Same issue. The files are .wav

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