• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Dropped frames

  Posted by Dan Rayner on May 23, 2017 at 10:58 am

  Hi All – I’ve been cutting a project on my MBP 2.7GHz 16GB RAM GeForce GT 650M 1024MB graphics.
  The timeline consists of a 2 angle multi cam clip, one of which is 4k, the other 1080p, all prores.

  It plays back fine on the laptop.

  When i move to my iMac 4K, 2GB graphics, 32MB RAM (i.e. a much more powerful computer), the project won’t play without lots of dropped frames.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks guys and gals.

  Dan Rayner replied 8 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dirk De jong

  May 23, 2017 at 12:27 pm

  This may be kind of obvious so you might’ve already done these things but….

  – set the View menu to “Better Performance” and to use Proxy media if there is proxy media
  

  – if there is not proxy media transcode clips to create proxy media
  
  

  – maybe set Preferences to create optimized media for Multicam clips since you say you’re using multicam ?
  – set prefs not to stop and warn if the occasional dropped frame becomes too distracting
  
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  Dan Rayner

  May 23, 2017 at 2:58 pm

  Hi Dirk – sorry I meant to say that it plays back fine with optimised media on the MBP.

  Closing the angle viewer seems to have made the issue go away.

  Thanks again

  D

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