• AJA Video Systems

  AJA IO LA stutters on playback

  Posted by Matt Gottshalk on January 15, 2006 at 9:47 pm

  PB g4 17″ with 2GB of ram
  AJA io LA on FW400 port
  G-raid on FW 800 cardbus

  I cut an entire show at a client’s site and had NO playback issues.

  Now when I am back at my shop and try to play back the sequence to my external monitor and for Betacam layoff the picture freezes but the audio continues.

  i’ve checked the scratch disk, sequence settings, viewer size but can’t seem to figure it out.

  Matt G

  Matt Gottshalk replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Matt Gottshalk

  January 15, 2006 at 9:52 pm

  OSX 10.4.4
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  Bob Zelin

  January 16, 2006 at 3:07 am

  AJA will be the first to tell you that you cannot run any AJA box and any other firewire device (like a camera or drive) on the same buss (the FW400 and FW800 are on the same buss of the G5). You will be told that you need a seperate FW800 card to run your drive.

  With that said, may I suggest that you disconnect your AJA I/O LA, and see if the sequence will simply play back from the G-RAID onto your Mac screen without the AJA I/O LA box hooked up. If it can’t, you got drive issues (maybe it’s too full). If it does playback, get a 50 dollar FW800 card, and this will resolve your problems for layoff.

  bob Zelin
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  Matt Gottshalk

  January 16, 2006 at 4:02 am

  As I said in my first post:

  I AM using a FW800 card on the cardbus for the G-Raid.
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  Bob Zelin

  January 16, 2006 at 2:05 pm

  how full is your drive? FW800 and SATA drives decrease in performance as they get above 60% full – if yours is 90% full, you’ve got problems.

  Bob Zelin
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  Matt Gottshalk

  January 16, 2006 at 3:39 pm

  That’s what it was…thanks Bob!

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