• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HELP!!! TRYING TO MAKE DEADLINE… VIDEO LOCKING UP!

  Posted by Dave Roberts on June 7, 2005 at 11:40 pm

  Today I upgraded to FCP 4.5. I was orginally using FCP 3 and it worked just fine. Now I have a story deadline to meet and the program isn’t working. When I try to play video in the viewer and timeline, the video locks up after 3 seconds while the audio plays on. When I pause the video, it jumps to the proper frame.

  Why won’t the video play smooth? Am I up a s**t creek?

  Please help… anybody.

  Dave Roberts
  KWWL-TV Reporter

  Andrew G. replied 20 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Peter Wiggins

  June 7, 2005 at 11:46 pm

  Is your canvas in fit to window?

  Have you tried trashing your prefs or running FCP rescue?

  have you fixed permissions?

  Peter

  https://www.peterwiggins.com
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  Uwe Klimmeck

  June 7, 2005 at 11:55 pm

  Or export as self-contained movie and re-import into a new project.

  Good luck David !

  Uwe
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  Andrew G.

  June 8, 2005 at 4:51 pm

  David,

  I had same problem. For me, the freezing occurs only when I previewed through Firewire. Assuming you’re working with NTSC DV and viewing through an NTSC monitor, try these things:

  -Restart FCP with the camera already on
  -Once up, make sure your Timeline window is active, and toggle the Firewire output by pressing Cmd-F12 a few times
  -Resize your Canvas to 50%
  -Also, close any unused sequence tabs in the timeline.

  These procedures usually work for me. Let me know how it works for you.

  Andrew

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