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Hangs on “Allocating Disk Space” when capturing to external drive
I recently purchased an iMac G5 with Final Cut Pro Express HD. I am able to capture to my LACIE external firewire drive using the “Clips” function, but when I try to capture to that drive “on the fly” using the “Now” button, the computer hangs saying “Allocating Disk Space”. Eventually–5-10 minutes later–it may or may not start capturing. Looking through forums I found two possible solutions: turning off “Virex” software, and trashing the FCP preferences folder. I don’t have Virex and I’ve trashed the preferences folder, no change. However, I discovered that I can capture using the “Now” function to my internal drive no problem. Do I need to format the LACIE drive? Is there some compatibility issue with that particular brand of drive?
Thanks,
Steve S. -
4 Replies
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Is the drive formatted HFS+ with journaling off? You can’t just take a drive out of the box and use it with Final Cut.
What is the “Capture Now” limit set to? It ususally defaults to 30 minutes. Try changing that to 10 or 15 in your Ssytem Settings.
Capture Now is known to be flaky, as is capturing to FireWire drives. Is your deck or camera machine controlable, you may be better off using machine control.
Hope this helps!
debe
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You were correct–I hadn’t formatted the drive, and that solved the problem.
Thanks,
Steve S. -
Yes, go into Disk Utilities and erase the drive using Mac OS Extended. I don’t own a Lacie drive so I can’t talk to any issues associated with it, but I have seen the same problem with a variety drives straight out of the box.
Hope that helps.Tim
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Too slow.
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