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Dropped frames in Final Cut Pro 4.5
I’m cutting a simple music video with football footage recorded from TV. I have video on the “V1” track only, and no effects/transitions on the video, and yet I get a dropped frames warning all the time.
The footage is on a G-Raid firewire 800 drive, and I’m working on a G-5 dual 2.5 with 8GB RAM. I’m still running OSX 10.3.9 while waiting for some software updates.
I’ve even tried switching the playback video quality to “low” with no change. Does anyone know a “fix” for this? I got better playback with my old G4 and Final Cut 3.
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Hello,
Did you get a response in regards to your dropped frames issue? I’m having the same problem.
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Questions like this are posted very frequently. And many (most?) of the problems are solved by a simple procedure.
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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Will try it. Fingers crossed.
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