• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Need help capturing all of a sudden…

  Posted by Larry Wheeler on October 20, 2005 at 8:57 pm

  I have had FCP 4.5 on my laptop for some time.

  Powerbook 867
  640 MB ram
  OS X 10.3.9

  In the last month, when I capture, via FCP, it’s freezes, and fills my hard drive, and I have to do a hard reset. After the reset, I discover an unusable quicktime file in the capture scratch, that’s nearly the free space capacity of the drive, prior to the capture attempt? Before the capture, my drive will have 16 gigs, after the crash, 1 gig, with no real content captured…

  This is a new problem to me, and have been capturing this way on this machine for years? Also, it may be helpful to note, it does this on all my external drives, as well as internal. Any help would be appreciated…

  Shane Ross replied 20 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bouncing Account needs new email address

  October 20, 2005 at 9:27 pm

  First thing to try:
  Do not use “Capture Now”.
  Mark In-points and Out-points from viewing the tape and then use Batch Capture.
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  Shane Ross

  October 20, 2005 at 10:08 pm

  Shane’s Stock Answer #10

  1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Never have that box unchecked. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.

  2) Do not under any circumstances run any anti-virus/filesaver software. Including Norton and Virex. Sure, Apple doles out Virex for free, but FCP doesn’t cooperate with it very well.

  If you absolutely feel you must keep Virex installed on your system then use Kevin’s script to shut it off before you use FCP:
  https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@85.zPgDaaNeQzT.323013@.68a85d17

  3) Do not capture to your main system drive.

  4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mas OS Extended, jornalling off. If it isn’t, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.

  For all the stock answers, click on this link:
  https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?50@941.OTrRaOS9SEl.0@.68a3b883

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