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Delay pressing play
I recently digitized 800 gigs using a 1 terabye scsi raid. Upon pressing play in the timeline, I get a five second delay or so with the beach ball spinning until the playhead responds. I had a ATTO UL2D card. I took that out and placed the ATTO UL3D card and installed the proper drivers, but still get the delay and beach ball.
Any suggestions to alleviate the delay.
Dual 2.0 G5, OS Tiger, FCP 4.5, 2 Gig RAM
Thanks
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2 Replies
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Don’t know if it will HELP, but (like chicken soup) it couldn’t HURT.
The first thing to always try is to Quit FCP, Restart the Mac, Open your FCP project and try again.
Next:
THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
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or
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Steve
Two thoughts: Firstly that is a lot of the drive to use – 80 percent usage of an array will cause seek times to be increased, as final cut goes scrambling all over the place to find your video. This is a very likely cause of this delay.
Secondly, changing over the scsi cards without clearing out the media is probably no real use, and a little scary – not sure I’d attempt it with 800 gig on the drive. You need to find other storage to copy the data over to (a few hundred clams on a firewire drive should do it, a small price to protect a lot of work) and clear the drive completely and restripe it in disc utility. You are now using a faster scsi card, and I am suprised you are reading any data at all. If you have problems copying over the data, then you probably have bad data or bad sectors on your scsi drive. Try copying files over in small groups and see if you can identify the bad files.
If you are playing a rendered timeline, it could just be a bad render file that is causing all of this – and let’s hope it is. Clear out all the render files using render manager, and re-render everything. See if that helps at all before you try all of the above.
Still – I would always be wary of filling up a drive too much – What you describe is a classic drive seek problem.
Ben
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