• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Dropped Frames Nightmare

  Posted by Q_yes Just the letter on January 24, 2006 at 6:15 pm

  I am trying to capture video from beta sp through aja io and am continually getting the dreaded dropped frames alert. What can I do to stop dropping frames during capture. HELP PLEASE!!!

  Dan Riley replied 20 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  January 24, 2006 at 6:22 pm

  This is caused by one thing typically, hard drive throughput is not high enough for one reason or another. You need to supply more details if you want specific help. What type drives, how connected, anything else connected, etc.

  DRW
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  Shane Ross

  January 24, 2006 at 6:39 pm

  Just to throw this out there:

  #12 Dropped frames on capture/playback

  Shane’s Stock Answer #12:

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58640

  1) Do not capture to your main system drive. Since it is busy reading the operating system and application files, it will intermittently drop frames during capture.

  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://www.pistolerapost.com/viewing/virexhalt.zip

  3) 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.

  4) Trash the FCP preference file:
  Home/library/preferences/FCP user data/Final cut Pro Preferences

  Shane Ross
  Alokut Productions
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Q_yes Just the letter

  January 24, 2006 at 9:15 pm

  Okay here are the specs for my system

  G5 Tiger 0.43
  Dual 1.8 Ghz
  2G ram
  Final Cut Pro 5.03

  Capturing from:
  Sony Betacam SP deck model:UVW-1800

  Capturing to:
  LaCie 1Terabyte external

  Also connected to system:
  Aja IO

  Thanx for all your help!
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  Todd Reid

  January 24, 2006 at 9:24 pm

  confirm that you are on the correct capture setting.
  I had a similar problem when I accidentally had the DVCPro50 codec instead of the customized setting I had for our Beta deck.

  Also, if you only have 1 firewire bus, buy another one.
  Your mac came with multiple firewire connections (front & back), but only 1 firewire bus.
  It is highly recommended that you only have one device on one bus for video capture.
  i.e. your Lacie needs to be on a different bus than your AJA.

  Now having said that, I worked at a place that had 4 systems using only the 1 bus that came with the mac.
  They eventually, after 1 year of daily use, added extra buses to all, and it did seem to work smoother.

  Good luck.
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  Dan Riley

  January 24, 2006 at 9:25 pm

  Is the Lacie External a firewire 400 or 800 RAID?

  Is it connected to the G5 via one of the firewire ports
  on the back of the G5?
  If this is the case, you are going to have trouble.
  Your AJA IO is already using up your firewire bus.
  Even though there are extra firewire connectors on the G5,
  they all go to the same bus.
  You need a PCI firewire 800 board and use that as your
  firewire port for the drives. They cost about $60 or so.

  Dan

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