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5.1 rainbows and dropped frames
Blues. Got my 5.1 upgrade. First thing I needed to do was upgrade to Tiger which I’d purchased a while back. Smoooth, and my fcp 4.5 was flying. Opened in no time, didn’t even seem to need to bother reading video. Went into the 5.1 upgrade, my version of Tiger 4.3 not good enough so downloaded the 4.4 upgrade. Then it turns out my QT not good enough so downloaded 7.1. Then finally fcp 5.1 loaded. Takes ages to load fcp with a forever spinning rainbow, and now I’m getting (for the first time in my post fcp3 career) THE DREADED DROPPED FRAMES. Checked my sequence settings and under the advanced button everything is interlaced and 4:3. (I never went there before as fcp has always sung for me so don’t know if it has always been thus). My project is shot 25P and 16:9. Why am I getting dropped frames and what can I do? Is the slow firing up of 5.1 par for the course? (why do I wish I was still cruising with 4.5?)
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David,
This is quite typical of full system upgrades. Instead you would be wise to start with a clean slate, first installing the OS from scratch on a fresh or freshly formatted drive, then installing all the latest OS updates, and lastly installng FCP and the latest 5.1.1 update.
DRW
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David
Thanks for the speedy reply. Thankful that it’s just a housekeeping problem. Showing my lack of Mac know how, as my internal drive is partioned, can I format the partition which doesn’t have Tiger, reload Tiger and FCP5.1 there and then format the other partition? All my scratch is on my external drives. (I have backed up all my projects onto external drive so won’t lose them.) Or any other sage advice. -
David,
You could, but I always prefer get a new drive and to keep the old one aside until I’m certain I’m back up and running. Then you can clone your system drive to the old one and have a backup ready and waiting at all times.
The other David
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