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DROPPED FRAMES Optimum settings for editing 1080i60 on FCP5?
I can’t edit any of my footage without getting dropped frame warnings as soon as footage starts playing in the viewer. What are the optimum settings in FCP for editing 1080i60 on a MacBook Pro?
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11 Replies
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Is your MacBook Pro connected to an XServe RAID?
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No its not. I have imported a small selection of footage onto the hardrive and am trying to work with it that way.
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Not going to work. You need an external drive. To work with Uncompressed HD footage, you need to use an extremely fast drive array (such as an XServe RAID). To work with compressed HD (such as the DVCPRO HD codec) you can get by with something less expensive, such as a G-RAID or Big Disk Extreme.
Generally speaking, you cannot reliably edit with any type of footage (especially HD) off your internal laptop drive. Running the operating system and playing back the footage off the same drive is damn near impossible to do with any degree of reliablility.
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I’m working with HDV footage… make a difference?
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You still need an external drive. You cannot edit off your boot drive effectively.
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Besides an X Serve, do you know of another portable external drive that would work for this purpose?
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trying a 7200 rpm external now…
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Same thing… dropped frames warning immediately. 7200 RPM LaCie external drive, imported one 10sec HDV clip off of it into FCP on MBPro. No dice.
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Do your Sequence Settings match the clip settings? Did you use an HDV Easy Setup on your Mac?
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All settings match, and I used easy set up – tried DVCPro HD codec as well. Think the issue is Firewire related. Tryin to source an external drive that spins 7200rpm with FW800 port.
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