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FCP 6 won’t play HD for more than 20 seconds-HELP!!!!!
I am just installed Final Cut studio2 on a G5 dual2 gig with 2.5 gigs of ram. I have media imported from P2 on a 500gig usb2.0. I was working in HDrt for a while and now when i relinked to the HD (1080 30p) I will only play for about 20 to 30 seconds then it skips and stalls. Is there a buffering setting I can Adjust? Is my system underpowered? Is it the hard drive? Anyone have a suggestion? Keep in mind I have no budget!
I have the project director sitting in the room with me and we are both tearing our hair out.
Please Help!!!!!!!
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USB drives are suitable as media drives as they cannot sustain the necessary throughput for playback without dropped frames.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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David meant to say are NOTsuitable. I would reccomend you get a G-Raid drive.
Good luck!
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[digitaldavey] “I have media imported from P2 on a 500gig usb2.0.”
USB drives are not suitable for video editing as you have just discovered.
You will require at least a FW800 drive, preferrably a RAID. Lacie makes some nice small FW800 RAID’s.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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We had issues with HD files playing back from a G-Raids – they are designed for SD (DV or DV50). We were forced to upgrade to 15K 4 Cheetas SCSI Raid 0, which was quite expensive. A colleague of mine has been using E-SATA raid to cut HDCAM 4:4:4 footage pretty successfully.
Vic
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[Steve Eisen] “David meant to say are NOTsuitable.”
Yes I did… Thanks for correcting that one Steve…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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[Vic David] “We had issues with HD files playing back from a G-Raids – they are designed for SD (DV or DV50). We were forced to upgrade to 15K 4 Cheetas SCSI Raid 0, which was quite expensive. A colleague of mine has been using E-SATA raid to cut HDCAM 4:4:4 footage pretty successfully.”
Vic, we aren’t talking HDCAM 4:4:4 here, or even HDCAM 4:2:2…we are talking about DVCPRO HD footage. For this, G-Raids, Lacie BIg disks, CalDigit Firewire VR drives…basically any firewire 800 hardware raided hard drive will do. I use G-Raids and the Firewire VR for this work all the time.
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[walter biscardi] “You will require at least a FW800 drive, p”
Walter I’m curious, have you ever edited shows in DVCPRO-HD directly from a non-raid FW800 drive?
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