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playback issues
H E L P! please,
I’m on a Mac Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 w/ 6.5 GB DDR SDRAM. Running Final Cut 5.1.4The Problem. Randomly while playing my sequences starts to “stutter” video and audio and i’ll get intermittent black frames. I’ll stop and play again then it’ll be finr for about 8 seconds then it’ll start again.
I have another sequence from the same project that plays fine(different footage though). And I recently loaded completely different footage into a new project and the sequence started doing the same thing. All the footage including independent audio tracks in each sequence play fine in the source canvas.
I’ve tried changing to various playback settings in the timeline RT menu. I’ve rebuilt the sequence and it’s fine for a while then starts again.
All the footage was loaded the same way via firewire connected to my Panasonic DVX100B cameraAny Ideas
Thanks in advance
Gary
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Gary / ghediting.com -
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Gary,
What kind of hard drive system are you playing this media from, and how full is it?
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I’m using a 500 Gig Glyph GT 062 with 319 available, most of the media is on this including some that plays fine in a sequence.
And 4 G-Raid’s with 96, gigs, 385 gigs, 247 gigs, and 142 gigs available…
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Gary / ghediting.com -
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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Also, i just changed a playback setting to play back through fire wire to my camera and i played fine through the camera.
Thanks David.
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Gary / ghediting.com -
I had already tried an audio mixdown and just tried it again. The problem persists…ARGH!
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Gary / ghediting.com -
Well….
Sounds like you have too much media spread across too many firewire drives. When using firewire, you really need to organize your media to one drive, if at all possible. The reasoning is that when you spread media across drives, you end up spreading your buss bandwidth pretty thin.
The best thing to do is to either consolidate your media to one drives (your fastest drive) or purchase a larger drive and use the others for backup. Drives are cheap today, so don’t try to cut your budget by getting smaller drives.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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Most of my media is on the 500 gig glyph accept for 1 sequence of media which I moved to test to see if it would help. Maybe my renders are going all over the place, I’ll look into that.
Thanks Wayne
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Another tip…
Delete your render files and re-render to you media drives.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey
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