• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  fcp freezing after 5 minutes of capture

  Posted by Sean O’boyle on January 17, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  I’m working on FCP HD 4.5 and I’m capturing from a minidv deck with a firewire cable and i try to capture video but the whole program freezes after 5 minutes and it is always after 5 minutes. I hope this is enough information. thanks.

  Ken Summerall replied 18 years, 4 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  January 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  Capturing to WHICH hard drive?
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  Sean O’boyle

  January 17, 2008 at 6:28 pm

  I don’t know much about computers but it’s the Mac OS Extended on my computer.
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  Thaxter Clavemarlton

  January 17, 2008 at 8:52 pm

  For better results, you should be capturing to a different drive than the drive that contains the Mac OS and the FCP application.

  That drive should be at least 7200 rpm, have an abundance of free space, and not be overly fragmented.
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  Shawn Bockoven

  January 17, 2008 at 9:06 pm

  Take a look at this thread

  https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6344475
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  Ken Summerall

  January 17, 2008 at 10:22 pm

  What version of Quicktime are you running? 7.3 broke firewire capture with FCP 4.5. You will need to get back to 7.1.6 to use FCP 4.5. This is not an easy process. Best practice is to do a clean re-install from the OS up and only update QT to version 7.1.6.

  Ken

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