• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Dropped Frames / No Sound in FCP6

  Posted by Kim Waldauer on September 2, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  I sit here at a total stand still with a FCP project – two big issues I can’t seem to get around 🙁 —

  1) every time I attempt to playback in my timeline I get a dropped frame warning. I have safe RT turned on, limit preference to 2 RT audio tracks – but it doesn’t seem to help. I looked at this forum, found a similar post but not exact issue as me so I’m hoping someone out there has some advice.

  2) no sound! I can see the sound levels moving in playback (before it stops for dropped frames, of course). The usual way around this is to shut the entire computer down and re-boot. However even that has stopped working.

  My system:

  MAC Dual 1.25 G4
  OS 10.4.11
  FCS 2 / FCP 6.0.4

  My project lives on an external hard drive – I don’t know if this is creating the problems or not? The drive is a 500 MB, with 201 GB available.

  Any thoughts would really be appreciated.
  -Kim

  Shane Ross replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shane Ross

  September 3, 2008 at 5:42 am

  Can you hear system sounds? Is you computer on mute? If not, then in your TOOLS menu, open the AUDIO MIXER and make sure that the MAIN is up to 0. It might have gotten turned down.

  Dropped frames…many things:

  #12 Dropped frames on capture/playback

  Shane’s Stock Answer #12: Dropped frames on capture/playback

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58640

  1) Do not capture to your main system drive. Since it is busy reading the operating system and application files, it will intermittently drop frames during capture. Capture to a separate internal drive, or external hard drive (firewire and eSATA for example).

  2) Deactivate any anti-virus/filesaver software, including Norton and Virex. For some reason these programs think that the large files created when you capture media are in fact caused by some sort of virus, and they try to prevent this.

  3) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mac OS Extended, journaling off. If it isn’t, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.

  4) Trash the FCP preference files. Use FCP Rescue available here:
  https://www.fcprescue.com

  5) Make sure that the hard drives you are capturing to are fast enough to handle the footage being captured to it. A regular firewire 400 drive cannot capture uncompressed HD, or even uncompressed standard definition. A RAID array of drives might be in order for these formats.

  Shane

  

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