• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Print to Video keeps stopping

  Posted by Anna Little on January 29, 2009 at 8:37 am

  Hi
  Can someone give some advice to a not-too-technical-gal please?!

  I’m editing a 7 min video in Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 and every time I try to ‘Print to Video’ it starts ok but then a minute or so in it stops and a box appears with the title:
  Aborted ETT/PTV – Dropped frames
  Because one or more frames were dropped during Edit to tape/print to video this operation was aborted.
  If this occurs frequently try:
  -turning off unlimited RT
  -lowering your compression rate
  etc
  etc

  Can anyone tell me please, in lay terms, how to fix this please?! Also, why is it doing this?! It’s happened occasionally in the past and this is first time it’s so bad.
  Thanks VERY much!
  Anna

  Anna Little replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  January 29, 2009 at 1:45 pm

  This typically indicates that your media hard drives are not able to provide the throughput necessary to output at the required rate.

  What video codec are you editing and trying to print to tape, and what is your hard drive setup on your Fcp system?

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

  A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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  Anna Little

  January 29, 2009 at 2:09 pm

  Thanks for your response David.

  I am editing in Pal.
  My Capture Settings-scratch disks are set to my Lacie external hard drive….all four of them are ticked in one line (Video capture, audio capture, video render & audio render ….though the tick under audio capture is grey). Is that wrong?
  And minimum allowable free space on scratch disks, as i was advised, is set to 5000MB

  I have not compressed the video.

  What should I do to stop the stopping?!

  Thanks, Anna
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  David Roth weiss

  January 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm

  PAL is not a codec Anna. I need to know if it’s DV or another video type. What deck are you using?

  David Roth Weiss
  Director/Editor
  David Weiss Productions, Inc.
  Los Angeles

  POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

  A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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  Anna Little

  January 29, 2009 at 2:46 pm

  Sorry!
  It’s DV. I film using a Sony PD170 in Pal and capture the footage off my Sony MiniDVCAM player.

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