• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  XDCAM sequence crashes – purple and green frames / canvas

  Posted by Christoph Baaden on July 2, 2009 at 8:17 pm

  Hello,

  we are editing in XDCAM EX 1080VB 23.98 and mixing both native EX footage with down-converted 23.98 DV footage. Unfortunately FCP crashes quite a bit and often, right before the crash, we are seeing purple or green flash frames and won’t be able to play back the XDCAM footage. Instead of video we are getting a green or purple canvas. So I am assuming the codec is making FCP crash?

  Anybody having the same problem?

  System:
  MacPro 8 -core, 6GB RAM, newest version of FCP (6.0.6), both the OS and QT are updated to the newest version.
  Kona 3 on the latest driver. 2 RAIDS connected via ESATA.

  Thank you!

  Christoph

  Mark Maness replied 16 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mark Maness

  July 2, 2009 at 8:34 pm

  Somewhat easy…. I have seen this before.

  Remove the two 1 gig RAM bars you have installed and make absolutely for sure that the rest of your memory is installed equally in the risers. Two bars in Riser A Slot 1 and 2 and two bars in Riser B Slot 1 and 2.

  This makes a HUGE difference when working in FCP with XDCAM material.

  _______________________________

  Wayne Carey
  Schazam Productions
  https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
  schazamproductions@mac.com
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  Christoph Baaden

  July 2, 2009 at 8:39 pm

  Wayne,

  thanks for the reply but I think we got it configured right…this is from our system profiler:

  Memory Slots:

  ECC: Enabled

  DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1:

  Size: 2 GB
  Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
  Speed: 800 MHz
  Status: OK
  Manufacturer: 0x0198
  Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
  Serial Number: 0x09160190

  DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2:

  Size: 2 GB
  Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
  Speed: 800 MHz
  Status: OK
  Manufacturer: 0x0198
  Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
  Serial Number: 0x01161C0A

  DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1:

  Size: 1 GB
  Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
  Speed: 800 MHz
  Status: OK
  Manufacturer: 0x80AD
  Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
  Serial Number: 0x6320550F

  DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2:

  Size: 1 GB
  Type: DDR2 FB-DIMM
  Speed: 800 MHz
  Status: OK
  Manufacturer: 0x80AD
  Part Number: 0x48594D5035313241373243503844332D5335
  Serial Number: 0x63205002
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  Mark Maness

  July 2, 2009 at 8:47 pm

  No… You’re still missing it.

  You can’t mix sizes either… All of the memory needs to be the same size. If you have 4 gig bars, use these. If you have 4 1 gig bars use these, but you can’t mix 2 gig bars on Riser B with 1 gig bars on Riser A. They MUST be the same size. Read the tech doc from Apple.

  https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1957?viewlocale=en_US

  _______________________________

  Wayne Carey
  Schazam Productions
  https://web.mac.com/schazamproductions
  schazamproductions@mac.com

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