• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Footage grabs or freezes briefly on timeline

  Posted by David Cooke on December 8, 2009 at 6:35 pm

  This is not exactly like the “jittery” footage posting. We are editing in SD. Good clips that have
  been fine months ago for a project, now play with an occasional “grab in the video”. No windows
  or warnings pop up, no dropped frames or anything. Especially when the clip has a pan or zoom
  in it, the video just “grabs” momentarily- Looks like a few frames occasionally have been edited out of the clip, but hasn’t. 1st tiime
  since the system was installed 30 months ago this has happened. Our 2 Cal digit eSATA drives
  we use have 50% avail on them, but have never been wiped clean and re-striped, just move over
  footage and “delete-empty trash”. Either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
  Working with clients all day, can be frustrating with this.
  Thanks,

  Dual 3.0 Intel Tower
  Leopard 10.5.8
  4Gig RAM
  FCP vers 6.0.6
  Caldigit S2VR eSATA drives- 2 TB
  AE-vers 8.0.2
  PSD- vers 10.0

  D’s Video

  David Roth weiss replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  December 8, 2009 at 6:44 pm

  The three most common things you need to do are:

  1. Trash preferences
  2. Fix permissions using Apple Disk Utility
  3. Run Disk Warrior on all drives

  If you don’t have Disk Warrior you really do need it. Every professional should have it and no one with clients should ever be without it.

  If the three things above don’t work, then you most likely have a bad file or a bad filter somewhere in your project or on your system that you will need to track down.

  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, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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  David Cooke

  December 8, 2009 at 6:48 pm

  Thanks very much David! We will trash the prefs first. We’ve had to do this at times before but
  just did not think about it. We will let you know if and when the problem gets fixed.

  D’s Video
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  Chris Tompkins

  December 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm

  I would format if u can. The drives can still become fragmented.
  Drag all media off to a back-up drive. Format raid. Drag all files back. This might help. It has for us in the past.

  Chris Tompkins
  Video Atlanta
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  David Cooke

  December 9, 2009 at 1:57 pm

  Thanks Chris! We used to do that as “SOP” with our old MAC-based editing system- The Affinity by Accom and it worked. We Just got another 1 TB FW800 for backup use so will do this ASAP.

  D’s Video
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  David Cooke

  December 9, 2009 at 1:59 pm

  Hi David! Wanted to let you know, looks like the Trashing Prefs worked. We still need to clean
  our drives and are going to get Disk Warrior ASAP. Had this on our old MAC-Based system- The
  Affinity by Accom and worked great.

  D’s Video
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  David Roth weiss

  December 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm

  It’s the little things in life that hold back progress…

  Glad it worked for you.

  David

  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, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

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