• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Is my hard drive/connection my problem?

  Posted by Zack Mulvaney on April 7, 2011 at 10:11 pm

  During playback of footage (not just HD, but some DV too), the playback suddenly stops and I get the ‘Dropped Frame’ dialogue window. I’m editing on a brand new imac and am pretty sure it should be able to playback DV footage and a freeze frame of that footage without that ‘dropped frame’ problem as soon as the freeze frame clip begins. So, all I can figure is that my my USB 2.0 500 GB WD external hard drive that’s at only 50% capacity is just too old. I’m thinking an upgrade to a 1TB firewire 800 external hard drive would fix the problem, but this is mostly intuition. Any ideas on why I keep running into this dropped frame problem and if I’m on the right track re solution?

  Zane Barker replied 15 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Zane Barker

  April 7, 2011 at 10:54 pm

  USB is NOT suitable for video editing. It works via bursts of data and video needs constant data.

  **Hindsight is always 1080p**

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