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Warning Dropped Frames dialog
I’m not sure this is entirely a FCP issue but I’m willing to take a risk and earn the wrath of everyone.
I use a second 1TB drive in my Mac Pro as my Scratch disk and when I replay or view any movie in FCP I continue to get a dialog which lists:
“One or more frames were dropped during playback
If this occurs frequently, try;
Turning off “unlimited RT” – it’s not on
Lowering your compression data rate – I really have no idea what this is
Closing open sequences – don’t have them
Lowering the preference for real-time audio tracks – no audio, yet
Increasing the speed of your system and/or disk drives and/ or network connectionHELP! Please?
Lawrence Eaton
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I was bedeviled by this too, though we could never actually see a dropped frame in the real output. Still have not solved what it was that bothered the computer, it continued after followign all the suggestions in the warning, I put it down to some problem perhaps with my directory structuer or file paths in audio versus video scratch drives. Results inconclusive.
I turned the warning off, and for anything critical, I do a full render of the final version anyhow.
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How full is your media drive?
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity! -
Zane,
Media drive, media drive… terminology…blast! OK, my primary hard drive has 300 gigs of free space and my scratch disc has 1TB of free space.
I write all of my work to my scratch disk so that my primary hard drive is only for my system ‘stuff’…I was thinking access time for my drive?
I’m going to go and look back in my cup and try and gifure out what the tea leaves are trying to tell me! 🙂
Lawrence Eaton
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