ae clips suddenly playing sluggish in fc6

[Danny Perez-triana]

i tried a test with one of the clips in question and opened it in a new final cut sequence in a new project without my drives turned on or connected to the computer. the clip was playing from the harddrive of the computer and it played fine.

im in the process of transferring my capture scratch over to a terrabyte drive that should limit my external drives from 5 to 2 drives total.

i dont understand how a much older g5 1.6 could play the clips fine in fcp5, with the same configuration of drives, while my new macpro can’t and it has ten gb of ram?!

but using this new terra while allow me to just use my old drives as a backup, which i need anyways.

ignacio

dip

[Alexander Kallas]

How are you connecting your media?
If your media is spread over several drives, your connection bus (fire-wire?) could be clogged.
Test by moving all media to only one non-boot drive.

Cheers
Alexander

[Danny Perez-triana]

i’ve since transferred everything from my 5 daisychained drives to one terrabyte drive. didn’t really seem to help.

i’ve had to re-render all my ae clips as either apple pro res 422 HQ or dv ntsc 24p to get them to play in my timeline. this means i’ve had to go back into two years worth of after effects projects to fish out the original compositions, which is a huge pain, but it’s the only thing i can do right now to get smooth playback in my timeline.

i don’t understand why fc 6 with all it’s features boasting being able to play different formats in one timeline, it’s unable to play clips with different compressions, i’m especially confused cause i’ve been rendering everything as animation in ae and played it fine in fc for the past year until recently?

thanks for the tip though,

ignacio

dip