all of a sudden…dropped frame warning

[David Roth weiss]

Program stays on the system drive.

Project files should be saved to the system drive, and copy those elsewhere, such as to a thumb drive, CD, etc. routinely for backup and safekeeping. I save every new FCP project file to a single directory on my system drive called DRW FCP PROJECTS, and I routinely copy that entire directory to several other places and drives, including a thumb drive on my keychain.

The 2nd Drive is referred to as a media drive because all you media for your video projects should reside there — that’s captured video, stills, animation, etc. Render go on that drive too, as they are media files.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Alvin Bicasan]

Excellent David thank you very much! I’ll definitely get to it!

Alvin

[Alvin Bicasan]

by the way David, just to satisfy my logic, are the “dropped frames” caused the media and the system programs/applications all on one drive, and therefore they are conflicting with each other? Having the 2nd dedicated “media” drive keeps them all separated, thus avoiding conflicts?

Alvin

[David Roth weiss]

[Alvin Bicasan] “are the “dropped frames” caused the media and the system programs/applications all on one drive, and therefore they are conflicting with each other? Having the 2nd dedicated “media” drive keeps them all separated, thus avoiding conflicts?”

That’s part of it. But, think of this way: the system demands necessary for playback of video files without dropping frames must have “sustained throughput” that meets or exceeds the required overhead at all times. If throughput is not sustained, and ever drops below the required data rate for any reason, you get dropped frames. It’s very annoying on playback, but during capture or print to tape, it can be absolutely devastating.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.

[Michael Kienitz]

I’ve got a 3.0 Dual quad 16 gigs ram running latest Mac OS, have used disk warrior (I sold Apple computers for 10 Years) repaired permission etc. my card is a 4870 also used XL1900 prior to this. I’ve got 4 1.5 terabyte drives internally no external drives connected…I am dropping frames at the end of every edit even in Standard def. I have 7200 rpm drives with separate one dedicated just for scratch…I have 2 30in cinema displays but only have one plugged in in case that was the issue

I’ve taken the machine to local Apple Store 3 times (Madison, WI) they can’t find anything wrong with machine.

My 2.6mgz laptop runs the same files without dropped frames…I have Apple Care on the machine and
need to finish project, this used to only happen with HD H.264 files now it’s happening in SD as well…
The only thing the Apple Store has done is swapped out video card twice with no change in dropped frame issue…I told them I thought it was core problem but their tests say no problem…anyone out there got and ideas…this is very depressing for more reasons than I can go into…

Apple Hardware tests which I’ve run comes up with no errors on ram or anything else…drives are Seagate 1.5 terabyte, I’ve tried different drives as well but problem persists…