Audio mixer and ProRes: Dropped frames

[Tom Daigon]

Noise fixed the issue. They rock!

[Tom Daigon]

Matt:
They did release another version of 2.07 , but Im at work and cant send you the link they sent me yestarday. It probably is the one now available at the Noise site. And yes, it works….allowing me to use my new Tascam control surface with both FCP and STP. Its way cool.
Tom

[Matt Larson]

Talked to one of the guys at Noise, very helpful but we determined that was not the issue.

I think a re-install is the next step when I get the time. I’m getting the same error with just an AIFF in the timeline, so something is not right. Also, when I pull the faders up, the rubber bands in the timeline go down? That is a new one.

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Matt Larson]

Update: I’ve found a workaround for my audio mixer issue using HD footage @59.94 fps: If I set the RT playback rate to half, I can use the audio mixer without any problems.

Another editor here is experiencing the same issue (different Mac Pro, different RAID set, different footage) and tried the FCP 6.0.6 update but the problem remains. I had to re-install the Final Cut Studio earlier this week and am still having the same issue. Other than this audio mixer problem, the Mac Pro appears to be solid.

I must be missing something…

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Chi-ho Lee]

Any updates to this thread? I am experiencing the same prob here except now it’s a year later than the last post. I’m on FCP 7.0.3, OS 10.6.4, tried with 16GB and 12GB of RAM – all matching pairs of 4GBs.

Editing 720p59.94 with a Kona3 v8.0. FXFactory 2.5.1.

I get dropped frames when I move the virtual faders. Have done all the usual steps, trash prefs, repair permissions, Diskwarrior – really stumped by this one….

CHL

Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com

[Chi-ho Lee]

Any updates to this thread? I am experiencing the same prob here except now it’s a year later than the last post. I’m on FCP 7.0.3, OS 10.6.4, tried with 16GB and 12GB of RAM – all matching pairs of 4GBs.

Editing 720p59.94 with a Kona3 v8.0. FXFactory 2.5.1.

I get dropped frames when I move the virtual faders. Have done all the usual steps, trash prefs, repair permissions, Diskwarrior – really stumped by this one….

CHL

Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com

[Matt Larson]

No real solution here. We have a second MacPro (different model MacPro, otherwise same setup) that has the same issue.

When I want to be able to adjust the virtual faders I knock the real-time playback frame rate down to HALF and then it works correctly. Or, if I am working with 30p material, I just switch the timeline to 29.97fps which also works.

Do you use Fiber to connect to your RAID? Just curious.

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID

[Chi-ho Lee]

On two machines – one is an internal 4 drive Raid5 with a highpoint card. And the other is a Caldigit HDPro with an external PCIe connection.

On my office machine, this is very bad on multiclips with the Open Sync setting turned on. I don’t recall if this has happened in the past since I don’t work a ton with multiclips. If i turn off the sync, then the mixer works 90% of the time. But something must be wonky…

And my home system, even when not working in multiclip, the audio mixer fader causes dropped frames as well.

I’m starting to wonder if the graphics card has something to do with it because the performance seems to be better when FCP is gathered on one monitor vs two monitors.

Have you experimented with one vs two monitors?

Thanks,

CHL

2×2.8 Quad Core Mac Pro
12 GB RAM
OS 10.6.4
FCP 7.0.3
Kona 3 v8 drivers
Caldigit HDPro2

Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Television Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com

[Matt Larson]

Yep, I tried changing to the default Window layout and that didn’t seem to make a difference. I also tried turning off playback in the Canvas window and just displaying on the external monitor.

I had my graphics card replaced under AppleCare a couple months ago and that hasn’t made a difference either.

2 x3Ghz Quad MacPro
9 GB RAM
Mac OS X 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5
FCP 6.0.5
AJA Kona 3 (6.0.1 drivers)
G-Speed XL 12 RAID