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Beach Ball Blues
Every 10 or 20 minutes or so I get a spinning beach ball interruption for about 10 seconds (seems like forever!). In searching for cause, here are the things I eliminated but which had no effect:
Took project off of the same drive as media and put it on an external USB drive (slap my wrist for that one!)
Turned off Time Machine.
Made sure Spotlight wasn’t searching anything but internal drive.
Had just one modest project open.Still happening….
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz, 10.5.8, 4 gigs ram
FCP 7.0.1
ProRes-LT media on G-Raid 4TB via FW800Brian Berdan
migrant filmworker -
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What is your autosave interval set to? do you have anything else plugged into the same FW Bus as the G-Raid(deck, I/O device…) how big is the project file??
Colin McQuillan
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Hey Colin,
Project size is 14MB
Ah, yes, it must be just really slow auto-saving… I have that at 10 minutes (made it short after getting crashes early in my short FCP experience). Seems like it would save faster for such a small project… unless that’s not small by FCP standards.Brian Berdan
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If you have a lot of media on a slow media drive, it takes a while to autosave and it also makes FCP run slow over all.
This is why so many of us run very high speed RAIDs with 4, 6, 8, 16 or more drives. Faster speeds mean better performance of FCP. There’s no way around that.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks Walter,
Next week I’ll be running this off a desktop (3.2 8core Harpertown) and running the G-Raid via e-SATA… hope that helps.Brian Berdan
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I turned off Autosave and developed a habit of constantly hitting “command-S” whenever I have done several steps.
In the ancient past, “Autosave” used to cause more problems than not. And I learned to constantly save as I work. And then there are backups, too.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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G-Raid is nice … and eSata does help … but in the future I would recommend the Raid via Fibre Channel or using internal HardDrives. They are easy to install on the MacPros.
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Houston Based Freelancer
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Actually, now I see the beach ball is happening more often than auto-saving (I upped the time and checked the latest auto-save)… not sure what’s going on.
Brian Berdan
migrant filmworker -
[Brian Berdan] “not sure what’s going on. “
1) Trash prefs
2) Fix permissions using the Apple Disk Utility
3) Run Disk Warrior
If you’re still having the same issue after all of these you’ll most likely need a witch doctor or exorcist.
David Roth Weiss
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[Raymond Tuquero] “in the future I would recommend the Raid via Fibre Channel or using internal HardDrives”
A fiber RAID definitely, But why would you recommend an internal hardrive over an e-Sata RAID?
A G-Speed eS RAID 5 or the like is far faster and more secure than an internal drive.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C. -
[Brian Berdan] “Took project off of the same drive as media and put it on an external USB drive (slap my wrist for that one!)”
What means that, that you have the media in an USB HD?
You can not try to fix any performance issue having the media in an USB HD.
You can not complain that your car runs slower having four flat wheels.
Rafael
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