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beachball on playback?
For the last month or so i’ve been noticing that my playback in FCP is superslow; not the frame rate that it comes out at, but sometimes i’ll scrub around the timeline and select a point to start playback – press space – and then i get a beachball for about 30 seconds to a minute. It then plays fine, at least until i try to restart playback somewhere else.
I don’t think this has ever happened before; there’s plenty of space on my scratch g-raid, it’s been diskwarriored recently… any quick and dirty tips for how to speed things up would be much appreciated.
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How full is the drive? Is it initialized with HFS+?
Kevin Monahan
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How many hard drives are using? I’ve had this same problem when the footage I’m editing with is spread across several drives. I noticed that when FCP stalled, the drive was making spinning up sounds and the light was out (Seagate external Firewire 400 drives.)
Keeping all the video for a particular project on one drive pretty much eliminates the problem. -
dn,
What a drag! Your drives go to sleep on you randomly? Have you checked out the Energy Settings System Pref? Set it to “Never Sleep”. If the drives continue to go to sleep on you randomly, seek out a firmware upgrade for the drives.That’s the problem with FlakeWire, the often will go to sleep randomly, even with the Energy System Pref. set properly. More often than not, no firmware upgrade exists.
Advice? In this modern world, say goodbye to FlakeWire.
Go with an external SATA setup=Avoid FlakeWire altogether.Kevin Monahan
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thanks kevin. it’s just one drive, 70gb free, and it’s all clean space.
in terms of the format, it’s ‘mac os extended’, so i guess that’s hfs+
hm. closing a heavy HD project helps a little, but it’s still not as fast as i’d like. me and my high expectations.
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