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capture craziness
First, I noticed that FCP was freezing up about a minute into capture and I was getting the Wheel of Death. I had to Force Quit. I opened FCP again and this time it said my scratch disk was full.
“Huh?” I said. I’ve got about 365Gb’s left on that 500gb drive. Not so, said the Mac when I looked at the drive in Finder. There was only 1.95GB available. This happened earlier today, but when I emptied the trash (?) it when back to 365GB available. Now, something is amiss. I can’t find what has chewed up 363GB of disk space.
What is eating up my hard drive? Thanks,
MarkFCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
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FCP is grabbing the space when capture begins. Because capture is failing the space is not being released properly. Are you using QT7.3? You might want to see if you can downgrade to QT7.2.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
I’m having the same exact problem. Just started today. I’ve tried on 3 different computers, multiple external drives, different playback decks. Everything worked last week, now Nothing works. If anyone finds a fix please email me at a1platinum@aol.com, thanks, Phil
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Tom have you ever heard of this before. When did 7.3 come out? was it in the last week? Maybe that’s what’s messing us all up.
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It started happening with QT7.3 and users of older versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. Also with Leopard users as this installs QT7.3.
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop” -
So since nobody is solving the problem (and I’ve been looking online for 5 hours) I’m going to take the leap of faith and do what seems the only possible way of getting back on line, cause I gotta pay the bills. I’m abandoning 10.11 and reinstalling back to 10.4. If I live through this, I’ll let you know how it turns out. Pray for me. Regards, Phil
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So just to let anyone that’s gone through the FCP capture nighmare due to QuickTime 7.3 …yes there is a solution! I reinstalled Tiger with my install disk. I went from 10.11 (having horrible problems with capturing in FCP) back down to 10.4.6. I’ve run several tests and FCP is working great…just like the old days. This was the only way I could figure out how to totally rid my system of that dirty villain who had robbed me of an entire day of work…Quicktime 7.3
I have certainly learned my lesson, I will NEVER push that “Install 5 Items” button again without VERY closely examining and making sure that there are NO Quicktime updates anywhere in sight. Good luck to all of you who have gone through this Quicktime nightmare.Regards,Phil
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THANX! THANX! THANX!
So just a few questiones:
Did you install just the OS or did you uninstal and install FCP again?
This QT 7.3 thing is driving me nuts!!!
Is there a way of uninstalling or downgrading to 7.1 or 7.2?Thanks in advance
Tom
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