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capture freezes on new sata drive
i have another sata drive in my G5 everytime i try to capture it freezes up my drive and i have to force quit FCP. yes i have my boot drive and media drive both on separate HDD. it will say allocating space then the famous beachball….and nothing happens—so i have to cold shut down my computer. reboot and my media drive says 1.95 gig available go into my capture scratch erase what i tried to capture (there is something there) erase it then i have the real gig available–i tried this numerous times and same thing occurs. i did format new drive on OSX extended–the drive works i am able to drag files over and pull them up. now i hooked up my external (Lacie) to see if it will capture on this drive —same thing it freezes up the process all over again. please someone help i cannot figure this out.
Note—-the same firewire drive was able to capture footage on powerbook after i tried on my G5.
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THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”Click the following link for instructions.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCP (Pro) & FCE (Express) and a new one for FCP 5.Download these free Apple Scripts at
https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
or
https://pistolerapost2.com/fcprescue/This is one FCP tip that has helped in solving hundreds of “odd” problems.
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thanks but i already trashed prefs and still acting funny–that is why i cannot figure out problem.
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Check your system settings/scratch disk under the FCP menu and see what you have the 3 bottom lines of the window set to. Post back results.
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on waveform, thumbmail, & auto save says 411.1 gig media disk—i named my new hardrive
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Not those lines. Go back to FCP menu>system settings>capture scratch tab. At the very bottom of the window there are 3 lines, 2 of wich have a check box next to them. I am not at my FCP system right now so I cant remember the exact dialogue but it’s something like “limit capture now time to…” and “minimum size….” See what those 3 settinngs are.
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minimum allowable free space on scratch disks 2047 MB
limit capture/export file segment size to (it is not checked)
limit capture now (not checked)
hey thanx for taking time to help me.
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Let me ask you… What are your capture and sequence settings? This is just one SATA drive, right?
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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yes one sata–my settings? everything i do is mostly dv ntsc–does this answer your question correctly?
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