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Capture issue – freezes after 5 minutes
Hi all –
This forum has been so helpful in the past, so thought I’d try with my current issue, capturing.
My footage freezes during ‘capture now’ after about 5 minutes. The tape in the miniDV deck keeps playing but the capture window in FCP freezes (with the ‘Press ESC to stop capturing’ message still there) and I have to shut down the computer in order to use FCP again. At first I thought it was the tape, so tried two others, same issue. Then I switched to a different external drive and also tried saving to my HD, same issue. The ext. HD I’m trying to capture it to has 75GB free, but yet after the attempt to capture, it keeps saying that only 11MB are free and that the 5 minute clip just captured is 30+GB.
FCP is acting like I told it to stop to ‘capture now’ after 5 minutes, which I don’t think I did, and even if I inadvertently did, that wouldn’t explain why it’s seemingly such a large file.
(Would downloading software updates affect FCP in this manner? The only thing I can think of that’s different now then when I last capture is I upgraded to QTPro7.0 and installed their latest security update)
Any ideas?
Cheers,
April -
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If anyone else has this problem, try this remedy. QT 7.3 renders FCP virtually useless if you have an older version like I do. The Apple support forums are filled with suggestions, I tried below and it works.
1. Download the QT 7.2 installer from https://www.apple.com/support/downloa…e72formac.html
2. Download Pacifist from https://www.charlessoft.com/
3. Use Pacifist to open the package file on the QuickTime 7.2 disk image
4. Select the following 2 folders within Pacifist’s window under “Contents of QuickTime720.pkg”, and use the “Install Files to Default Locations” command under the File menu:
/System/Library/Components
/System/Library/QuickTime
5. Select to install with Admin privileges and give your password
6. Restart your machine, and– even though your system still thinks it has QuickTime 7.3.x– you can now capture more than 5 minutes’ worth in FCP!
7.Go to https://www.apple.com/quicktime/feedback/ and tell them they’ve got a bug on their hands! -
Hi April,
I was having the same problem. I followed your instructions to the letter. But now FCP and QT both quit when I try to open. I restarted, but that hasn’t helped. Did you have this problem?I’m using FCP 4.5 — which version are you on?
Thanks for any help you can give.
~Lenn -
Hi Lenn-
I did not have that problem you’re having, sorry to hear that! Both FCP and QT worked perfectly right away. I’m on FCP 4.0. You might want to check out the Final Cut discussions thread on the mac website, and search for anything QT related in the forum – TONS of discussion on this and someone might have had the same issue you are having. That’s how I found my solution. Good luck, sorry I can’t be more help —
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