capture/file size/mystery file issue…

[Tom Wolsky]

What the full specs of your system: computer, drives, deck, how everything’s connected, software, OS, QT versions, and settings on media and settings in FCP.

Start with that.

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”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Underdog is here:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/963486

Jeremy

[Ashley Harvey]

I too am having this problem – just started yesterday in fact. I am running a G4 933mhz with FCP HD 4.5

The system will successfully capture any clip under about 7 mins or so – if I go over that – the incoming pic on the capture window freezes and the capture will dump with a complaint of dropped frames. Funny thing is, if I tell it not to abort on dropped frames, it will continue running, and come back and start capturing again in a few minutes – minus audio sync and all the video that went by during the glitch. Sometimes the glitched files show up as the “AV” files that are HUGE. The successfully captured files (under 7 mins or so) appear fine – any ideas? Witht the consistancy of the ‘under 7 minutes’ thing, its almost like some buffer gets full or something. I have tried different drives, checking settings, tossing prefs – with no change.

Here is something I HAVE noticed however, and that is the the AV files are only created when I force a reboot or the system crashes. If I let the system recover on its own and report a dropped frame error – the file is not created…. so it seems the AV file may be some type of remnant from a failed end of record. The real question is – – I think for both of us – – what is causing the failure at 5 to 7 minutes where there used to be none?

The only thing that has changed since I successfully ran the rig last is that I let the big blue apple do a sytem security fix – maybe that was a bad choice?

I anxiously await any feedback anyone gets and I will do same.

[Ashley Harvey]

FYI – I have isolated the problem – on my end at any rate. As I suspected, it was the last update I allowed the mac to make – specifically – update to QT 7.3

There are plenty of people raging about it in different forums – check here for just a taste

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5831020&#5831020

and here
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5825488&#5825488

Guess if it aint broke – dont fix it applies.

[Mark Barroso]

Help! What is the fix? Those messages are no longer on the Apple forums. I’m having the same problem.

FCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500

[Ashley Harvey]

The links are still there –
You can check out the Apple.com, support, disscussions, Final Cut Pro for more info. A couple of good threads you can type in a search for are:

“WARNING: QUICKTIME 7.3 BUG”

and

“QUICKTIME 7.3 NIGHTMARE!!!!”

Basically – you need to wipe and re-install.