Codec and Viewer issues on FCP7 with MB Pro

[Andy Mees]

Yay! Thats good news Michael, thanks for posting back to let me know 🙂

Hence 2 theories:
a) I cleared up a lot of space on my external hard drive that was getting full (800 Gb out of 1000), now it’s less than 1/2 full; does that have anything to do with the playback issue? or…

Absolutely, that would certainly affect your playback performance as full drives will tend to perform more poorly than an emptier drive.

b) with my past set-up, the order in which I turned on the DV camera for playing back on the SD tube and refreshing A/V device once had an effect on the camera being recognized or not. Now it doesn’t appear to. But is that a theory?

View menu > External Video > Refresh A/V Devices should be all thats needed to allow FCP to see your external DV device if and when its not already been recognised … thats not something that should have been affecting the issues above tho, as the option for Apple Firewire would have been disabled in the Video Playback menu had it not been recognised.

c) I was just plain doing something wrong and I don’t want to admit it or can’t remember and I need a youth cure 😉

That’s always a possibility, but more likely it was option a) above. But if you find the youth cure you please please let me know.

Cheers
Andy