Crashes

[Walter Biscardi]

[Andrea2Summit] “Mostly this will occur when I’m doing work with transitions, but it is not consistent.”

What type of media are you working with and what type of harddrive are you working with?

You say it’s a 200GB model, but is it internal / external? What’s the speed of the drive and if it’s external, what is the connection to the Mac (FW400/800, SATA)?

Also, have you repaired permissions on your boot drive lately.

How fragmented is the media drive? Have you clean it off lately?

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Andrea2summit]

It’s a brand new out of the box external, connected via FW 800. However, I did end up starting Yasu last night before leaving the office and this morning I’ve breezed through almost 20 mins of video without any crashes. That’s a first in a long while. Seems like just cleaning up the poor computer solved the issue. However I do suspect that part of it may still be communication/speed issues to the hdd. I’ll see how it goes the rest of the day.

[Juli Brown]

Thanks for the advice: I had QTPlayer vers 6.5.1 from which some of the advanced capabilities disappeared at somepoint ( I think when I took the auto-offered upgrade from OSx.3.4 to 10.3.7 it got knocked out) so bought QTPro7 as a download, because I want some of the features.. I will try to buy or reinstall QT Pro 6.5.2 then let you know how that goes.

One timline freeze prob was my error: had stills cache set too low, so it froze on stills. However dissolves still freezing in various timelines, always the same camera roll.
thanks again….

[Juli Brown]

re my crashing problem: went back to QT 6.5.2 didn’t work: fcp then stopped seeing hardware that i’ve had for ages, ie ADVC10 digi box, so we couldnbt work at all. Will try again with different help person on Mon. Also print to video or exporting a QT to make a dvd has become utter nightmare. Am seriously exploring other career paths as I’m tired of being screamed at.