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Crashes on Renders etc. with XDCAM EX footage
I know that this has been covered before, but I am running out of time and patience with the system here!
Have recently upgraded to 8 core MacPro with Kona LHi and Firmtek RAID. Hardly ever had crashes on the old G5 despite it struggling with the HD footage.
Cutting a whole load of footage shot on an EX3 – quite a lot of Chroma Key stuff. When doing long renders I am getting the ‘descending curtain of death’ and have to hard-restart. If I render in small sections it is usually ok, but a bit frustrating.
I am editing in the XDCAM EX Sequence (I get the same problem using a Pro Res sequence). Doesn’t seem to matter whether renders are set to XDCAM COdec or Pro Res codecs, I am still getting crashes.
System setup is MacPro 8 Core (2.93Ghz) 16Gb RAM, running Snow Leopard and FCP6.0.6. Prefs trashed, clean install of OS and FCS.
My suspicions are:
Kona LHi in the wrong slot (it’s in slot 3 at the moment)
Conflict with the RAID Firmtek driver / Card (In slot 1)Sometimes when scrubbing along the timeline I get a crash too.
Any ideas / advice please!! Thanks, Martin.
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8 Replies
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LHe you mean right?
99 times out of a hundred if you’re having Kernal Panics it’s because of a hardware issue. Drivers have to be compatible with your OS so be sure the ones for the Kona and the raid card are compatible.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Thanks Jerry –
[Jerry Hofmann] “LHe you mean right?”
It is the LHi card (with the HDMI i/o)
The drivers are the latest (Snow Leopard compatible) ones from AJA and Firmtek.
I’m using Keylight for the Chroma Keying. Great plugin, but I am starting to think that this could be part of the problem too …..
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The plugin also has to be totally compatible. Have you checked the website for it to see if it is?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO, CD’s
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Ok – have been trying various things. The most consistent workaround that I have found is to trash the prefs every 4 renders. This allows me 4 more until it crashes again.
So something is corrupting the preferences somewhere along the line.
On looking through other posts this seems to be quite a common problem with MacPros at the moment and goes back a year or so:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1011917
I think that next time will probably have to digitise straight from HD SDI to DVCPRO HD timeline until a workable solution can be found.
Am I alone here having this problem …. or am I missing something obvious? I’ve used FCP constantly for 8 years and NEVER had this amount of trouble.
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Hi Martin,
Really have been many complains about XDCAM in the 8 Cores, although in the last few weeks it seems that those complains have almost ceased (SL?).
Make a test, just for curiosity, and try to export render to 8b Uncompress.
rafael -
Hi Rafael,
Thanks for this. Encouraging that people are seeing this problem less. I was wondering whether these problems were SL related or the fact that I was running FCP6 rather than FCP7.
Will try your suggestion, although I am getting crashes when scrubbing along the timeline too.
So perhaps the days are gone when I could do a batch render whilst I go away for lunch!
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Hi Martin,
I don’t stop to recommends everybody using DiskWarrior or TechTools.
I bought a G5 some five years ago and for the first months i experienced a nightmare of having a hang every five minutes.
I live in Laos, no way to send the G5 nowhere. Thanks God I found DiskWarrior.
I keep on using it, and believe me, is what allows me to live 600 miles from the closest Apple service.
Rafael -
Well, just to wrap this one up and if anyone else is having similar issues, the problem was caused by a faulty memory module giving ECC errors. Took out the offending one (and its pair) and I can now batch render and work without Kernel panics. Replacement being sent over by Apple UK under warranty.
Thanks for advice.
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