Cursor spins about 15 minutes on every move

[Shane Ross]

[jack fox] “I have a total of two hours of quicktime clip”

What codec? .Mov is not a codec…just to head that off at the pass. Look at the EASY SETUP in the Final Cut Pro menu…THOSE are codecs. So, what is the codec of all these clips. FCP doesn’t just work with any old QT files you throw at it. It likes codecs that are designed for editing…and gags on ones that aren’t.

Sounds like your FCP is gagging.

Shane

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[Michael Gissing]

Also what hard drives are you using. I hope your media is not on the internal system drive or a USB 2.

[Matt Lyon]

This could also be a serious I/O issue. I had this happen to me recently with an external FireWire drive that was on it\\\’s last legs. The drive would still mount and appear in the finder, but would flood the bus with read/write errors. I don\\\’t even think I was playing media off it, but it was still chocking FCP.
Also, make sure you aren\’t connected to any servers or other machines on your network, in the off chance FCP is trying to find media on a remote drive (unless you are specifically using a SAN Or similar).

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto

[Jack Fox]

-Whoops, you make it sound like bad thing, is there an easy way move media to another internal drive and save the cache?
-Is there a way to check a drive to see if there are IO errors?
-Below is a copy of my sequence settings:

[David Roth weiss]

Jack,

See where it says “MPEG-4?”

That’s indicates you’re trying to edit a non-realtime codec, which just also happens to be a delivery codec in FCP, not an editing codec. You have to transcode all of those clips to an editing codec before you start to edit with them in FCP. There are a zillion posts on the subject if you do a search.

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[Jack Fox]

Thanks, all I need to do is find a good transcoder. I used iskysoft to make the clips so I’ll start with them.

jmf

[Jack Fox]

I tried some things and no luck, it seems the problem starts after I render the timeline. Once the project is rendered every move of the playhead requires 10 minutes of cursor process time.

jmf