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Defrag?
I’ve noticed lately that my FCP is running sluggish–even just simple trims and moving clips in the timeline takes the system a little bit to catch up. It’s quite annoying and is slowing me down. I don’t have any other programs running and just installed another 2 GB of RAM making 6.5 GB RAM total…so…
Could a solution to this problem be to defrag my external firewire 800 drive? I do try to keep my drive 10-15% freespace on it.
I’d appreciate any suggestions!
Thanks,
Krisi
4 x 2.5 GHZ PowerPC G5
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4 Replies
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It won’t hurt to defrag, but here’s what Apple has to say about it: https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
Aside from turning off “show waveforms” I really don’t know what could be causing your slow down. I’ve always heard that you should reserve 25% free space.Lee Berger
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And here’s 2 cents:
I find that repairing permissions on my main drive often makes a surprising difference in overall speed – including FCP. Defragging the drives on which you store your clips will help, but also defrag your applictation drive.
Don’t have any idea why permission get bunged up when I haven’t changed anything in the system, but they do, and runnng repair from APPLICATIONS/UTILITIES/DISK UTILITY makes a difference for me.
Jacques Bailhe
Los Angeles
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What you need is (after reparing permissions) to run Diskwarrior or Techtools. You will notice the difference.
Cheers,
rafael -
Sorry I forgot to say, in fact when working with FC, defrag can give very negative results. When capturing with FC the application in fact chop the captured files to make easier to manage them. As I wrote before, what you need is to optimice your system and keep clean your directories: Diskwarrior or Techtools is the answer.
Rafael
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