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    dropped frames

    Posted by Pam Picard on September 26, 2011 at 12:13 am

    I recently purchased a new iMac – 3.1 Ghz processor with 4 GB hard drive. I’m working on a project with stills and lots of filters and effects. The project is about 3 minutes in time. I’m getting a dropped frame message quite often while working on the project. I have unchecked in user preferences the selection that warns when a frame is dropped, but that has not helped.

    If anyone has any suggestions, it would be appreciated. Perhaps the compressor?

    Thanks,
    Pam

    Pam Picard replied 14 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
  • 3 Replies

  • Michael Gissing

    September 26, 2011 at 12:41 am

    Is your scratch disk the system drive? Media shouldn’t be on the system drive

    If not then how is the external drive connected

  • Steve Eisen

    September 26, 2011 at 12:44 am

    Sequence setting, RAM and Hard drive

    Steve Eisen
    Eisen Video Productions
    Vice President
    Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

  • Pam Picard

    September 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    Thanks so much – that was it. All my hard drives were elsewhere, so yes I started the project putting everything on the hard drive. Reset the scratch, and it worked like charm….thanks so much.

    P

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