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    Dropped frames

    Posted by Dan Rayner on May 23, 2017 at 10:58 am

    Hi All – I’ve been cutting a project on my MBP 2.7GHz 16GB RAM GeForce GT 650M 1024MB graphics.
    The timeline consists of a 2 angle multi cam clip, one of which is 4k, the other 1080p, all prores.

    It plays back fine on the laptop.

    When i move to my iMac 4K, 2GB graphics, 32MB RAM (i.e. a much more powerful computer), the project won’t play without lots of dropped frames.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks guys and gals.

    Dan Rayner replied 8 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Dirk De jong

    May 23, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    This may be kind of obvious so you might’ve already done these things but….

    – set the View menu to “Better Performance” and to use Proxy media if there is proxy media

    – if there is not proxy media transcode clips to create proxy media

    – maybe set Preferences to create optimized media for Multicam clips since you say you’re using multicam ?
    – set prefs not to stop and warn if the occasional dropped frame becomes too distracting

  • Dan Rayner

    May 23, 2017 at 2:58 pm

    Hi Dirk – sorry I meant to say that it plays back fine with optimised media on the MBP.

    Closing the angle viewer seems to have made the issue go away.

    Thanks again

    D

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