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“Dropped Frames during Playback”; usual fixes not fixing
Specs:
MX02: Firmware: 26.1, Software: 1.9.10022
FCP: 7.0.3
OS: 10.5.8
MacBook Pro
2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB 1067 Mhz DDR3I recently purchased a piece of gear that required Snow Leopard to access settings and updates so I loaded OS X 10.6.3 onto an external drive as I did not want to destabilize my editing system which has been rock-steady stable since I have owned it the past number of years. However, I may have done just that as I am experiencing the following new issue in FCP when editing and outputting to monitor via MX02:
“one or more frames were dropped during playback”
Note: I am not using 10.6.3 for editing, I am using OS 10.5.8
My normal workflow is creating sequences as Pro Res 422 1920×1080 59.94 48khz. I log and transfer HDV camera clips and edit the 1440×1080 clips in combination with 1920×1080 clips and other content that is 1920×1080. My video output settings are Matrox 1920×1080 59.94 10 bit. For the past number of years this has all worked without incident. Now I get the dropped frames warning when attempting to play back to a monitor.
I am not running the system on Snow Leopard and don’t have that drive connected to the computer. I have tried trashing FCP preferences, made sure Safe RT is selected, Playback Video-Dynamic, Playback Frame Rate:Full but the problem still happens.
Incidentally, the playback problem is on un-rendered clips. When I render the sequence it does play. Also, if I create a 1440×1080 sequence it does not drop frames. I would like to be able to continue editing in 1920×1080 sequences and have done so without incident up to this point. I’m thinking I am overlooking a setting or a tic’ed box somewhere but cannot find it. I don’t know if this is a Matrox issue or a FCP issue or an OS issue but I figured I would try posting this question in relevant forums. Thanks.
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3 Replies
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Have you re-set the capture and video/audio render path to a fast enough drive (for sure not your root drive)? Dropped frames are usually a symptom of poor bitrate throughput.
jPo
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Joseph, I have the scratch disk set to a 4TB G-Raid external drive via Firewire 800 of which 1.6TB is available. It’s the same drive I was using before without incident. Thanks.
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You probably have been working with dropped frames in the past but you haven’t noticed.
Uncheck “Warn next time on dropped frames” and relax.
rafael
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