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DROPPED FRAMES help
I’m working on a sort of promotional video for the local library in FCP 6. I’ve got a couple of time lapse clips I recorded using Interval Recording on my camera. So I’ve imported the clips alright and they play alright in normal speed, but when I bring their speeds up to around 2,000 – 5,000%, it won’t play the whole clip (which is now about 3-5 seconds). It drops frames every time with the following error message:
RT Extreme has determined these dropped frames were caused by slow disks. Please try:
-Increasing the speed of your disks.
-Decreasing the number of RT layers.
-Limiting your RT bandwidth in User Preferences.Can anyone help. Are these actual solutions and if so how do I do these things?!?!
Thanks a lot
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13 Replies
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What hard drive array are you using. Certainly not your internal Mac HD.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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I’m using an external “iomega” 320 Gb hard drive. I’m saving everything (render, capture, etc.) onto it.
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[Rip Swan] “I’m using an external “iomega” 320 Gb hard drive. I’m saving everything (render, capture, etc.) onto it.”
USB? Firewire? Firewire 800?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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USB. And the hard drive needs to plug into the wall, not simply run off the computer
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[Rip Swan] “USB. And the hard drive needs to plug into the wall, not simply run off the computer”
There’s your problem. USB drives are not recommended in any way, shape or form for video editing. They cannot provide the sustained throughput for video editing. FW400 is the minimum drive recommended, FW800 is better, eSATA better yet.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now!
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So am i just kinda screwed then? cause this is the only hard drive i’ve got at my disposal.
And it’s weird cause i haven’t had any problems with it before. Maybe 4000% is just too much…
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You are not screwed. Hard drives are very inexpensive these days.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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[Rip Swan] “but when I bring their speeds up to around 2,000 – 5,000%, it won’t play the whole clip (which is now about 3-5 seconds).”
You did render this, right?
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uhh yeah. Anyone think it would help to export the one clip to quicktime then import that sepperately to the sequence?
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yup, that’d work
-Bryan
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