Dropped Frames – HELP

[Steve Connor]

Use the disk Utility programme, when you click on the drive it tells you the format details

[Jason Lyons]

To find out if Journaling is on you can select the drive in question and do a get info (Apple-I) and look under format – it will say “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.

By having successfully captured before with this machine it almost sounds like may be something OS related. You may want to clear the OS cobwebs that form from time to time between restarts. Try:
1) Power everything down
2) Reseat all connectors
3) Power everything back up Restart & Try again
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If that doesnt help, try:
– Try using a different deck/camera to source with
– Run Disk First Aid
– Run Disk Warrior

Good Luck
jason

[Gevboston]

And I belive I DO NOT want it journaled? Is that correct?

[Jason Lyons]

Personally I have never had a problem sourcing tons of DV footage to a drive with Journaling turned on, but I was using a Dual 2GHz G5 not an eMac, so try turning it off.

Ken Stone covers setting up drives and how to turn off journaling here:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

Cheers!

j

[Rafael Amador]

Keep journaled the disks where you’ve got a system installed. The rest you can disable the journalling.
Cheers,
rafael