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Dropped Frames in FCP
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Ok I didn’t know. I took a FCP editing class in 2003 and all it dealt with was the actual editing the footage already captured. Never knew that. Why is that by the way? Thanks.
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[Jason Nedrich] “Ok I didn’t know. I took a FCP editing class in 2003 and all it dealt with was the actual editing the footage already captured. Never knew that. Why is that by the way? Thanks.”
Because the internal System Drive is running the OS and your Applications. It is not fast enough to do all of this AND play back media in realtime. It may do so for a while, especially if the drive is near empty, but sooner or later, you drop frames.
Always use an media drive or array that is at least twice as fast as you require for the format at hand. This is why we run 8TB and 16TB RAIDs here that run 400 to 700MB/s.
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[walter biscardi] “Because the internal System Drive is running the OS and your Applications. It is not fast enough to do all of this AND play back media in realtime.”
And to add to what Walter said above, if it can’t do all that and play back media in realtime, then it most likely will also drop frames during the capture process. If that happens and you are unaware of it, that winds up being a huge issue for which the only fix is often to start all over again capturing and recutting the entire project, pretty much from scratch.
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I never had dropped frames until now, the new footage. Should I transfer all the capture scratch and render files to my external HD?
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[Jason Nedrich] “Should I transfer all the capture scratch and render files to my external HD?
“Do not pass go, do not collect $200, proceed immediately to transfer your capture scratch to your external hard drive. You will have to relink all files afterward unless you use Media Manager to move the files, so you might want to check out using MM in the manual. Many don’t use MM and they seem to get along just fine, but some find they have to relink each file individually when they move the files manually. That is a risk only you can decide upon…
David Roth Weiss
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Thanks for helping this novice David. I will proceed to transfer tomorrow. I may and will have questions at that point. Thanks again.
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I moved the capture scratch and reconnected the media without any problems. Should I do the same with the render files?
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The render files should also be on the media drive, but you may find that you are unable to relink them. If so, delete them using the render manager and just change the location where the render files are stored in FCP System Preferences, and then re-render.
David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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So I should try the same method I used to reconnect the capture scratch first? Copy and paste in the Media Drive, then delete from the Main HD, and try to reconnect? If that doesn’t work, then delete using render manager? What is render manager and how do I find it? Thanks for all your help David.
Jason
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I copied from the main HD to the media HD. I haven’t deleted yet from the main.
I did try capturing again and the capturing seemed to go smoothly, then I dropped the clip into the timeline and it kept stopping in the middle giving me the dropped frames indicator. I have it on Safe RT and playback quality is medium and capture quality is the highest (as I’ve always had it).
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