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Dropped frames SD firewire400
Hello all – this is my first post.
I recently picked up final cut pro 6 and installed it on my mac. I quickly realized that I would need to upgrade my macbook if I wanted to stop getting the dreaded “dropped frames” warning every two seconds during playback. Since then…
– I’ve upgraded my macbook’s RAM to 2 Gb – no, it’s not a pro 🙁 –
– I have my media files stored on an external SATA hard drive (7200 rpm, 16 mb cache, firewire 400 connection to macbook)Even tho my scratch disks are set on the external hard drive, I am getting the same dropped frames warning (despite lowering my playback settings) just by slowing down my clip via time-remap to 80% and putting in a transition.
I don’t know. Maybe I have the scratch disk set up wrong ? The footage isn’t HD or anything, it’s a 40 mb MPEG 4 video
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. –jL
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[Jon Lucas] “it’s a 40 mb MPEG 4 video”
That’s your problem…MPEG-4 is not an editable codec. You need to convert to a format you find in the EASY SETUPS, like DV/NTSC.
MPEG STREAMCLIP does this…and it’s free. GOOGLE!
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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No. The amount of RAM is now good, and you should NEVER edit using USB. Not suited for video editing.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Awesome! I will try that tonight. I had read that some formats were too “codec-y” for final cut to work with, but i assumed mpeg4 was fine because its common and small. Good to know that is not the case. Thanks for the help !
PS – does this mean that upgrading my RAM and hard drive (USB to firewire 400) was unnecessary ?
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Works great now! Thanks a lot
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