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Droppin Frames
Dual 2.0 G5 6 gig O RAM, Newest OS, Huge U320R/Atto 320 UL4S.
Workin on a one hour documentary in 16×9, 8 bit uncompressed . . about 320 gigs so far. Can’t play more than a minute before it stops.
I’ve done the maintenance I know of. Tried it in both Unlimited and Safe and drops them.Any wisdom ?
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3 Replies
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Try a “Mixdown” of the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or DURING the edit, if you have audio/video slipping, drop-outs or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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Thanks . . .but the show is not finished and I need to keep all tracks (5) independent . . . won’t mixing down effect that ?
When you say slips . . . .what are they ?
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It will NOT affect anything in regards to the multi-tracks. They will stay separated for further editing.
And… every time you DO make an AUDIO CHANGE (after the mixdown) that section will become “un-mixed” so you might need to do it several times… if the sticking and stopping reoccur.At any rate it can’t HURT anything and it just might HELP.
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