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Dropping frames
Hi,
I have a 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 iMac with a 2GB AMD Radeon HD 6970M graphics card and 20GB of DDR3 RAM.
FCPX has been working fine up until now, but suddenly has started dropping frames.
FCPX 10.0.5 btw
For extra info my iMac crashed last night because I was rendering out of After Effects and completely ran out of memory. I now have 40% free space and have reset the parameter random access memory (PRAM) and nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM). Still the problem persists.
Footage is not proxy and is being pulled from my Mac hard drive.
Any ideas?
Olly Lawer
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3 Replies
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I had a similar problem on the same spec iMac rendering in FCPX and Motion 5 in 1080p. So I upgraded the ram to 16 gb and start working with proxy-media instead of full quality preview. That fixed the issue for me. But with 20 gigs of ram you should be covered.
Did you recently installed a new app that could cause the crash? I have a java-based backup solution (CrashPlan) running and it needs a restart once in a while due to ram consumption.
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It also could be hard drive fragmentation.
It goes higher on the suspect list because you said you ran out of space, which means that the drive might have been writing data to non-contiguous blocks on the drive out of necessity.
Back everything critical up and use a tool like Disk Warrior to defrag your drive.
That might make a significant difference.
(Also, in the future, try to avoid “filling up” your hard drive space by backing up unused stuff regularly. Computers tend to work better if they have enough storage space available to do their behind the scenes houskeeping tasks regularly.
FWIW.
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Any luck on resolving your issue? I am having the same problem.
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