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Fast Forward & Rewind Hangs when mouse is moved
I’ve just gotten my first Mac together with Final Cut Studio.
It’s a Dual 2.7 Powermac with 2.5GB of Ram.
I’m running Tiger 10.4.2 and FCP 5.0.2
I have a 400GB system drive, and a 400GB secondary internal drive.
My secondary drive is being used as the scratch disk for FCP.
My project files are all saved onto the system drive.I’ve only been using the software for about the past week (I switched over from Avid).
So maybe there is something simply that I’m overlooking.The problem I have with my system is that if I’m fastforwarding or rewinding through the timeline (when JKL editing), if I move the mouse at all it freezed the display both on my computer monitor and my external monitor. Once I let go of the mouse the computer will refresh the image, and continue to fastforward or rewind as normal.
If I don’t touch the mouse, everything is fine. I can see the images on both displays (computer and external monitor). But the second I touch the mouse, even the slightest bit, both displays freeze.
I’ve checked and rechecked everysingle setting I can think of in FCP and on my system.
I’ve trashed my preferences, and rebuilt my directories.
So far, nothing has helped.Other than this bug, everything seems to be working fine.
But obviously, this isn’t something I want to work around.
Any ideas?Thanks in advance.
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3 Replies
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I have respectable information that mouse activity interferes with FCP5. This is apparently built into the user interface for FCP5. Depending on your configuration, you may experience long and tedious waits. It’s disturbing. Is it disgusting? It’s annoying as hell.
Not a damn thing we can do about it except complain.
Encourage you to drop by the apple.com support/discussion area for fcp5 and drop a note in the Feedback folder. Lot of freakin’ good it will do any of us but it might make you feel better.This is one of those things that makes you look at Apple and wonder who is in charge/
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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I really hope you’re wrong on this… if not then I’m starting to experience some serious buyer’s remorse.
I’d like to hear from anyone else here running FCP5.
Are other people having the same issues?
Is anyone NOT having this mouse issue?I was running Avid on a 1.6Gb chip with only 512Mb of ram, and it seemed to be more responsive than FCP on my new PowerMac. Something has to be wrong here.
I’ll post in the feedback forum like you suggested.
Thanks for the reply.Luis Caffesse
Studio 3 Productions, Inc.
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[bogiesan] “this is apparently built into the user interface for FCP5.”
Are you saying someone told you this is a feature? That can’t be, it’s a bug and it wasn’t there in 4.5.Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7
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