FCP 5.1.4 beach ball on playback

[Eric Johnson]

How much space is left on the drives? If you have less than 100GB’s on a 1TB drive you’re running your drive in the RED. Also, where are you rendering to? you may need to lose some of your older render files to free up some disk space.

[Paolo Mugnaini]

thanks,
I have 1tb for render only, the other 3 with material on it are a little over 50%-
I shut down, turned the HDs off, turned them on again, restarted the G5….and it was fine. I really do not know what it is….I also have an extra FW card so not to create a power vacuum.

Thanks for your help!!

FCP 5.1.4 – PowerMac 2.2 Dual – 4.5 Gb Ram
1Tb G-Raid2 – 2 1Tb Lacies

[Don Greening]

Make sure Spotlight isn’t trying to search or index your media drives while you’re using them. You can drag your drive icons into Spotlight’s privacy window so it leaves them alone. Just a thought.

– Don

[Rafael Amador]

Run DiskWarrior or TechTools in all your drivers.
rafael

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[Paolo Mugnaini]

Don,
thanks..where’s the spotlight privacy window?

Rafael,
thanks. I have ran the warrior on all external drives-will run on the Mac one next.

thanks guys!!!!

Paolo

FCP 5.1.4 – PowerMac 2.2 Dual – 4.5 Gb Ram
1Tb G-Raid2 – 2 1Tb Lacies

[Don Greening]

[Paolo Mugnaini] “where’s the spotlight privacy window?”

Go to the System Preferences icon in the dock and click on the Spotlight icon. Choose the Privacy pane and drag your media drive icons from the desktop into the privacy window.

-Don

[Paolo Mugnaini]

thanks Don.
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FCP 5.1.4 – PowerMac 2.2 Dual – 4.5 Gb Ram
1Tb G-Raid2 – 2 1Tb Lacies