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FCP exports funny
Im a first year film student so bear with me. I have my finished cut in the timeline, it has been rendered and i exported it using quick time. when i plays i get dropped frames and even a green screen flash frame. i tried just exporting the video and audio separate but it goes out of sync.
EDIT i have since turned on dropped frames and im getting them. i have turned off all audio tracks so i only have v1 playing and it is still dropping frames even after render?
n e hints?
Many Thanks
Lloyd Rivers -
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First guess would be your drives. Sounds like it (they) might not be fast enough to play back your file. What format is your project?
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I’m going to take a guess and say that all your media is on a USB drive. If that’s the case then that’s your answer. You need to transfer everything onto a faster drive.
Slow drives are almost always the reason for dropped frames.
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What computer are you using, what codec is your sequence, what bit depth, what size?
Are you rendering to the System HD?
rafael -
Sequence settings are 1920 1080 HDTV 1081(16.9) it was shot on a canon 60d. its actually only 1 video clip that i have ramped up to 700%. All the files/clips/audio are on my mac hard drive which is 2tb
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Lloyd Rivers -
it seems to be the audio thats causing it. i have exported it as aif and then re imported it but im still getting dropped frames
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Lloyd Rivers -
seems i should have transcoded all the clips to prores before i started. grim
Many Thanks
Lloyd Rivers -
Don’t edit from your system drive. Use a second internal drive (at least) or an external RAID if possible for best results. Depending on the format of your HD clips, you will need some fairly fast drives.
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