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FCP freezing video during playback
Hello to all,
I have not seen this yet. I was working along, minding my own business, and FCP decided it didn’t like something I did and began stuttering/frame freezing on me.
The only thing that I can think of is that I rendered at full quality. Now on only the clips with the light blue render bar, my video is slow to start, then plays fine for about 2 secs, then stutters, then freezes. The playhead continues to move but no video.
Can you render too many times, I hate working in Unlimited RT, so I render a lot. But I don’t understand this. I am working on FCP6, a Mac Pro Quad w/ 8gigs, cutting DVCProHD footage, and have not had this problem before. All of my other projects are playing back fine, just not the one that is due tomorrow, of course.
Thanks in advance for all of your help,
Beau
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2 Replies
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There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, 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 for your reply Thax,
But that didn’t help. I know tried to export the sequence and exactly where the Light Blue render bars are (which are supposed to be the bars that indicate something that has all ready been rendered) it stutters/freezes.
I do not get it! If you have any thoughts please let me know.
Beau
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