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FCP HD Filling up G-Raid completely and crashing on capture
Ok,
Apologies to those who have already tried to help me with this issue but I still can’t fix it.
I am running the first version of FCP HD on a Dual 2gb G5, capturing Analogue video through an ADVC110 Firewire unit.
Every time I try to capture the G-Raid fills up completely and the the FCP itself crashes. The only way to fix the machine is to reboot it and delete the massive Scratch Cache created on the external drive.
I have tried:
correct easy setup
limiting the total time of captured clips
limiting the total size of captured clipsCan anyone help??
Alex
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3 Replies
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#10 – Capture now makes large file, Beachball
Shane’s Stock Answer #10: Capture now makes large file, cursor becomes a spinning beachball
ISSUE: ALLOCATING DISKSPACE
1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.
2) Deactivate any anti-virus/file saver software, including Norton and Virex. For some reason these programs think that the large files created when you capture media are in fact caused by some sort of virus, and they try to prevent this.
3) Do not capture to your main system drive. While this works for some, it doesn’t for many and really is not the best way to capture and store your footage. Get a good external hard drive. Firewire or eSATA are good options.
4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. Typically if you buy a hard drive that is pre-formatted, it is formatted as FAT32, a PC format. For best results it should be formatted Mas OS Extended, journaling off. If it isn’t, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.
Shane
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thanks for the info but i have tried all those things 🙁
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