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FCP locking up during layoff
Getting an error while laying off in Final Cut Studio 5.1. The footage was captured via a Declink Extreme card uncompressed. The error states RT Extreme dropped frames could be caused by
-slow disks
-too many RT layers
-RT Bandwith settings in user prefsAny ideas besides the above?
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5 Replies
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Well, what drives are you using to store the media? Is everything FULLY rendered? No DARK green bar, but light blue. How many layers of video do you have?
before I output, I always export my sequence as a self contained QT file, so that FCP references only ONE file when outputting.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Everything is fully rendered, one layer of video and I’m using a GRAID2 as my primary scratch disk. I also should have mentioned it will lock up with same warning just playing on the timeline. We tried trashing the preferences with no luck and ran repair permissions on all hard disks. It is more than just one project.
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Are you rendering to the same drive as where your media is stored? If not, that may be causing the problem; the gap between the render files and the media.
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What codec are you laying off?
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I am having exactly the same problem, and it has only started since i upgraded to FCS2.
My system comprises G5 Quad, 4gb ram, Xserve raid (both fibre channels connected to my G5), Kona 3, 10 bit uncompressed Pal.
As i’m working on commercials, its not as if i have hours of footage on a timeline either.
Render files are all stored on same Xserve raid as all the other footage, and i’m the only user connected to the raidPrior to FCS2 – it was a very stable system…now i am having quite a few very flaky problems with lots of different areas of the software! Cetainly not Apples most helpful upgrade.
Adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK
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