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FCP slow and laggy
Hey all:
I work at a TV station and we all edit on FCP HD. (4.5). They are slower machines (G4’s and one G5.) Without getting into all the hardware specs, I think this is a broader question.
The machines have been perfectly funcitonal until recently. Not sure if it’s a coincidence or not but they’ve all totally become bogged down at around the same time. By this I mean editing has become painfully slow. Even withuout any effects on the timeline, just moving the playhead back and forth is met with annoying lag. If you try to pull the end of a clip in, there’s about a 1-2 second delay before it even responds. This makes for some frustrating editing. It’s happened to four of our edit suites.
Anyone have any clue? I don’t think this is a matter of ‘trashing preferences’ but who knows. I know we won’t get blazing speed from these machines but they fuctioned perfectly fine for standard editing until recently.
Our tech guy seems to think it might be an unstable Quicktime upgrade but he’s just taking a stab in the dark & really has no idea.
J.
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9 Replies
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Its indeed very possible that running a modern version of QT with an ancient version of FCP could upset the Apple cart. I don’t think 4.5 users were supposed to progress beyond a certain level of QT, but I’m not sure which one that is.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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You gotta dig deeper than that.
What’s going on when the “slowness” occurs? Is someone doing an output? A distributed render? We recently had a similar “slowdown” and then realized that an assistant editor was doing a “distributed rendering” pass which brought everyone to their knees.
I’m assuming that you’re working in workgroup on a X-SAN or similar type of SAN.
Chances are, if everything use to work just fine, something else is contributing to your problem… not corrupt media.
Good luck.
mark
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Thanks for the replies guys.
I feared I may have to dig deeper. The answer is never something easy eh?
Although I should mention that our computers aren’t networked at all. So no workgroup or anything of that nature. Yes, we’re really that behind the times.
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How about posting your details OSX??? QT??? ect.
KB
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Are all your machines connected on a local network? Could be the problem with that, especially if your media is stored on a shared server. Had a similar problem with an avid editshare system I worked on a while back. My only advice would be to disconnect the network and run a couple of machines standalone and see what happens…
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Surely this is ‘the old dupe frames’ problem. If you have ‘duplicate frames’ turned on in the sequence settings, for ANY sequence, open or not, then it will produce this lag. I have had this loads. But you will need to turn it off on ALL sequences in any open project. …repeat…ALL sequences. You should find it magically up to speed. This is fixed in version 5.
best wishes
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Duplicate frames eh? I’ve never heard of this issue. But you mean to say I’ve got to hunt through my machine and open ALL FCP projects to turn it off? Yikes.
Incidentally, I am running operating system 10.3.9 and have Quicktime 7.2.0 installed.
While all suites are connect via internet, we have no server of any sort and transfer footage out only via external hard drive and tape.
Jay
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I think The last version of Quicktime 6 was the best version for FCP 4.5. I think the last version was Quicktime 6.5.1 or 6.5.2. I can’t remember off of the top of my head what exactly it was.
Quicktime 7.2, while no solid proof, seems to have caused some issues. Many people have been posting problems after upgrading, even on the latest version of FCP, let alone 4.5.
Jeremy
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Hi Jay,
Dupe Frames was a big problem with FCP4.5, Search back on the forum, i have answered this problem at least 10 times! You only need to change sequences in projects that are open! Honestly, this works. I bet my house this is what it is.…admittedly the house is in the UK, but hey you might want a holiday….
nick
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