Final Cut 7 stuttering playing prores 422 LT

[Aaron Fisher-cohen]

It’s a WD Caviar Black 7200 6Gb/s drive. Should not be in issue at all and like I said, I can play higher bit rate stuff from that drive no problem. It’s only about a third full.

I do have a FW drive I can try, I’ll do that when I have a chance.

[Aaron Fisher-cohen]

To anybody following this thread, I figured something out…sort of.

After editing in Premiere for half a week without any issues, I came back into FCP to try some things out. I noticed that even though single clips stuttered like hell, a two-clip multiclip played flawlessly. This obviously made no sense at first. Then, I wondered if Final Cut was automatically lowering the playback quality for the mulitclip, so I set the timeline to play at “medium” quality and, lo and behold, the single clips played fine, too.

So, even though I had my playback quality setting at “dynamic,” I guess FCP didn’t recognize that it had to play single clips at a lower quality. As soon as I forced it too, it seems to have worked.

I still think it should be able to play these clips at full quality without issue but this is good enough for now since I can’t really visually tell the difference anyway.