Final Cut creating HUGE files during capture

[Shane Ross]

#10 Capture now makes large file, Beachball

Shane’s Stock Answer #10: ALLOCATING DISKSPACE

1) Set a limit on Capture Now. Never have that box unchecked. Set it to 60 min if you want the whole tape.

2) Do not under any circumstances run any anti-virus/filesaver software. Including Norton and Virex. Sure, Apple doles out Virex for free, but FCP doesn’t cooperate with it very well.

If you absolutely feel you must keep Virex installed on your system then use Kevin’s script to shut it off before you use FCP:
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@85.zPgDaaNeQzT.323013@.68a85d17

3) Do not capture to your main system drive.

4) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mas OS Extended, jornalling 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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[Tom Brooks]

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[Mark Barroso]

Did this fix your problem? It seems a lot of people are having this problem of a HUGE file being created on capture. BTW Shne, love your DVD about capturing. Does it come with one free phone call?

FCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500

[John Urban]

Same problem here.
Loaded the latest Software update and I think that
included Quicktime and a security update. Since then
I can’t load video. I’ll have a 150 free gigs on an external
HD and after only a few minutes of importing video it
freezes and when I check the external HD it says there
are only a couple of gigs left. Well, 6 minutes of DV is
NOT 148 gigs. HELP??? PLEASE???
Thanks,
John

Mac G4
Dual 1 Ghz Power PC
10.3.9

[Dom Brassey]

Same problem here; 5 minutes of captured video is creating a 113GB QuickTime file, then freezing up with a spinning rainbow cursor because my HD is out of space.

FinalCut Pro (4.5) will not force quit; Quicktime Player (7.4 (92), updated 1/16/2008) to take a peek at the enormous file, QuickTime Player is also non-responsive, and won’t force quit. Same story when I try to play the file in LiveType.

I tried capturing again with the QuickTime application file (32MB) in the trash; same problem.

I haven’t touched my capture settings; I have 109GB available on the external HD that I’m capturing to.

Any ideas? (Thanks in advance.) –domlet.

[John Urban]

Dom,
The problem was and still is Quicktime 7.3.
Doesn’t work with FCP 4.5.
I was just about to buy my new Apple and I
did so no more problems for me, but unfortunately
for you, you either have to reinstall your OS and
go back to QT 7.1 or upgrade FCP to 5.
Best of luck,
John

[Mark Barroso]

My problem was created by upgrading to QT 7.3 and using it with FCP 4.5. When using Captured Now, it created huge .av files. My problem was solved by reverting back to QT 7.2, which was a major pain (ended up having to re-install OS). I got my answer in another post.

I am using an old G4 Powerbook and don’t think it can handle later versions of FCP. The preferred solution would be to upgrade everything to the latest versions, but for me it was cost prohibitive, so I went BACK to the tried and true method.

Hope this helps,
Mark

FCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500