Final Cut from Hell

[Andy Mees]

Hey Justin

if you’re looking to turn journaling off for your media drives then you can do it from the terminal:
sudo diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/VOLUMENAME (where VOLUMENAME is the name of the target media drive)

if you’re not comfortable in Terminal then I’d recommend “Cocktail”, which is a great little bit of shareware for dealing with up a host of otherwise tricky OSXy things
you can get it here: https://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html

cheers
Andy

[John Kaley]

I have had your timeline problem as well in the past. I was able to fix it by making the media offline, and then reconnecting it. The gap-in-the-timeline problem went away. This problem only seem to happen on clips that were captured with the “make new clip” option selected on video with timecode breaks.

[Mark Beazley]

Hmmm, really. I’ve had no problems with Firewire drives. At work I am using a G-RAID 320 and have yet to have any issues playing back DV, DVCPRO50, uncompressed 8bit or uncompressed 10bit with the drive.

I’ve had corrupted timelines before and simply copying and pasting does seem to work, at least for me.

Instead of just disabling Journaling from the Terminal or with cocktail, I would recommend that you re-format the drive with Disk Utility, without Journaling enabled.

-mark

[Kevin Monahan]

I’m actually speaking of FW 400 drives. GRaid is FW 800. However, even FW 400 drives work for some folks, but not all – and this is with DV only.

Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com

[Justinfay]

Uh-oh, I am having a potential breakthrough. Other than the journaling, this is the first thing that directly relates to my project. I had several clips that were captured with time code breaks with “make new clip” selected. I haven’t tried making the media offline and then relinking yet. I will try it and keep y’all posted.

Justin

[John]

Justin…

When you upgraded to the G5, did you by any chance transfer data from another Mac via the Apple FireWire ‘target disk mode’ (where you connect one machine to another with a firewire cable)? Just wondering…

I have upgraded 3 different G5’s in the last year using the target disk mode, and all ended up with applications performing very strangely. Reinstalling a clean system AND reinstalling all apps solved the problems. One of the machines had your exact problem where FCP would do very strange things in the timeline.

John

John Christensen
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