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Final Cut Log and Transfer to External Hard Drive
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It could be contention on the USB bus, the USB interface in your external drive, the drive’s write buffers (or lack thereof) or even the drive itself.
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Open Disk Utility, and select your drive. Does it say Mac OS Extended or FAT32? If it’s the latter, you’d do well to reformat it to Mac (bear in mind that this will erase everything on the drive).
And David:
“USB does not deliver the sustained throughput required for video editing, period, end of story”
That might not be a good phrase to throw around these days, with both LaCie and CalDigit putting out USB3 drives that most definitely ARE capable of video editing.
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Yes, I’ve reformatted several times, making sure it was mac os. I’m just going to exchange it for a new one…
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As I said, I don’t think the HD is the problem.
I’ve been sent to the exile with a MBP 17 and a 1.5TB USB drive full of footage.
No problem. The bottleneck of the process is not in he media drive, but on the GPU/CPU when I’m de-noising or applying MB Looks.
What about maintenance?
Do you think your system is optimized?
Clean Permissions and directories, etc?
rafael
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