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Final Cut Pro 3
My new boss’ final cut pro 3 is on the fritz. Here is how he describes it:
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Jerry Hofmann and I already answered you the first time you posted this exact same question down below. No reason for a second thread.
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How much space have you got left on the drives?
Have you tried connecting another drive, starting a new project and seeing what happens?
Peter
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Thank You Peter,
There is 1 GB left on all four of the partitioned internal drives. The rest of the computer, including Final Cut, runs smoothly. It is only when we play back the digitized clips that things get glitchy. Not in a dropped frame sort of way… the playback is choppy and the freezing is much more consistent, often elongated. At times the timeline cursor moves forward while the image stops, and then the image catches up while the cursor stops. This happens in both the viewer and the canvas. The audio also cuts out completely before the end of a clip. We tried saving media to the external hard drive, and it still plays back the same crappy way.
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1 GB left on all four partitions is likely your problem. Your drives are dangerously over-full. (is that 1 GB each, or 1 GB total?!?!)
The general rule is that ALL drives attached to the computer must have AT LEAST 10% of it’s space free, if not 20%. This includes the system drive. This is especially important when using large files, like video files.
The system needs free drive space to swap memory files, among other things.
Clear off all those drives so that none is more than 90% full, and better if it were 80%, and see if that improves things.
Also, why and how are theses drives partitioned? There are few reasons in this day and age to partition drives. How many actual drives are there internally?
debe
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