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Final Cut Pro Drops Frames or Freezes
When I am trying to play back video from the timeline I am getting dropped frames from my RAID array. I have “mixed-down” the audio. I have rendered. Currently, I am running OSX 10.4.7, Kona SD card w/BlackMagic Decklink v 5.6, QT version 7.1.2 and FCP 5.0.4. I also have the latest Atto update.
Since I can’t get the timeline to play the video, I have tried to Export a Quicktime and the system gets about 28 of the 32 Gigs exported when the system freezes and I see the beach ball. How can I get this show to tape or DVD??!! Please help.
Thanks in advance,
Sean Harris
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[Sean Harris] “When I am trying to play back video from the timeline I am getting dropped frames from my RAID array. I have “mixed-down” the audio. I have rendered. Currently, I am running OSX 10.4.7, Kona SD card w/BlackMagic Decklink v 5.6, QT version 7.1.2 and FCP 5.0.4. I also have the latest Atto update.”
Need more info?
What is your sequence settings? What about your drive array? SCSI or SATA? How space is left on RAID?
Are you using on of the new Mac Pros? If so, are you using more than 2 gig of RAM?
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Wayne Carey
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The sequence setting is Blackmagic YUV 8-bit, the RAID array is a SCSI Medea 320 w/160Gigs free, Mac G4 w/dual 1.42 and 2Gigs ram.
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So I assume that that you are capturing Uncompressed 8-bit, am I correct? How many drives are in your RAID? 2, 4, or 6?
If there are only two drives, that may be your problem. SCSI 320, depending on its age, can’t always handle HD video with only two drives. That’s why you are seeing so many RAIDs being built with SATA II drives in them.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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I think the problem was a bad file. I re-captured video in the suspect portion of the show. No more freezing of FCP and no more dropped frames.
Thanks for the support.
Sean
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