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Footage grabs or freezes briefly on timeline
This is not exactly like the “jittery” footage posting. We are editing in SD. Good clips that have
been fine months ago for a project, now play with an occasional “grab in the video”. No windows
or warnings pop up, no dropped frames or anything. Especially when the clip has a pan or zoom
in it, the video just “grabs” momentarily- Looks like a few frames occasionally have been edited out of the clip, but hasn’t. 1st tiime
since the system was installed 30 months ago this has happened. Our 2 Cal digit eSATA drives
we use have 50% avail on them, but have never been wiped clean and re-striped, just move over
footage and “delete-empty trash”. Either RAID 0 or RAID 1.
Working with clients all day, can be frustrating with this.
Thanks,Dual 3.0 Intel Tower
Leopard 10.5.8
4Gig RAM
FCP vers 6.0.6
Caldigit S2VR eSATA drives- 2 TB
AE-vers 8.0.2
PSD- vers 10.0D’s Video
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The three most common things you need to do are:
1. Trash preferences
2. Fix permissions using Apple Disk Utility
3. Run Disk Warrior on all drivesIf you don’t have Disk Warrior you really do need it. Every professional should have it and no one with clients should ever be without it.
If the three things above don’t work, then you most likely have a bad file or a bad filter somewhere in your project or on your system that you will need to track down.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Thanks very much David! We will trash the prefs first. We’ve had to do this at times before but
just did not think about it. We will let you know if and when the problem gets fixed.D’s Video
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I would format if u can. The drives can still become fragmented.
Drag all media off to a back-up drive. Format raid. Drag all files back. This might help. It has for us in the past.Chris Tompkins
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Thanks Chris! We used to do that as “SOP” with our old MAC-based editing system- The Affinity by Accom and it worked. We Just got another 1 TB FW800 for backup use so will do this ASAP.
D’s Video
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Hi David! Wanted to let you know, looks like the Trashing Prefs worked. We still need to clean
our drives and are going to get Disk Warrior ASAP. Had this on our old MAC-Based system- The
Affinity by Accom and worked great.D’s Video
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It’s the little things in life that hold back progress…
Glad it worked for you.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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