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frame dropping
I realize this topic comes up all the time.
I’m in a sticky situation. I have a layoff that I need done ASAP. The sequence is almost 2 hours long and I can’t get through more than a couple of minutes of playback (or print to video) with out a frame dropping. The thing is rendered and I’ve tried different playback settings, the audio playback is set to low…nothing seems to fix it. I’ve done layoffs on the same system of longer length before with out so much trouble.
FCP 4.5
OS 10.4.2
8 La Cie Firewire drives of various gigs -
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[melissa] “8 La Cie Firewire drives of various gigs”
There’s a read flag for me. Are all 8 connected to your system? Is the media spread out across multiple drives? That will cause all kinds of issues for a project as long as yours. I can’t imagine a 2 hour timeline playing out without dropping frames with media spread out across so many drives of different sizes.
the best advice I can give you is to export the timeline as a self contained movie onto one drive, hopefully one that’s relatively empty. Then bring that file into the project and try to play that off.
If your drives are quite full or fragmented, even this may not work.
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After doing what Walter suggests, which is great advise, and may be all that you need….but
Try an audio mixdown and remove all overlays from your canvas (safe title & timecode etc).I bet that after you do all of these things, your output experience will be much smoother.
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