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having a world of trouble w HIGH QUALITY PLAYBACK GREYED OUT and G5 crashing on sleep
Hi again – if anyone remembers me. I’ve posted previously regarding the title’s issue and have NOT yet found a remedy to the problem. Please, if anyone has any bright ideas, I’m all ears!
previous post (with update that follows):
I’ve posted a few times on the matter, and three weeks on now, the problem is still totally unresolved. After cutting with HDV 1080p 30 in a timeline of the same for nearly 2 years, and with no playback issues at all, I now find myself with the “High” quality setting greyed out. I’ve also had several kernel panics, with fans running during sleep mode, and can only assume, but am unsure, that the two are related. To briefly summarize, I’ve erased the OS, reinstalled Leopard from scratch, reinstalled FCS 2, tested before upgrading (at FCP vs 6.0.4), and also with latest updates, reseated the RAM, reset the VRAM and PRAM, bought NEW RAM (tried with various placements, between 2 GB and 4GB), and even bought a new external harddrive – and have of course tested with no peripherals connected, including that drive or internet. I also took the computer into a local Apple Store where they tested it for 2 days, finding nothing wrong! I showed them that “High” is greyed out, they recognize my problem, but they simply have no answers for me — other than to suggest that MAYBE it’s the processor.
HDV 720p plays High Quality and seems to be the bar. Anything above that, HDV 1080p 30, or ProRes, doesn’t. And just to reiterate, IT DID less than 3 weeks ago for almost 2 years.
Update:
With the help of David Ross Weith (of this board), I tested the speed of my external hard drives using an AJA app. These were my results:
file size: 128 MB
NTSC 25 – Write: 51.5 MB/s, Read: 59.0
1920*1080 8 bit – W: 68.4, R: 78.9file size: 1 GB
NTSC 25 – W: 51.3, R: 59.4
1920*1080 8 bit – 69, R: 78.8Someone then suggested that these numbers are low and this is my problem. However, the drive is brand spanking new (Lacie d2 Quadra 1TB) and my old one gives the same readings – and that’s what I was using for 2yrs without issue. It should also be noted that when I trash FCP prefs, and open a new project without any drives attached – using the HDV 30p easy setup – my High setting is STILL greyed out.
When rendering yesterday, I wrote down the numbers from iStat Pro:
Active: 1.7 Gb
Inactive: 46 Mb
Used: 1.92 Gb
Free 2.03 Gb
Swap: 64 Mb
Pages in: 51,275
Pages out: 0Does this raise any flags? Shouldn’t FCP be using all 4 GB’s of RAM, especially while rendering?
There is also an error message I keep seeing in the console that repeats itself every minute or so while I’m not actively on the internet:
29/01/10 9:39:27 AM kernel { 41 810400} UniNEnet::restartReceiver
I’ve found several posts related to this (which appears to have arrived with the OS 10.5.8 update), no solutions, and I honestly have no idea whether it has any bearing on my problem anyway.
Many many many thanks to anyone who responds with suggestions or help!!!
Chris
2 GHz PowerPC G5, 10.5.8, 4 GB DDR SDRAM, FCS 2
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4 Replies
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Christopher- I am having the exact problem! Have you figured it out yet? I had a major crash working in FCP 6.0.5 with my G-5 2.0. It is driving me crazy. ‘High’ quality playback is gone (greyed out). I’ve tested my external monitor and my Kona LH and they are working fine. Just no HD high quality out of FCP. Are you in Vancouver USA or Canada? I’m in Portland. Maybe with both of us working on it we can figure it out.
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
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Jerry, I’m both thrilled that you’re having the same problem, and sorry for you! I have not solved it yet. I’ve posted also on the Apple FCP Discussions page and was given a few suggestions. You might want to look at my posts there as well, and see what some had to say. Just search for my name I guess.
I’ll get back to you later tomorrow night if I can with more details and, yes, maybe we can solve this together! Just have something else pressing for my time at the moment.
I live in Vancouver, Canada.
Talk to you soon!
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Christopher- Well, to update on my situation. My boot-up situation was getting more and more tenuous. Finally nothing but gray screen and spinning ball which would continue to spin until it timed out and the slash icon showed. Tried everything. Resetting ram. Pulling PCIX cards. Trying to boot from start up disk, etc. etc. Nothing worked. Hauled it to the Apple store genius bar and they worked on in for 2 hrs. Their conclusion; bad motherboard or bad processor(s) or both. I finally shifted out of the denial stage and am ordering a MacPro. 6 1/2 years is pretty darn good for a computer. Luckily I had just completed and delivered two big projects. I’ve borrowed a G-5 from a video buddy who had gone MacPro 8 months ago and his old G-5 was gathering dust. I slapped in my MacHD and internal drive and am now transfering stuff getting ready for the new gear. Just by booting up with my old MacHD I think proves my issue was HARDWARE related.
The thing that gets me is that the FCP timeline RT setting instantly shows no HIGH quality option. FCP KNOWS there is a problem. Why can’t it give you a dialogue box that tells you what the problem might be and a list of SOLUTIONS to resolve the problem. Hope this gives you some info.
Jerry
G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP Studio 6.02
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1
GV-HD700 -
Jerry, too bad you had to bite the bullet. But I’m sure you’ll be better off for it. I’m not yet convinced my problem is hardware related. But can’t think of anything left to try… I agree with your last paragraph – should be a reason provided if FCP is suddenly going to take away the ‘High’ quality setting. Just knowing it’s been ‘intentional’ instead of ‘accidental’ on my part would give me a great deal of comfort…
Good luck,
Chris
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