HELP! Stalled Timeline (Won’t Play)

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[Jerry Jones] “3. The updated Quicktime was installed (required for FCP 5).

The project I’m trying to work with was created in FCP 4.5. I am still working in 4.5 (but of course, am using the updated version of Quicktime, which I was not using before).

I think the above is the culprit. That seems the most likely.

Did you RENDER everything?
Did you TRASH the FCP Preferences?
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

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If its still not working, try this:

File (menu) > Export > Quicktime Movie… > Current Settings / Audio and Video / CHECK the “Make Movie Self-Contained” box.

This will give you a QT movie that should be playable when dropped back into FCP.

[Jason Mccaffrey]

Also, you say your hard drives aren’t tapped out, but how full are they? From what I have gleaned from the cow, you don’t want your media drives to ever be above an 80% capacity.

Jason

[Jp Driscoll]

Double check the scratch disk and render file locations. If they are on the wrong drive it can grind FCP down to a halt. Recently had that problem with someone changing settings on me.

JP Driscoll

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[Jerry Jones]

A quick update!

First, a huge thanks for each of you who took time to offer ideas, suggestions, wisdom. Most appreciated.

Here is what I’ve done in my troubleshoooting process of elimination:
1. I had been trying to open this file in FCP 4.5. Always stalling out.
2. I opened it in FCP 5. Still had the same stalling out problem.
3. I begin to see if I could get any part of it to play on the timeline. So I began to close my audio tracks one at at time. This helped, but still did not completely solve the problem. (Although, when I turned ALL AUDIO off, the timeline seemed to play fine — the video was okay.)
4. Thinking that it might be more an audio issue than video, I began looking at my audio settings. I changed my rate from 48 to 44.1, just to experiement.
5. This seemed to work. Once I made this change, I could play the entire tiimeline in FCP 5. (When I did the same thing in FCP 4.5, I still had problems.)
6. Moving to FCP 5 caused me to loose a couple of filters that I originally had in the project. So will need to resolve that. And of course, had to do more rendering. But as of now, it seems to be playing quite nicely in FCP 5 with audio at 44.1.

MY NEW QUESTION:
Why am I getting play in 44.1 and not in 48? I have always used 48 in the past. So why is it allowing me to play the timeline set at 44.1 and not 48? Do I have some other setting goofed up that would cause this to happen?

Again, in FCP 5, the video played fine when audio was turned off. This was true with both audio settings 48 and 44.1.

What are the issues I need to look at on this?

Thanks again.

JD

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

1. What kind of audio? (Source)
2. If some of it is sync sound from your video tapes, did you capture the audio and video as separate files? (big no-no)
3. Was the camcorder set to 48 kHz audio sampling, 32 kHz audio sampling, or some of each?
4. How many Realtime Audio Mixing audio tracks have you chosen in User Preferences?
5. Is your playback set to High Quality?