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HELP!!! TRYING TO MAKE DEADLINE… VIDEO LOCKING UP!
Today I upgraded to FCP 4.5. I was orginally using FCP 3 and it worked just fine. Now I have a story deadline to meet and the program isn’t working. When I try to play video in the viewer and timeline, the video locks up after 3 seconds while the audio plays on. When I pause the video, it jumps to the proper frame.
Why won’t the video play smooth? Am I up a s**t creek?
Please help… anybody.
Dave Roberts
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3 Replies
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Is your canvas in fit to window?
Have you tried trashing your prefs or running FCP rescue?
have you fixed permissions?
Peter
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Or export as self-contained movie and re-import into a new project.
Good luck David !
Uwe
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David,
I had same problem. For me, the freezing occurs only when I previewed through Firewire. Assuming you’re working with NTSC DV and viewing through an NTSC monitor, try these things:
-Restart FCP with the camera already on
-Once up, make sure your Timeline window is active, and toggle the Firewire output by pressing Cmd-F12 a few times
-Resize your Canvas to 50%
-Also, close any unused sequence tabs in the timeline.These procedures usually work for me. Let me know how it works for you.
Andrew
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