Jerky timline and monitoring EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED !!!

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

Jerky timline and monitoring EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED !!!

Posted by Dane Silzle on May 28, 2005 at 4:52 pm

Need help extremely frustrated !!!

I have been editing in FCP 3 and 4 and will be installing FCP 5 soon.
I do most of my work in SD 4.2.2 with My Deckllink Extreme card on my G5.
I have no problem with 10bit uncompressed even up to 1 hout long sequences
working with the Decklink card and my HUGE U320 RAID, 3 video tracks, 6 or more AUDIO, Live type and everything works smoth as silk, (monitoring,editing, you name it).

However because of storage space I still want to edit some event work in DV.
This involves some sequences 15minutes or longer. When I work in DV within
the first minute both the displays (in FCP and my NTSC monitor) start getting
jerky, drop frame warning comes up ….

I have looked on other threads on this forum and have tryed; trashing FCP prefrences (from user>Library) and have checked my Viewers and set them to Fitall

Also thinking I might have a conflick with my Decklink card and apples firewire
I switch back to my dual G4 for firewire but still have the same problems.
I also have a new 1.67ghz power book that does it too, although a little less.

I must be doin somthing worng cause
On all of my systems I run RAID’s:
do I have to install another FW card to make these systems work wright ?

here is my systems:

SYSTEM 1
Dual 2ghz G5
10.3.8
2.5gb DDR
FCP 4.6
HUGE U320 RAID 1.2TB (ave. 320mbs)
decklink extreme capture card

SYSTEM 2
Dual 1.42ghz G4
10.3.8
FCP 4.6
2.5gb DDR
SIIG internal RAID 320GB

SYSTEM 3
1.67ghz 15″ Power Book
1gb DDR
FCP 4.6
External G-RAID 320GB (FW 800)
plus PCMCIA FW 400 card for capture.

Note this system edits DV best ??? go figure

please offer HELP

Thanks

Dane

Steve Connor replied 21 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Dane Silzle
May 28, 2005 at 6:08 pm

OK If I Just Play a Clip in the Viewer in FCP
There is no problem.
BUT If I add the clip to the Timlnie in a sequence
that is where it gets Jerky on both Canvas and NTSC Monitors.

I set the Canvas to “fit to window” and also tried “fit all”
still no change..

any sugestions ?
Chris Poisson
May 28, 2005 at 7:09 pm

Dane,

Try doing an audio mixdown.
Dane Silzle
May 28, 2005 at 7:13 pm

Chris,

Just did the audio mixdown….
did not fix it 🙁

other sugestion are welcome PLEASE 🙂
Steve Connor
May 28, 2005 at 7:15 pm

Full FCP reinstall would be my next step, I’ve had this problem before and it cured it. BTW what version of QuickTime are you running?

Steve Connor
Cardinal HD
Dane Silzle
May 28, 2005 at 7:30 pm

Hi Steve,

I’m running QT 6.5.2
FCP 4.5 (soon to be 5)

I am haveing this problem for over two years on three systems.
All three are still having this issue.. you say to reinstal
FCP, but could it be the same on all 3 machines..
Or is it just a setting I’m missing ?

here is my systems:

SYSTEM 1
Dual 2ghz G5
10.3.8
2.5gb DDR
FCP 4.6
HUGE U320 RAID 1.2TB (ave. 320mbs)
decklink extreme capture card

SYSTEM 2
Dual 1.42ghz G4
10.3.8
FCP 4.6
2.5gb DDR
SIIG internal RAID 320GB

SYSTEM 3
1.67ghz 15″ Power Book
1gb DDR
FCP 4.6
External G-RAID 320GB (FW 800)
plus PCMCIA FW 400 card for capture.

Note this system edits DV best ??? go figure

please offer HELP

Thanks

Dane
Steve Connor
May 28, 2005 at 7:57 pm

No idea at all I’m afraid, the fact it’s across three systems is very odd.

Steve Connor
Cardinal HD

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