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my mac did a pc thing
I am now celebrating my second year as a mac convertee and just had a PC moment. I work hard at it every day using my octo core mac and FCP and churn out a lot of HD stuff but yesterday after completing another half hour episode of a series we make I went to the beginning of the timeline to do a final pass check and tweek before I sent it on to the producers for revisions.
But all of a sudden, when playing the timeline it would occasionally freeze then skip (drop framing playback) so I saved, closed FCP and reopened everything and it was still occuring. I thought “gee, where have I seen this before; not for a long time…. hey! but that was back in the good ole PC days.. now… what was my fix for that?” (sorry I always like to quote myself, especially when its a one man conversation…)So when this use to occur on the PC, I would just restart the ‘puter and away I went. NOW I find the same fix works for the mac; I must have totally overwhelmed the poor baby but now its back to its faultless self; onward and upward I say!
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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[Baz Leffler] “when playing the timeline it would occasionally freeze then skip (drop framing playback) so I saved, closed FCP and reopened everything and it was still occuring”
I’ve had this happen to me as-well. For me it happens only after I have been running for a couple hours, and only when running media run through my e-Sata card and I’ve been running a few different apps simultaneously (ie: FCP, Safari, Fetch, Motion, so on..)
Likewise for yourself, only a re-boot cures the problem.
Is your media coming in through an e-Sata or fiber card?
I have an internal media drive as well as my e-Sata raids, and I’ve never had this issue when working from the internal drive, only the e-Sata card, wether it be the RAID, or single e-sata drive.
Colin McQuillan
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[Colin McQuillan] “Is your media coming in through an e-Sata or fiber card?”
Yes I have a Rocketraid 2322 connected to an external Mini-sas 8 TB raid array running raid 5. So maybe that is going to sleep a little bit do you think?
Baz
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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Repair permissions, and run DiskWarrior.
Cheers
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Again with Alexander.
Baz, get your self Diskwarrior TechTools or Driver Wizar.
You will change your signature;
What would I do without DiskWarrior or the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
Cheers,
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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Funny thing is… I HAVE DISK WARRIOR!!!
What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!
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[Baz Leffler] “But all of a sudden, when playing the timeline it would occasionally freeze then skip”
There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs, sync-slippage, or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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[Baz Leffler] “So maybe that is going to sleep a little bit do you think? “
Could be. I’m running the g=tech card that ships with the G-Speed eS. My system is set to never sleep though.
Colin McQuillan
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[Alexander Kallas] “Repair permissions, and run DiskWarrior.”
Have done both when I first noticed the trouble. Neither have worked on my system.
Once I wrap my current projects I plan on rebuilding my system from the ground up. Hopefully that will wrench out the gremlins.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C. -
[Thax Clave] “You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP”
This is something I always do before laying to tape. Unfortunately, with this particular stuttering media issue, it doesn’t help.
My best guess is the trouble lies with the raid card, or how the system is communicating with the card, as I’ve never had this issue pop up when working from my internal media drive, just my RAIDs and external e-Sata drives.
Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.
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