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Playback interuptions
we recently purchased final cut pro 7. Our company does a lot of closed captioning (half and 1hr). We capture the program or edit it from top to bottom, and then we playback from the timeline for the closed captioning process. Over the last few weeks, we have had a series of playback interuptions during closed caption. (Final Cut has quit unexpectantly, would you like to reopen) Of course this is costing us time and money.
Any suggestions?
Reggie Cofer
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3 Replies
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We need more information in order to help you Reggie.
What specific type of video are you editing? Codec? Frame rate? Pixel dimensions?
What type of media hard drive configuration are you using?
Have you updated everything using Apple>>Software Update?
In the meantime, trash preferences, and fix permissions using the Apple Disk Utility and see if that helps.
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And also how did you update your Final Cut?
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I really hope someone will post an answer that fixes this for you completely, but for me its the holy grail of FCP.
Stop crashing randomly!Things to check:
what version of FCP are you running 7.03?
Quicktime version?
os x?
have you run any automatic update since the crashes appeared? Leopard had a quicktime update a few weeks back didn’t it? or was it snow leopard?How are your hard drives and IO device, I put the blame on my random crashes on these two. Especially with HD footage.
Are your harddrives too full, can you run a speed test, blackmagic & aja have one.
If the average speed is ok but every so often you get a big dip in speed occurring this could cause dropped frames and crashes … mostly dropped frames for me.
This is why good hardware raid boxes cost what they cost, are worth it and are next on my to-purchase list.IO device, what are you using and have you updated drivers recently?
Oh and is it in any way regular, can you test the same sequence playout without the closed captioning to see if it is the closed captioning causing the problems?
Also some would call it a last resort but do you have a carbon copy cloner (ccc) backup of you system drive that you could plug in or restore from?
Some times I find that a system that has been working perfectly will develop gremlins and a complete format and os x and fcp reinstall works to oust problems (thats why you make a ccc backup of a freshly installed system to restore from instead of sitting through the reinstall every time).
It is also a good idea to ccc your current setup in case it doesn’t fix the problem.
All this takes time but if it fixes random problems that cost you time and money and errors in front of clients it can be worth staying in late/setting going overnight in my experience.Good luck
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