-
Playback issues
Hi,
Hi,I am working off on a mac G5, FCP 5 with seven lacie drives daisy chained to each other. Recently Iadded an eight one and it was working fine untill yesterday when the latest drive refused to show up. I reformatted and in the process lost some basic rendered media files I guess. However while playing back any sequence in the timeline now causes the monitor to go blue and stuuter, sometimes the audio too dissapears. At times when the picture comes back there is now a delay/ dosent play back in sync. Its a big problem as I am unable to review what has been edited.
I have no idea what the causes of this problem could be as I m new to FCP. I havent added any new media for storage space to be altered. What are the probable reasons for this happeneing and how can I recitfy this.
Please help.
Thanks
-
2 Replies
-
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.
-
Thanks.
I will try it this week and hopefully it will work.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up