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playback stutter in FCP
Hi,
I recently shot a project at 720p30p. It was a Christmas party with a lot of games and high energy. I captured and transferred to my hard drive, which has plenty of space on it (151GB after transfer). The computer is MAC with OSX 10, 2.66 GHZ Core 2 and 4 GB memory.
When I try to look at the footage, the clips which are flashier (more movement, noise) stutter and freeze, while the clips with less flash play through all the way. I don’t know what the problem could be. Is it related to storing it on the hard drive, or could it be a RAM issue? We’ve never had a problem like this before with the computer, but also our video is usually stored on externals.
Any ideas?
Thanks,Liam
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4 Replies
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You’ve already got it figured out… The only difference in this and other projects is where you have the media stored. That would do it.
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I would also bet that your footage is in a compressed codec that your computer is having trouble decoding on the fly.
Since it would be better to have your footage on an external drive, perhaps it would be a great opportunity for you to run your footage through Compressor, converting it to ProRes (NOT ProRes HQ) and set your destination to an external drive.
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How is your media drive connected?
Hindsight is always 1080p
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That seems to have been it. I bought a new external and hooked it up, then ran from the external and ‘backed up’ to the hard drive. Appears to be working.
Thanks for the tips.
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