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raid running very badly in FCP
Since we upgraded to suite 2. WHen I open a project that was saved on our serial ata raid in FCP. I get the lollipop of death. I don’t get this at all? THe SATA should be lightning fast as before. Obviously there have been some changes to my settings? I’ve deleted my FCP perferences. ANy suggestions?
Is that the color red you want to use?
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Could be some corruption in the media or something else on the array that FCP is not liking.
Launch the project with the Raid turned off.
Close all the sequences that are open.
Save the Project and Quit FCP.
Turn the Raid on.
Re-Launch FCP and reconnect the media.
If this fails, you have at least one piece of media FCP is not liking.
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Thanks, I’ll give that a try. Is it safe to run “erase empty areas” out of disk utility. I’ve never heard anyone mention doing this. I thought it might be like running defrag.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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I take it you have reset your scratch disk?
Peter
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Well, I think that scratch disk is still the same as before. It one of the firewire drives.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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Shouldn’t it be set to your RAID? 🙂
Peter
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I thought the scratch disk should be seperate from the drive you edit? Maybe I’ have that wrong.
Is that the color red you want to use?
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The scratch disk is where you store all your digitised media you edit with.
The boot disk is the drive that your machine will look at first and load the OS from.
Mixing of the two is not recommended.Peter
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[hdfilmmaker] “I thought the scratch disk should be seperate from the drive you edit? Maybe I’ have that wrong.”
You should be using only one Scratch Disk for all of your media. Do not separate your media onto separate drives, this will definitely cause you issues.
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HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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Ok, I double checked and yes I do use the raid for my scratch. My system has the OS and Apps. When I shut off the Raid and opened up FCP, I could not open the sequences cause they are on the Raid. I turned the Raid on and opened a timeline from a :30sec commercial. It says it will take 5 minutes to render. When its finished I’ll see if it plays without giving me the finger of death(lollipop).
Is that the color red you want to use?
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[hdfilmmaker] “When I shut off the Raid and opened up FCP, I could not open the sequences cause they are on the Raid. I”
What do you mean you can’t open the sequences because they are on the RAID? You should be able to open them up just fine, they will simply have all the media offline. I told you to open the project up this way to ensure that FCP did not try to re-link to a damaged media file or render in a timeline.
[hdfilmmaker] “I turned the Raid on and opened a timeline from a :30sec commercial. It says it will take 5 minutes to render. When its finished I’ll see if it plays without giving me the finger of death(lollipop).”
Is this one from that same project that was not opening before?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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