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Sequence playback problems
I’m getting that dread drop-frame error message every time I try to play through the sequence. I’ve tried everything: trashing preferences, doing an audio mixdown, fiddling with settings (turned off appletalk, external video, etc.); everything I could find to try in FCP help or in searching these forums I’ve tried.
Any new ideas?
My stats: running FCP 3.0.2 on a dual 1GHz PowerPC G4, with OS X 10.2.8.
The media is on a LaCie drive. I’m working on a copy of a project that another editor has been working on with no problems. We loaded FCP on to my computer specifically so I could help with this project (I’m generally an avid person).
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
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4 Replies
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I always suspect drives first, especially if they are FireWire drives (they are not approved by Apple). Don’t you have a 2nd separate SATA drive you can move the media to?
If not, try exporting a self-contained QT, then reimport it. Lay it onto a new sequence, do an audio mixdown (set to High Quality) and output.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Firewire drives not approved by Apple? This is news to me.
I’m beginning to suspect the drive is the source of the problem. No SATA drives here, but I’m going to try moving the media for the small chunk I’m working on either to my hard drive or my own lacie drive (which hasn’t been kicked around quite so much as my co-editor’s). We’ll see what happens.
Thanks for your input.
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Slower drives, corrupted drives, full drives, daisy-chained FireWire drives, no 911 Oxford chip in FireWire drives, slower camcorder FW port connected to higher speed FireWire drive are all perils of using portable FireWire drives. Internal drives that are not too full and are re-initialized between each major project have much higher rates of success–and that’s what you want. If you are very careful witth the right FireWire drive, you can usually output safely. But all the planets have to be aligned. 😉
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
fcpworld.com -
I copied the media I needed to my own, less heavily used, lacie drive and have had no problems. Putting an internal media drive on my shopping list…
Thanks.
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