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Shiny New System, Steppy Playback?
Happy Halloween.
My shiny new system is:
FCP 7.01 on a MacPro 2x 2.93 GHz Quad Intel Xeon
OS 10.6.1 Quicktime v10.0
16GB 1066 MHz DDR3
ATI Radeon HD 4870
Cinema HD 30″ Display
650GB Internal
2x G-Raid 1.5TB via FW800
2x G-Raid 1TB via FW800Project shot and edited on DVCPROHD 720 23.98, mostly cut on MBPRO until now, the final days of preparing the master timeline for the retail DVD.
Noticing steppy playback on the canvas at 100% size (on my 30″ monitor). Even at 50% and 25% size.
Never saw steppy playback before with the same edit, clips and drive on the MBPRO screen at 50% and 25% size, or even an iMac which hosted the edit for a couple of weeks. The media drive is only 2/3 full.
Otherwise all is great with wonderful fast renders and happy operation.
Now with this grown-up machine and lots of slots I should be getting a Matrox or other card to watch playback on a separate display– and I will in short order– but anyway:
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Check your RT settings, maybe it’s set to dynamic framerate?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Thanks for response!
It is set to Safe RT, full frame rate, dynamic quality.
Tried switching to dynamic frame rate just now, same issue. Switched back.
Then tried switching to high quality, same issue. -
Well, since there is no logical explanation, this would be a good time to trash prefs, fix permissions, and run Disk Warrior. Of course, I know you’ll probably tell me that your copy of DW isn’t the the latest version that works under Snow Leopard, so do the other things and report back.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Right on all counts. WIll report back. Just remembered I hadn’t trashed Prefs since updating to 7.0.1.
Meanwhile, would a playback card such as a Matrox assume the processing burden of playback from the Mac? What I mean is, should that kind of solution provide for “smooth” playback as well as more accurate image quality/color?
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[William Carr] “would a playback card such as a Matrox assume the processing burden of playback from the Mac?”
No. An MXO will show a close approximation of true color, making a computer monitor more closely emulate at broadcast video monitor or TV. A video I/O card, such as Kona LHi, Blackmagic, or MXO 2, will output a true video signal to broadcast monitor or TV, insuring that what you see is a true representation of the video signal, which no computer monitor can really do.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I trashed prefs and repaired permissions and upon returning to the project I found it to play back perfectly normally. It was the basic and fundamental maintenance step skipped that tripped me up and in the heat of urgency mystified me.
Let this be a lesson to me and all other pretenders to the editor’s seat.
Thank you, DRW!
And thank you by the way for telling me back in the Spring to take the plunge for a shiny new system in the first place, and never look back.
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There’s nothing like the sweet sound of success. Happy I was able to fix you up. Now I feel a lot better, because I’ve been struggling mist of the day with a 750gb hard drive that’s behaving intermitantly, giving me signs of life every time I get ready to write it off as NG. If it would make up it’s mind I could just move on, but it’s stuck in the netherworld between life and death, thus making me crazy.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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William,
You haven’t take note of what David had suggested you: “Run DiskWarrior”.[David Roth Weiss] “a 750gb hard drive that’s behaving intermitantly, giving me signs of life every time I get ready to write it off as NG”
David, you are “The King of the Backup”, so backup and reformat before the HD totally die.
Rafael -
[Rafael Amador] “David, you are “The King of the Backup”, so backup and reformat before the HD totally die. “
Believe it or not, it’s almost a brand new hard drive that I was going to use as a backup drive. I’m RMAing it to Hitachi Monday. It’s actually the first Hitachi drive I’ve ever had a problem with other than one that came DOA from the factory.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Probably is the Power Source no the HD.
That’s the HD’s killer.
I use to have a lot of problems with the LaCie for mistakenly setting the wrong Power source.
I had four HD with his sources. All looking the same, but all were different.
I’ve been dealing with really sub-standard enclosures.
When the red LED started to blink on mounting..chungo (south-spanish popular expression: you what its means).
The problem is that you may end up screwing the HD’s head or surface.
Close the HD and change the enclosure as soon as you can.
Rafael
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