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spinning and spinning…
Hi I have FCP HD 4.5 with my dual 1.8 G5. Latest system upgrade. I have 4 tracks of video, I’ve shot with PAL DV. Some functions are very slow giving a spinning rainbow ball. It occurs when I do those:
-moving the footage to another track
-paste attributes from one clip to another.
-rare byt it happend, some clips have their speed changed, playing really fast.
This project was edited on another G5 dual 2.5ghz few months ago and the same problem was happening.is this a bug in Final Cut Pro?
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6 Replies
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did you try to trash your prefs?
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Yes, I did. still same problem.
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Has anyone else had the same problems? help!
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Rafael,
If you could tell us how long your timeline is, that might be a help in diagnosing your slowdown problem. FCP doesn’t like really, really long timelines and will slow down considerably because it has to find everything scattered over your media drives each time it refreshes/updates after a change.
You can try mixing down your audio tracks. This will consolidate them into a L & R stereo file that’s invisible but faster for the computer to access and play. If you make any audio changes after you use the mixdown command the file is automatically deleted and you’ll have to do it again. Go to the sequence menu/render only/mixdown.
If your media drives are getting full it takes longer to for FCP to access your timeline stuff and that may contribute to the slowdown. Make sure you’re using the program “DiskWarrior” to keep the directories on your drives in top shape.
If all this fails to speed things up you may have a corrupt project file that was copied over from the computer that did the initial editing. Start a new project filename and copy the timeline contents over to it and see if that’s the problem. It may not help but I’m just throwing out ideas at the moment.
I’ll be watching this thread for any response from you.
– Don
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thank you for writing back. My timeline is about 5 minutes long. No sound. It is a simple edit, with 2 trackes. Clips are from a full digitized tape about 50-60 minutes, depending on which clip. What’s surprising is that only few functions create those troubles.
Such as moving the clip from one track to another; to paste attributes from one clip to another; to move clips in the timeline; and few others.
I think you are right, something must be corrupted in the file. But even if I copy the content and paste to another new edit, the troubles remain.
By the way I never used Disk Warrior, I thought defragmenting was not a commun issue anymore.
I am suspecting some timecode issue while digitizing. I remember that the first editor got some troubles with one or two tapes.
My hope is to wait Final Cut Pro 5 and upgrade, maybe it would help. -
Disk Warrior is not a defrag program but it is a program that rebuilds corrupt hard drive directories. You are correct that defragging a hard drive isn’t an issue nowadays with the new operating systems like OS X. However directories, especially on media drives, get corrupted over time because so many files are being written to and deleted from them during the making of a project. Disk Warrior will examine the existing directory and will build a completely new one instead of trying to fix the old directory like other programs. It’s a ‘must have’ program for video editors.
If possible you might want to see if your slow down is caused by a corrupt render file. I don’t know if you have access to the original media or not but you could try deleting the render files and have FCP build new ones. Or you could try recapturing the original media. Within FCP you could make the media ‘offline’, delete the original raw media clips and do a batch capture again. That will certainly tell you if there were timecode issues with the original clips. If that’s the case you might be able to use the “Capture Now” command for each of the clips you want to be online.
– Don
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