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Spinning Beach Ball
I have just installed a second hard drive and whenever I run a sequence I get an obligatory 30 second wait with beach ball before it runs the timeline.
This also happens intermittently while the sequence is playing. It will be playing, stop for 30-60 seconds with the ball spinning, and then carry on.
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More info is needed!
Connection of the drive?
Format of the drive? -
Ok, I got this info from the Disk utility
File system: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus : ATA
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
Device Tree: sata/k2-sata@1/@0:3
I’m not that techy about hard drives. Any help appreciated.
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It sounds like your HD might be going to sleep. Go into System Preferences, then Energy Saver. At the bottom, you should see a check box called “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible”. This is on by default, check it off.
Another thing you might want to look at, is the speed of the hard drive. 7200 rpm is a good speed for video editing. If your working with HD try to get a 10000rpm.
Hope this helps!!
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Apple Developer
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That seems to have fixed it. Thanks.
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That’s no beach ball. It’s the Wheel of Death.
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Actually that’s the loop cursor used when the active process is in a loop(When nothing else can be done in the application), similar to Apple’s old Clock cursor. The spinning beach ball was to replace the Clock in OS X, it came from NeXTStep, the OS that evolved into OS X.
Video Specialist
Apple Developer
Owner of GranitWorks
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