Stange behavior when playing long timeline

[Chris Poisson]

Mike,

This sounds like it’s dropping frames, in all likelyhood, you can solve it by selecting all tracks and go to Sequence> Render All> mixdown.

[Mike Hennessey]

Did you do a audio mixdown? If not try it. Sequence – render only – mixdown. Good luck

[Michael Lynch]

I’ll give it a shot. Thanks for all the help. This forum is invaluable!

-Mike

G5 – 2GIG DUAL – 2GIG RAM
FCP; AE; PS; DSP

[Jason Mccaffrey]

If mixing down doesn’t work, make sure that you have all of your media on one drive that is seperate from the drive your operating system is on. Also, save your project with a new number. Sometimes all it takes is a new project file. Finally, as a workaround, try exporting the project as a self contained qt movie, reimporting it to FCP and into a new timeline, and recording from that. If these suggestions don’t work, do a search on this forum for dropped frames and you will find a number of posts where people way more experienced than I gave me the same advice I just recycled to you, and possibly some more advice that I am forgetting.

Good luck. I know how frustrating it is to finish a project and not be able to get it out of your machine.

Jason