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Sticky Timeline
I am a teacher and use fcp in my classroom. I am having a problem with a G5 sticking on the timeline. As it comes to a transition or another cut it sticks or it freezes on a frame and does not update the canvas. We recently put 2 gigs of ram in the machine to help preformance. Please help me correct this annoying issue.
Thanks!!!!!!!
Patrick Morrow -
5 Replies
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This is a more likely throughput issue than a RAM issue. Are you capturing to a designated media drive rather than your system hard drive?
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I am capturing to the system drive, it is all I have.
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That’s the problem Patrick. FCP is getting enough throughput off of the main drive to play one layer of video, but placing a transition on the timeline requires additional throughput which your hard drive cannot sustain. Get yourself an inexpensive firewire drive and make certain to capture all your media to that drive from now on. You’ll find that performance will go up dramatically, and you’ll have more real time performance, and no more sticky transitons.
DRW
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I am curious why all other 9 systems I have do not have this symptom at all. Please advise.
Thanks!!!
Patrick -
This might be the Dupe Detection issue that comes around every month or so.
Turn off dupe detection in your sequence settings options, and for every sequence that is in your open project. Even if that sequence is not open, FCP still searches for duped frames. Have a search back on the forum for sluggish FCP
best wishes
nick
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