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strange error message during capture
I wonder if anyone knows why FCP 6 is continuing to give me an incorrect error message. I am capturing to an external hard drive with over 200GB of free space. I am using the DV/DVCPRO setup, and capturing SD footage from a Sony GV-D900 deck (MiniDV).
After capturing uniform lengths of footage…9:25:17 (2GB), capture terminates with a message that “Capture has been ended due to lac.k of disk space.” I don’t know whether this is a hardware or a software or a setup issue.
I’m new to working in FCP and have not been able to find any information about this in the FCP forums or knowledgebase at Apple.
Don Seils
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3 Replies
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Ehm….Have you set a secondary hard drive to take over the captured media ? What is you external hard drive brand ?
Try to setup your internal hard drive as second hard drive and see what it does.
If the problem isn’t here anymore, and the footage keeps capturing on you internal hard drive it must be a communication problem between FCP and you external hd, or even your system and the hd.
So in that case in the desctop, right click on the externat hard drive -> “get info” and see what how meny free space you have. It’s just to see if you system is evaluating correctly.
If after doing the first thing the problem still persists, it is a FCP bug ant that….I don’t know.
motion images + storytelling = ?
-> FILMMAKING !
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Could be a file size limitation with a PC formatted drive….make sure your drive is formatted for Mac…(Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility/Format Your Drive) good luck!
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Bingo!!
The drive was Fat32 formatted for Mac/Windows compatibility. Cleared off unneeded fiels and reformatted the drive to OSX Extended and now all is well.
Don Seils
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