transferring final project

[Shane Ross]

160GB drive with 8 GB left….that is the issue. You need to have about 10% of your drive free to ensure taht you don’t drop frames. When the drive is too full it has difficulty playing back footage.

Might need to invest in another drive and move some of the media onto it…

[Old Gray mare]

Thanks for your reply. I have a 500GB lacie external drive but have been afraid to move media. I try it.

[Thaxter Clavemarlton]

In addition to (or because of) a full hard drive…

There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many audio and video “skipping”, “sticking” and “missing” problems.

You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.

NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.

First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:

Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.

You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.

It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.

NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.

[Lindsay]

Thanks so much! It’s the little things we all tend to miss. I just couldn’t figure out what was going on because the audio was nowhere near peaking when playing back in FCP. Thanks again!