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Unstable System
Our system has become a bit unstable over the last couple of weeks and I’m wondering if any of you have had the same problems. More importantly how to fix it! We’re seeing the “spinning beach ball of death” a lot and having to cycle the power – can’t event do a force quit out of FCP. We’re running FCP 5.0.4 on a G5 with OSX 10.4.4, dual 2.5’s and 4 gig of ram. Our footage is all DV and coming off a DV Box 1TB FW800 drive.
The project is a half hour weekly show with a fair amount of layering but nothing huge (not more than six video tracks – mostly a couple of video and 4 audio tracks).
We use a lot of nested sequences when we do these shows. We’ll build a sequence for a feature, that drag that sequence into the sequence for the segment it lives in, then drag the five segment sequences into he final show sequence. This way any change ripples down into the final show, and we instabtly know what are total show time is. We’ve never had a problem with that part of the workflow.
I’ve trashed prefs, run Mac Janitor, and verified permissions.
In another equipment area, any idea why Promax put their big (1TB and larger) Firemax firewire 800 drives on engineering hold?
Editor Bob
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The Spinning Beach Ball of Death at The X Lab site has some possibilities.
I have also read where Microsoft Office products use to try and phone home for up to two minutes when closed. I know that’s not your issue, but I thought I would throw out a sidebar.
On an old 1.42Ghz DP G4 I had a system drive (S.M.A.R.T. technology) that was going bad–turning into D.U.M.B. technology. I think it took 2 months to die. Of course, in the mean time I reloaded the system and software about 2 or 3 times. There is a S.M.A.R.T. drive diagnostic somewhere that I used. Maybe it was in the Disk Utility–I just can’t remember at the moment. I also used and kept handy Disk Warrior and TechTools Pro. Micromat has a neat little firewire thumbdrive call Techtool Prot
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