Video and audio playback corruption – Quicktime or hardware issue?

[Sean Oneil]

[Will Salley] “I tried a different computer – just switched out the HD – same results.”

By using your original system disk, you can’t eliminate the OS and other software as the problem. Take your orignal computer out of the equation 100%. Just copy the media to another FCP machine. If the problem still occurs then the media is probably corrupted. Bad RAM, overheating, or a bad HD could be causing this during the capture process.

[Will Salley]

[Sean ONeil] “By using your original system disk, you can’t eliminate the OS and other software as the problem. Take your orignal computer out of the equation 100%. Just copy the media to another FCP machine.”

I did just that. The problem of DVDSP freezes and video corruption still existed.

HOWEVER-I also re-installed the OS and zero-formatted the HD but without applying the Security Update 2006-007 and 008 and Security Update 2007-001.

No corruption or freezes as of now. I’m into about 14 hours of testing with this configuration.

[Sean Oneil]

[Will Salley] “I did just that. The problem of DVDSP freezes and video corruption still existed.

HOWEVER-I also re-installed the OS and zero-formatted the HD but without applying the Security Update 2006-007 and 008 and Security Update 2007-001.

No corruption or freezes as of now. I’m into about 14 hours of testing with this configuration.”

Sounds like you fixed it. Great. You might want to replace your system disk. Not sure what screwed up your OS, but it was something.