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Video playback stutter
I am working on a project with a decent amount of media, not huge, and lots and lots of cuts – many promos and lots of motion effects. The larger this project gets, the more frequently the video playback stutters, stops, and delays. Can anyone reccomend a disk optimizer or defragmenter or is there something else that could be causing this problem. Thanks.
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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, sync-slippage, 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.
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Thax, you are the man! Best Cow tip ever. So far, no problems. thanks.
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