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Weak FCS3 performance after installing new internal HDD
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Looks like I know how I’m spending my afternoon!
Thanks everyone.
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[Ryan Knight] “Looks like I know how I’m spending my afternoon!
“Don’t watch while cloning… It will never finish if you do. And, I assure you, a clone always takes longer than you imagine.
Also, always test the clone afterwards to make sure it does boot – 99% do, but that other 1% will mess you up big time, especially if the clone is your backup or your only working version, if for instance you’re going wipe a disk clean for repurposing or updating to new versions of the OS or FCP.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Hey guys,
Before starting the Cloning process, I decided to test my system and FCP running off a FW400 Lacie (my MacBook only supports USB 2.0 and FW400).
To repeat quickly, in the past, I was able to edit and color correct with FCS3 on this laptop, before the internal HDD upgrade, 1080p files in various formats, including ProRes and H264.
And now FCP won’t playback ProRes or H264 sequences (even at 1280×720!) without failing. BOTH from the boot drive and on my previously successful FW400 drive. Could it be a FCP problem or do you guys still think I did something wrong when upgrading and restoring the new internal HDD?
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I know I’m having a hard time remembering what the cluck is going on, this thread has way too many posts. There’s no way we can keep track of what’s different now Ryan, since you said you were having problems all along.
I told you before, if everything isn’t running perfectly you’ll need do a ground-up reinstall, because working off a clone just duplicates any problems on the original system drive.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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No, no trouble all along. Only after installing an upgraded HDD and restoring it via TimeMachine.
That drive was working fine; FCP, Color, REDCINE-X, Shake in HD/2K/4K, no problem what so ever!
But now the new one has problems in FCP.
I thought cloning doesn’t “bring” problems from an old drive over to the new one. Though there term cloning seems to indicate the opposite.
Perhaps I should format the new drive, complete reinstall of SL and my Pro Apps, and then manually copy over folders and files of projects and docs?
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You are now trying to run your system off an externally booted fw400 drive. this is not going to work very well/fast.
as I said in one of the the first posts, the best most efficient way to start over. Fresh OS, fresh Apps.
But at the very least, you should clone what was your working 120GB drive to your new 500GB drive and install the 500GB drive internally.
If that doesn’t work, then start with a fresh install. You can forget about time machine. Seriously.
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I am not booting from a FW400.
David recommended not cloning… ?
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[Ryan Knight] “I am not booting from a FW400.”
So what does this mean from a few posts ago? You are starting to go down the rabbit hole:
[Ryan Knight] “Before starting the Cloning process, I decided to test my system and FCP running off a FW400 Lacie (my MacBook only supports USB 2.0 and FW400).”
[Ryan Knight] “David recommended not cloning… ?”
He did? I am pretty sure he was one of the first ones to say “clone”.
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We’re all trying to tell you the same thing Ryan. If you go back in time, not using Time Machine, I told you about cloning, told you what apps to use, and told you not to do it unless your computer was working perfectly.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.comPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums. Formerly host of the Apple Final Cut Basics, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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Ok so I will do the following, because there were some issues with the OS on the original drive, that I seemingly fixed with a fresh install of SL before I TimeMachined it (which I will not do again):
I will not Clone (because of above – just in case).
Format the new 750GB internal HDD.
Fresh install of SL.
Fresh install of Pro Apps.
Manually copy files, doc, projects.
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