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what does stuttering print to tape video look like?
I’ve been having problems getting a long timeline to print out for preview purposes so I’ve turned off “abort PTT” and haven’t noticed anything wrong.
Does it generally just hold a frame or two until it catches it’s breath or when things to bad does video freeze for like a second or more?
We’re on an Apple RAID and we havent’ had probs before just with these longer timelines.
– R
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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 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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That helped prevent most of the stops, thank you!
The drives are kinda full, that may be it. Just wondering what to expect if I turn off the “abort PTT” option. Will know tonight I think! 🙂
– R
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Well, it looks REALLY bad!!! 🙁
Not just a frame dropped but almost a full second of playing catch up, and most times it aborts the PTT anyway.
Freeing up HD space and/or ejecting network drives helped get me through it.
Mixing down audio seemed to help overall too.
– R
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