What just happened?

[Shane Ross]

Somethings up…because I have the MXO2 non-max and haven’t gotten the Panic for over a year now.
ON that system.

Shane

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Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def

[Baz Leffler]

[Michael Harrington] “the video which had been playing just fine all day began to stutter during playback.”

This is the first sign of impending trouble. Its an indication of memory getting low (due to memory leaks). I get it often on big FCP projects and occurs more often if I have a PDF open (yeah Adobe software).

The only solution to the ‘studdering’ is a complete system restart as you noted. But if you persist with it your system will (and did in your case) CRASH!!

So studdering playback = “NEAR KERNEL PANIC”
…. persist with it = “FAR KERNEL PANIC”

(please read the last part carefully and DON’T explain it to the children!)

Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[Michael Harrington]

Thanks everyone for chiming in on my recent problem, everything is under control, for now.

I must say I like this site much better than that other one where they don’t actually help as much as they ask endless questions and then make statements like “why did you do that” or my favorite “why would you ever use that much storage”.

I must also say it’s too funny looking at the picture of who’s offering advice; Shane with his suspicious eye, Baz looking like he might of a past due rocker, Walter and his babe, Rafael and baby and Neil with his “Oh My” expression. Look at these to see if you agree, whatever your take is it will certainly be insight into your personality.

To be fair about all of this I’ve posted my photo, what can I say my work gets a little messy sometimes.

Thanks again.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

FYI, my second Keranl Panic in the past week. I had just turned on the system and began to view clips when it hit. As mentioned earlier the system has been running very good with lots of HDV at ProRes and the only new addition to computer and project is the new Matrox MXO2MAX. I just checked the MXO2 software version and web site and all is up to date.

Based on advice recieved last week I’ve run disk utility, verify and repair permissions of which listed issues, anything else I should be doing to avoid Kearnel Panic?

Does it make since to uninstall and reinstall Matrox Software?

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Bassel – matrox video products group]

Hi Michael,

What FCP and Mac OS X versions are you running?

Regards,

[Michael Harrington]

Mac OS X ver 10.5.8
FCP 6.0.6

I’ve also had problems with distorted audio on the RCA out to my Mackie 1402, use this for monitoring only. Having problems with a stuttered playback, SDI out to FSI 17″ Monitor SDI In. This happens often when I playback/stop/playback quickly and is corrected when I stop, wait a second or two and playback again. My time line is ProRes working with Sony HDV. Any thoughts about this.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Bassel – matrox video products group]

Thanks for the info.

Did turning off “Audio Scrubbing” in the View menu help?

Also, can you make sure your playback settings are properly set:

In Final Cut Pro choose View > Video Playback.
Select the Matrox MXO2 setting that matches your project’s sequence setting.

Choose View > Audio Playback, and select Matrox MXO2 Audio Output.

– Note If Audio Follows Video is enabled in the Audio Playback menu,

Matrox MXO2 Audio Output will be automatically enabled once you’ve selected an MXO2 setting for video playback.

Thanks,
Bassel

[Michael Harrington]

On the road this week and will double check those settings when I return to the office.

Thank you.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.

[Michael Harrington]

I’ve returned from my road trip and checking the settings you asked about.

Did turning off “Audio Scrubbing” in the View menu help?’>Did turning off “Audio Scrubbing” in the View menu help?
I just turned off Audio Scrubbing, although I like to use audio scrubbing especially when editing dialog.

In Final Cut Pro choose View > Video Playback.
Select the Matrox MXO2 setting that matches your project’s sequence setting.

This is my current setting;
Clips: 1440×1080, 29.97fps, aspect ratio HD (1440×1080) (16:9)
Compressor: Apple ProRes 422

Sequence: 1440 x 1080 HD (1440×1080) (16:9), 29.97
Compressor: Apple ProRes

I believe these settings to be correct and will see if turning off “Audio Scrubbing” helps, do we expect that to also correct the jittery video problem I described.

Michael Harrington
Mac Pro, Dual Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz, 12 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4870, 30-inch Cine Display, 4TB internal, 1.25TB Esata, Numerous FW 800 external drives, MX02Max, FSI 17″ Broadcast Monitor, Mackie 1402 & Event 20/20 monitors.