XDCAM HD Crashing FCP

Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

XDCAM HD Crashing FCP

Posted by Scott Sniffen on June 18, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Anyone have issues working with XDCAM-HD material and crashing FCP? Edits ok but when effects and filters are rendered, the system locks and I have to do a “force quit”. It’s intermittent but more and more locking occurs as the edit becomes more complex. Seems fine with XDCAM-SD DVCAM material.

Scott Sniffen

Don Greening replied 17 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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Mark Maness
June 18, 2008 at 7:52 pm

We need software versions to help you better.

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Scott Sniffen
June 18, 2008 at 8:23 pm

FCP 6.0.2

XDCAM Transfer Utility: 2.5.1
This utility has been crashing/locking as well. Again seems only with HD stuff. I know there are a couple of different versions of this utility. I have the one that is designated for FCP, I think. Maybe clarify. Sony has a few there on the site. I use the camera to import.

Thanks,
Scott
Mark Maness
June 18, 2008 at 9:02 pm

Here’s what I would do…

Clone your system drive with Carbon Copy Cloner, update FCP to 6.03 (it has more XDCAM support inside for the new 422 MPEG), and download the newest version of the Sony Transfer Software – version 2.70.

I haven’t seen anything like this since running these updates – BUT – only do this AFTER you clone your system drive. Its much easier to copy your drive back than to reinstall everything.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey
Scott Sniffen
June 18, 2008 at 9:49 pm

Understand, I’m not the best MAC guy in the world. What is the cloning step doing and what do I do with the clone after updating the software?

Scott
Don Greening
June 19, 2008 at 4:28 am

[Scott Sniffen] “What is the cloning step doing”

cloning is making an exact duplicate of your startup drive that is bootable, meaning that if after you’ve updated all your software on your REAL startup drive and things don’t work out you can always start up using the cloned drive and keep working like nothing ever happened.

[Scott Sniffen] “what do I do with the clone after updating the software? “

You don’t do anything except store the drive on a shelf in case you need to start up your Mac with it. The minimum requirements for an external startup hard drive is firewire 400. A USB drive won’t work.

Here are two popular cloning applications:

– Carbon Copy Cloner
– Super Duper

Both have freeware versions that will do what you want, which is to clone your startup drive.

– Don

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