Alex m. White
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Noa,
You are certainly not the only one with this issue. I am having the almost EXACT same problem. I am editing 720 × 480 SD DV footage with 48khz AIFF files, and about half way into my project I started getting the ‘Dropped Frames’ error followed by horrible PZZZP audio errors and then absolutely no sound was able to be played back: through the internal MacBook Pro speakers, my studio headphones, audio files inside OR outside FCP. I have to restart my entire system to get an audio playing back through any application/output.
I also cannot find my audio render or autosave files anywhere, and I’ve been setting scratch disks the same way since FCP 4 in ’05 through FCP 6 this month.
Here are my specs:
MacBook Pro, OS X v.10.6.2
3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Internal Drive: 500GB SATA @ 7200 rpm (440GB Available)
External Drive: 120GB LaCie Rugged connected with FW 800 (89GB Available)
Final Cut Studio 3/Final Cut Pro 7.0.1It just doesn’t seem like it should be a hardware issue. I’ve also:
- Reduced the playback video quality and frame rate in the RT pop-up menu
- Played my sequence using the Unlimited RT mode instead of the Safe RT mode.
- Chosen Play Base Layer Only from the RT pop-up menu.
Mind you, I have no other applications/processes running, only have one project open with one sequence open. I thought it must be user error or I was going crazy, but there must be something else. Noa, have you had luck with anything? I’ve tried both John Fishback’s and Alan Langdon’s suggestions with no success.
My five year old PowerBook G4 with Tiger and FCP 6.0.4 worked immeasurably better than this brand new MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard and FCP 7.0.1; that seems very counter-intuitive and wrong to me. Does anyone have any other suggestions or advice on what to try?
Thank you for your time,
Alex