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Connor Callaghan
December 4, 2015 at 12:50 am in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

I think the free space on my video disk (the external hard drive) is at less than 10% so I’ll try to clear that up and see if it makes a difference.

I’ll also try re-rendering the project.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Connor Callaghan
November 30, 2015 at 6:53 pm in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

It’s only one track, nothing different about that section versus the rest of the timeline. I’m only using one track with edits throughout and there aren’t even video filters or anything like that. The audio is also just a single track AIFF song.

My only thought is that my computer and external drive have basically reached the max project size that they can handle. This happened on another similar project where I had hours of source footage and was cutting a 30 minute documentary. It worked flawlessly up until I got into the final 5-10 minutes of the timeline. Then it started lagging and I basically had to export the first half of the timeline and drop it into a new sequence as a single video file so that I could edit the second half of the project without lag…

Thanks for your help with this.
Connor Callaghan
November 24, 2015 at 1:26 am in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

Yep, still lagging. That portion isn’t graphics heavy at all. Just cuts of raw footage.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you mean by “streams of video”? The sequence uses clips from probably 100 different raw source videos.
Connor Callaghan
November 17, 2015 at 11:56 pm in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

Got it, thank you!
Connor Callaghan
November 15, 2015 at 2:04 am in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

does that mean purchasing a new drive? what connection would you recommend? thunder bolt?

excuse my ignorance

thanks!
Connor Callaghan
November 12, 2015 at 3:52 pm in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

I also just tried switching my playback quality to LOW and setting the frame rate playback to HALF and that still didn’t help 🙁
Connor Callaghan
November 12, 2015 at 3:42 pm in reply to: FCP Laggy Playback

The project file itself is only 7.3mb.

The sequence settings were set to match the footage: 1920×1080 HDTV 1080i, 2997, Apple ProRes 422, 48khz, 16 bit.

I also just noticed that my scratch disks were set to my local drive, not the external drive. Does that make a difference if all of the media is stored on the FireWire drive?