Craig Thomas quinlan
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Is the computer name and local hostname populated in the Sharing section of apple prefs? Even if no services are enabled, this needs to be populated.
Try to open the Qmaster prefs pane, and hover your mouse over ‘Start Sharing’ while pressing the Option key – the button changes to Reset services. Click that, reboot. It may repopulate the fields with your cluster.
If that doesn’t work, trash all FCP studio preferences. Try again.
In all likelihood you probably need a fresh compressor install (possibly a studio reinstall for auxiliary files). I’ve seen this exact problem a couple of times, and the only real solution is to reinstall. Look at this doc to see how to do it properly : https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1888?viewlocale=en_US
If you need to remove FCP and reinstall it, download FCS remover. Google it, it’s free. Make sure to run all the updates when you’re done.
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This is a permissions issue. Make sure you have r/w access to the location you had your autosave vault set for.
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Yes. Buy an external hard drive. They cost nothing these days. Since you’re editing without storage right now, it sounds like you’re editing low-bandwidth material, but you should always, always put your media and render files in a different location than your internal drive with your OS, and you should never let a drive get past 85% capacity.
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There are at least a dozen things that could be causing your issues. The obvious one: is this Western Digital your internal sata drive running your OS? If so, there’s part of your problem. Never run media from the same drive as your OS. Regardless of whether or not it’s your internal OS drive or an external firewire drive, it’s almost completely full, which reduces throughput drastically and causes dropped frames. Copy all of your media to your 2 TB drive and work from that.
Second, what format are you cutting on? If you’re trying to cut several streams at anything higher than DVCPROHD, firewire drives will drop frames all over the place. You’ve got slightly more headroom with internal sata drives. Make sure your storage can handle the bandwidth of your source material.
Definitely add more RAM to your machine if you want to do serious editing. 1GB is not nearly enough.
Lastly, try separating your cache files and your media files. Send thumbnail cache, waveform cache and autosave vault to a separate drive from your media. This alleviates causing your drives to simultaneously deal with hundreds of tiny file transactions (cache files) and large sequential transactions (video), which can lower overall throughput and cause dropped frames.
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Without knowing the source of this footage it’s hard to say, but while FCP will technically support mixing your frame rates, stick to the one that you’ll finish on. Don’t just drop your 29.97 footage onto a 23.98 timeline mixed with other 23.98 material and expect it to look right. If you didn’t shoot your 29.97 with pulldown, you might want to edit at 29.97….if you shot it with pulldown, you have several options for pulldown removal (cinema tools, compressor reverse telecine). Depends on what you need to deliver at.