David Smith
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You could just tell Spotlight to ignore those drives. I think that would give you the same result without having to reformat the drives.
Open the Spotlight pane from System Preferences. Choose the Privacy tab and add the external drives to the Privacy list.
HTH,
David
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Paul,
Thanks for posting the solution to your problem! Nine months later I had a related problem and was able to fix it after searching the Cow and finding this thread. I wanted to post this because my problem is related to offline hot-swappable drives that I used for a separate project and I’m sure others work the same way. So here’s my workflow, the reason it’s a related problem will become obvious:
I bought a four bay, removable drive eSATA box with the idea of using different stripped arrays for different projects. Today I had to go back to work on an earlier project which is stored on an internal array inside my G5. Since I didn’t need any files on any of the disks used in the external box, I didn’t turn it on. When I tried to open the earlier project (by double clicking the project icon directly, so FCP was not looking for any newer projects or their media) I got the same dialog box you mentioned at the top of this thread.
I searched the FCP manual for “Missing Disks” to no avail, then searched the Cow. Thank you! Problem resolved.
To be very clear for anyone who comes across this problem: When you get that dreaded dialog box, choose the “Reset Scratch Disks” button, find the missing volume in the scratch disk list and hit the “Clear” button for that volume. Then, back in the Missing Disks dialogue you’ll now have a “continue” button.
Regards,
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[Creative Animal Jan] “reset deck, hit easy setup 1080i60 and try again”
That didn’t do it, though it was a good idea. Thanks.
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The online manual is pretty handy, but so is the written one. I’d certainly get Apple to get you the correct volumes, you’ve paid for them after all.
Also, I much prefer looking at the online manual in Adobe Reader instead of Apple’s Preview. The search capabilities are a lot easier. I find Preview pretty clunky over all.
David
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Rich,
I installed a three drive Swift Data bracket and four Hitachi 250 SATA II drives in a Dual 2.7. I ran Hardware Monitor for awhile before the addition and haven’t noticed any real changes in temperature since installing them.
Be sure to set your energy saver settings to “Never” and uncheck the “let drives sleep…. ” option there as well. The Sonnett card doesn’t like the machine to go to sleep on it’s own.
David
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Do you have black levels set correctly? How are you capturing the Beta video?
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FCP User’s Manual, Chapter 8 page 127 “Specifying Destination Tracks in the Timeline”
Also page 191: “Using Auto Select to Specify Tracks for Selections”
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What Tom suggested is really very easy so with only two camera angles I don’t know what great advantage “auto sync” would be. You could set in points on both clips to the same timecode frame, and then place them in the sequence on on top of the other.
As for splitting apart multiclips, you can collapse the multiclip after rough cutting the two clips (Modify menu). At that point each sub clip in the sequence shows up full frame in the viewer when you double click on it in the timeline. You can even “uncollapse” it later if you want to go back to seeing them together again. Once you get used to it the multiclip feature is really pretty handy.
It seems to me though that when cutting a two camera interview, I always end up moving stuff around timewise anyway. Getting rid of stumbles, changing the order of sentences, etc. So I’ve never bothered to worry too much about perfect sync between angles. One useful method is to build a multiclip in once sequence just for viewing and choosing angles, and then actually building the interview in another sequence using the original clips.
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You could just export the full frame and then use something like Digital Heaven’s DHBox to use just the map wherever in a sequence you needed it. Can’t beat the simplicity of that workflow, and it’s only $10.
David
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Don’t know why it should have occured, but did you try Modify>Uncollapse Multiclips?