Debe
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How is the drive you are capturing to formatted?
Have you repaired permissions lately?
debe
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Of course, you’re right, Peter.
My post was tailored to the original posters use of external firewire drives.
I meant a single FW drive when I said external drive. Of course a SAN is a different animal altogether. For this poster’s issues, however, the difference seems to be moot. For general audiences, of course you are more accurate than I.
I apologize for not being more detailed in my post.
debe
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Might be worth exporting the movie out as a self-contained movie file (not using QuickTime conversion) and re-importing it back in.
You get two bonuses with that…no more media performance warning, and no rendering, because you will have made it a FCP-friendly QT movie.
debe
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When you say you have your project file on the LaCie…do you really mean the actual FCP Project file? The file you go to when you go to File>Open, or double click on to launch FCP?
Projects files should never be on external drives, especially on external drives that hold it’s media. That’s asking quite a bit of those poor drive heads, to access that media and the project off of the same drive.
Move that to the internal drive. I have a folder in my documents folder called “FCP Projects”, and I organize by client within that folder.
That may not solve this problem, but it may save you from other problems in the future.
debe
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In the System Preferences>Energy Saver settings, do you have the box to “put disk(s) to sleep when possible” checked?
If so, try unchecking that.
Also, of you can streamline how many drives you have daisy-chained, that’s good advice, too!
debe
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Kevin–
You’re going to have to have a “beer card” at NAB, like the old-fashioned “dance cards” the ladies used to have!
debe
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One caveat-
If you’re working in DV resolution, FCP likes the audio and video to be together. Don’t put captured DV audio & video on separate drives. You’ll hurt a lot less if you don’t.
For the higher resolution formats, kstheory’s advice is nontheless sound.
debe
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I don’t generally work in 10-Bit, but when I see bright green or bright pink, I Immediately think corrupted media.
Can you try to re-caputre the clip? Or trash any render files and re-render?
debe
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That’s ‘cos I’m SUPERFAST, Shane!!
debe
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Google MPEGStreamclip. It’s free!
Otherwise, there’s DVDxDV or Cinematize, which are not free, that will demux your files. I can see a difference from free to paid for, but it’s not a mind-blowing difference. If you don’t need the best quality you can possibly get, you can probably get away with using MPEGStreamclip. Otherwise, you’ll get better quality from DVDxDV or Cinematize.
If you need more info, google “demuxer”, and read away!!
debe