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Hannah Beers
October 6, 2011 at 3:28 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

I wish I wasn’t back on this thread but I am…

I don’t know what changed – suddenly the dropped frames are worse than ever. I have even opened old projects, none of which used dslr footage or gave me problems with dropped frames before, and I can hardly play a couple seconds without issues. Same thing if I start a new project and drop one pro res clip on the timeline.

This G-drive belongs to my employer; when I take my laptop home, I work off a smaller Seagate external (also firewire) and then Final Cut doesn’t give me much trouble – so maybe it’s a problem with the new external drive or the way it’s formatted?
Hannah Beers
September 29, 2011 at 8:04 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

Looks good! Thanks so much.
Hannah Beers
September 29, 2011 at 7:05 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

The following is checked:
Safe RT
Play base layer only
Scrub high quality
Playback Video Quality = Low
Playback Frame Rate = Full
Multiclip Playback
Record to Tape = Full Quality

…. After I checked I switched the playback frame rate to “Half” and now it’s playing smoothly! Perhaps that was the problem. Will I need to switch any of these settings before exporting, or are they only relevant for editing?
Hannah Beers
September 29, 2011 at 5:31 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

Only 800.
Hannah Beers
September 29, 2011 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

Now what?
Hannah Beers
September 28, 2011 at 12:56 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

I have a brand new 3TB G-Drive, connected via firewire. I have another drive for running Time Machine, so on the GDrive I have my FCP files as well as older, completed projects. Anything else I should look for?
Hannah Beers
September 27, 2011 at 8:06 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

I used Compressor to translate the files from Quicktime to ProRes 422, but now the dropped frames are worse than ever! Any other suggestions?
Hannah Beers
September 27, 2011 at 6:52 pm in reply to: Video from Canon DSLR, having problems with dropped frames

Thanks for the reply. And I promise I did look through the forum, but I’m not that fluent in formats or technical language and I wasn’t sure which diagnoses apply to my scenario.

What should I use to transcode my footage? FCP or another program?