[Jason Lyons]

Personally I have never had a problem sourcing tons of DV footage to a drive with Journaling turned on, but I was using a Dual 2GHz G5 not an eMac, so try turning it off.

Ken Stone covers setting up drives and how to turn off journaling here:

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/partitioning_tiger.html

Cheers!

j

[Jason Lyons]

Hmmm I almost hesitate to comment, because it exposes my backside.

I ran into the soft playback thing in the past and found that it was an error on my part. I often edit with wireframe+image turned on and in my haste I had accidentally nudged a clip ever so slightly in the frame of the canvas, resulting in the footage being soft because it had moved it to a incremental pixel – something like -3.03,0 for the center in the motion tab. After resetting the clips motion to default everything sharpened right back up!

And yeah, I have never noticed a quality difference, between the two modes of ingestion. If this were the case I would suspect there would be many other problems appearing (dare I say indigestion?).

Happy St. Patricks +1

jason

[Jason Lyons]

To find out if Journaling is on you can select the drive in question and do a get info (Apple-I) and look under format – it will say “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.

By having successfully captured before with this machine it almost sounds like may be something OS related. You may want to clear the OS cobwebs that form from time to time between restarts. Try:
1) Power everything down
2) Reseat all connectors
3) Power everything back up Restart & Try again
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If that doesnt help, try:
– Try using a different deck/camera to source with
– Run Disk First Aid
– Run Disk Warrior

Good Luck
jason

[Jason Lyons]

By having “report dropped frames” turned off you are in effect telling FCP to play regardless of dropping frames, and unfortunately when it drops frames it often will go out of synch.

How full are your drives?
j

[Jason Lyons]

Interesting. Can you explain the “Multi-screen display” a bit further? Are you doing projectors? What output I/O are you using ?

You are most likely going to have to size down the footage to fit into the highest sequence size your I/O will support.

hope this helps
jason

[Jason Lyons]

Check your User Preferences – General Tab… you will see audio synch drift if you have ‘Report dropped frames during playback’ turned off.

Also, and perhaps more importantly, since you did Capture Now did you have ‘Abort Capture on dropped frames’ off? if so you could have captured the clip with dropped frames thus losing synch.

If you had/have both of these settings on and there is still synch probs, then it sounds like you have hard drive problems. What hard drives are you capturing to? Firewire? Have you captured and edited successfully in the past with your current setup? Sounds like a hard drive problem. When was the last time you restarted the machine?

And to answer your question about trashing preferences before each project I would suggest not doing so and only do so when troubleshooting a problem.

Hope this helps
jason

[Jason Lyons]

Ya know I run into this the render-memory thing from time to time in both audio and video. The way I work around it is to highlight the offending clip in the timeline then move the clip left or right a few frames then back. I find it easiest to use the bracket keys to perform this. Normal keystroke would be Shift-Left bracket, then Shift-Right bracket – MOST of the time it dislodges the stuck render.
Hope this helps.

It would be nice if this were fixed or at least if there was a tool or command to verify render files…

jason

[Jason Lyons]

Hello Joe,
Explain a bit about what are you trying to achieve? From your description it sounds like you have no problem if you can successfully export a self-contained QT at it is in sych. So what are you ultimately trying to export to?

jason

[Jason Lyons]

Oh BTW, each of the apps I mentioned in the previous post require a significant amount of time to scan the drive so be prepared to wait a while.

j

[Jason Lyons]

The most crucial thing is to not write anything new to the drive including things like: downloading files from the net (including demo’s of utilities), copying files, saving new files to the hard drive you are trying to recover files from.

Since you are using OS I would suggest using
Micromat’s Techtool Pro 4
https://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=48

or

Prosoft’s Data Rescue II
https://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

I have had success with both, but the recovery process is a bit different than it was back in the OS9/Norton Utilities days as often times the names of files are not preserved when you recover files. Also, FYI – Norton Utilities or Norton System Works is apparently no longer supported by Symantec.

Hope this helps,
jason