[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Lee-Anne,

Is there a chance that the drive isn’t formatted for Mac? Open Disk Utility and check how the drive has been initialized. If it is formatted for mac you may want to check if there is the 2 gb file limitation is checked in the fcp preferences and also make sure the permissions of the capture drive are kosher. While USB isn’t recommended I do capture with it. I have a bunch of drives that are esata/usb2 and capture on machines that don’t have an an esata port to edit on machines that do. While the throughput of the usb is 20-30 MB/sec (compared to 60-70 MB/sec for esata) its still more than adequate to capture dv or hdv.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Joe,

Dropouts (at least for me) show themselves in long takes as breaks in the footage. Also, do you have the “Create new clip on Start/Stop” box checked?

[Joel Peregrine]

Can only hope in my dreams that the 17″ will have four cores…

[Joel Peregrine]

I use this to keep track of the media on 40+ drives:

https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA008942/library/diskcatalogmaker/index.html

It allows you to search for contents when they are offline. Couldn’t live without it.

[Joel Peregrine]

“BTW, no one whose really appreciates the performance benefits of SATA would even think about using a single drive for editing. So, just because “most users have them set up” that way, that only means that most people don’t really get it. That’s not unusual.”

A little condescending, don’t you think? COW just lost a pair of eyeballs…

[Joel Peregrine]

8x’s as fast? Maybe by spec, but not in my tests with a single drive, which is the way most users have them set up. These are results from a new 320gb 2.5″ in an enclosure with fw and esata:

eSATA
Ext. Xfer Size Extended Read Extended Write

2 MBytes 49.606 MB/Sec 75.148 MB/Sec
3 MBytes 90.750 MB/Sec 75.632 MB/Sec
4 MBytes 91.741 MB/Sec 74.280 MB/Sec
5 MBytes 89.469 MB/Sec 73.439 MB/Sec
6 MBytes 95.430 MB/Sec 73.854 MB/Sec
7 MBytes 70.128 MB/Sec 68.089 MB/Sec
8 MBytes 50.820 MB/Sec 67.715 MB/Sec
9 MBytes 55.993 MB/Sec 64.673 MB/Sec
10 MBytes 62.203 MB/Sec 63.685 MB/Sec

FW800
Ext. Xfer Size Extended Read Extended Write

2 MBytes 45.354 MB/Sec 56.144 MB/Sec
3 MBytes 74.789 MB/Sec 56.527 MB/Sec
4 MBytes 76.737 MB/Sec 56.016 MB/Sec
5 MBytes 77.202 MB/Sec 56.115 MB/Sec
6 MBytes 77.986 MB/Sec 51.445 MB/Sec
7 MBytes 52.792 MB/Sec 54.490 MB/Sec
8 MBytes 59.809 MB/Sec 53.449 MB/Sec
9 MBytes 62.078 MB/Sec 53.915 MB/Sec
10 MBytes 59.929 MB/Sec 53.142 MB/Sec

FW400
Ext. Xfer Size Extended Read Extended Write

2 MBytes 32.601 MB/Sec 35.928 MB/Sec
3 MBytes 36.172 MB/Sec 36.460 MB/Sec
4 MBytes 36.044 MB/Sec 36.179 MB/Sec
5 MBytes 36.336 MB/Sec 36.194 MB/Sec
6 MBytes 36.406 MB/Sec 35.223 MB/Sec
7 MBytes 32.817 MB/Sec 36.238 MB/Sec
8 MBytes 34.640 MB/Sec 35.998 MB/Sec
9 MBytes 34.869 MB/Sec 35.927 MB/Sec
10 MBytes 35.503 MB/Sec 35.938 MB/Sec

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Monica,

Capturing with the HV-20 shouldn’t cause any problems for footage shot on an HV-20 or an XH-G1. Its only after you get the footage in the computer that an extra step is necessary. You need to follow these instructions for the HV-20 footage only:

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT2410

Those instructions only apply if the the HV-20 was shot at 24p. If they were set at 30p or 60i that step isn’t necessary.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Mike,

Other suggestions may be using Motion and enabling Optical Flow or applying filters like Twixtor, but I’ve noticed an improvement by using some motion blur right in the clip’s motion settings tab.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Ann,

Does the FCP screen the shows the progress of the application opening stop at a certain point? I’ve had sudden incompatibilities with certain filters that can cause the problem you’re describing. If you notice the screen stops and crashes while loading a particular filter take that filter out and try again. Also, you might try trashing all your renders. There might be a corrupt file that is causing the crash. Lastly, try reinstalling FCP. As a last resort you can dump your media and project file to an external drive and open it on another Mac. It will then just be a matter of reconnecting the resources to the project file.

[Joel Peregrine]

Hi Earl,

Artbeats Film Clutter 1 and 2 is an option, though its pricey. Place the Artbeats clip on the track above where you want the effect and change it’s composite mode to screen.

https://www.artbeats.com/collections/403

The MovieFX transition from this group also comes in handy:

https://www.cgm-online.com/eiperle/cgm_e.html#dve2