[Jona Taylor]

I’ve disabled the “Warn on drop frames” years ago.

– Good to know that this will not be a problem.

“When I set the playback screen to the Macbook only there is much less frame dropping errors.”
In certain situations people can’t even render when having a second monitor attached.
A second monitor always eats resources and can be a burden for a system short of GPU.

– Again, good to know Rafael. Big thanks for all the extra info 🙂

Beer Lao!

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Tom, (and Dave)

Thanks for jumping in here. Very much appreciate your insights. Really.

“That being said, however, you might want to keep working on your single project until you start having crash problems, and then split up at that point.”

This big project (it’s actually not 109mb and not 130mb and in the very early stages as well) has already been crashing when I’m scrolling through the timeline even when there are only 2-3 sequences open, no other projects open either. Very frustrating.

Because of this issue, and the fact that I am in the beginning of this editing process, and working with multiple formats, I’ve been looking at the idea of moving away from FCP7.

Can someone comment on whether CS6 or FCPX would handle things better? It would be much more attractive to shift if they could.

Any thought?

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Rafael,

Understood. I haven’t used DiskWarrior for years.

I did a permissions repair after my recent upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard and FCP6 to FCP 7. It found no errors. I know that permissions are different than directories but everything has always been very fast and now Snow Leopard moves even faster. Can’t believe how much faster browsing is! Crazy I went so long on that old OS.

Anyway, I turned of FCP’s warming on dropped frames and now everything runs along fine. I know it’s not good to have dropped frames warnings but don’t yet understand how it can impact my project. Like I said, It seems to be happening much more now that I have connected the Macbook to an external monitor. When I set the playback screen to the Macbook only there is much less frame dropping errors.

Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Dave,

Appreciate your insights and good to have your confirmation.

So let’s suppose that I break the big project into smaller and lighter projects. Can I the close the bigger project and then open all the smaller ones and work from them without having the fear that they will crash as easily as the big one?

Looking forward,
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Sorry, for those who don’t know by all my recent activity here, I’m on a:

2008 MacbookPro
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3212
Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
DELL U2711:
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: D971T2721GCL
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported

Firmtek 5 bay SATA connected to the Macbook through the Express port.

[Jona Taylor]

Hi Walter,
Great insights. Looks like you are really covering your bases well.
I really appreciate your generosity 🙂
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Ok problem solved… but not really.
I turned off the warning on dropped frames. I don’t suppose this will cause a problem during editing.

Sorry I should mention again I have a Firmtek 5 bay SATA connect through an Express port.

Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Can anyone lend a hand here. I read everything I could find on dropping frames but it still happening.

Macbook Pro 2008

Clean instal FCP 7.0.3

Video clip matches timeline settings.

Safe RT, Playback video quality: High, Playback frame rate: Full.

XDCam 1080 24p. Single video track. No effects.

Dell U2711 External monitor.

There is a lot less dropped frames when the monitor is off. Also, I can make FCP drop frames when i touch the trackpad sometimes.

Any ideas? Please?
Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Sorry Dave (and folks), I posted to the wrong thread 🙂

Still waiting for that post to make it onto Cow. I mistakenly double posted 4-5 days ago and I’m still having to wait some time before my posts go live. I’m being moderated. Wondering when that process will end?

Jona

[Jona Taylor]

Yes. The problem is FCP is constantly stopping with a dropped frames message when displaying video on the external Dell U2711 via DVI port, but not when playing on the Macbook pro screen.

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz

NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT:

Chipset Model: GeForce 8600M GT
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0407
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: 3212

Displays:
Color LCD:
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Built-In: Yes
DELL U2711:
Resolution: 2560 x 1440 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
Display Serial Number: D971T2721GCL
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Rotation: Supported

Any insight would be wonderful relief,
Jona