[Keebsone]

Pat, thanks for the advice. I got it working in a lower setting which is fine. Doesn’t crash or stutter anymore, so I’m happy. Then, I just watch the cut back on dynamic. Working good for me. Thanks again for the help. Everyone at the Cow’s been terrific!
-Dave

[Keebsone]

Hey Kevin,
I tried it in Unlimited but I keep getting the “Warning Dropframes” pop up. In Unlimited, the program will let me change my playback settings to either Medium or Half (but not both), so this is a slight improvement. If I go beyond that, the Warning pop up comes in almost immediately. If you have any other ideas how I might improve the quality, I’d appreciate them. If not, it’s cool. This isn’t a deal killer for me. I can operate at the lower settings. I’m just happy I finally got the Multiclip working!
Best,
Dave

[Keebsone]

Hey guys,
I finally got it working. I think I was compressing it incorrectly. That, and I set my playback settings to Lowest and Quarter and now it works fine. Thank you for all your help and patience.
Best,
Dave

[Keebsone]

Hey Jerry,
I clicked “get info” on the Lacie and it says its format is Mac OS Extended. I had that formatting problem earlier with the 250 Lacie which was formatted as FAT-32 and split my Quicktimes into two files. I had to re-import my files and make new Quicktimes. As a result, the files are Final Cut Pro Movie Quicktime files which is what I exported them as. Should I have exported them as some other kind of file maybe? Or do you think it could be something that I mucked up in my preferences on the program when trying to get this to work? It seems strange to me that I can’t even get a 4Cam clip working on my system. I mean, I got a 4Cam working on my friend’s Mac Mini working off the Lacie 250 and my system is much faster than his.
Thanks,
Dave

[Keebsone]

Hey Kevin,
Thanks so much for getting back to me. To begin, I’d like to be fully open and admit that I am completely new to Multiclip. And I am fairly new to Final Cut too, so please forgive me if I seem a little behind the curve. With that out of the way, okay… I got my 500GB Lacie Big Disk Extreme working and loaded all my footage onto it. This has RAID 0 and is running firewire 800, so it’s a much beefier drive than my little 250GB Lacie 400. Then, I redid my multiclip in 9up. The same problems occured. So, I tried 4 cameras. No better. Stutters, and whenever I change cameras, it freezes. This makes me believe that I have messed something up in my settings somewhere that is making things stick and work improperly. Is this possible? I did mess around with the lesson from the book and changed some settings, so maybe that’s it? In which case, I’m not sure how to reset the settings to where they should be to operate properly. To recap for you, my footage is low res DV, black and white. I am running ten minute clips of Quicktime Movies which are fully contained movies that run around 2GB a piece.

I am committed to getting this multiclip working no matter what. Right now, you guys at Creative Cow are my best bet. Is my computer just too slow? Or is it as I suspect that I mucked around with settings and confused the program? Please please please let me know what I can do to solve this very annoying problem. This is my first set of posts on this board, but everyone’s been real cool so far. Thank you in advance.

Best,
Dave

[Keebsone]

I have a 250GB Lacie Firewire which I am running off. This problem still exists. I just bought a Lacie d2 Big Disk Extreme with RAID 0 which I am about to try. However, before I do that — I noticed that the item properties on my clips show that the Data Rate of my clips are only 3.6m/second. This seems very slow to me. Is this something with my preferences that I can change? Or is it a result of my system? Thanks so much for your help. I’ve been trying to figure this out since yesterday and have been frustrated thus far.
Best,
Dave