[Matt Slocum]

A few weeks ago I called Sony about the issue. The guy I talked to was very interested and wanted to help. He even called back twice to get more details of the problem. He said he would talk to his team about it. He indicated that they had not heard anything about the problem.

It seems like this forum is the only place talking about this. Other people on other forums are having the problem but haven’t figured out that its XDCAM. I need to call them back and follow up. I wonder if a couple other calls might confirm to them that I wasn’t an isolated incident.

I still say its a Sony codec problem. There is no way that a fragmented drive should cause FCP to crash. I don’t know how the codec works, but it seems like it has some sort of a memory (stack) problem when it looks up a large number of lookups at one time. A random guess wonders if the codec uses multi-threads across multi-processors, and there is a memory mixup on the intel chip. I wonder if there’s a way to limit everything to one processor core to test this?

~Matt

[Matt Slocum]

OK. I’m glad I found this. I’ve been pulling my hair out for several weeks. I’m using a spanking brand new system. I get random crashing while scrolling through the sequence, loading clips, and rendering (especially long renders). I’m going to try shutting off thumbnails. I’m having trouble imagining it being something to do with fragmentation. I’m using a brand new 8 TB RAID. Is using DiskWarrior still something I should do? Has it fixed problems with you?

I’ve heard XDCAM is a very complicated format to process. It seems to me like Final Cut might be corrupting memory while loading/saving clips.

Has anyone tried transcoding everything to another format like ProRez?

2×3.2 GHz Quad-Core intel Xeon
8 GB 800MHz DDR2
FCP 6.0.4
Mac OS 10.5.5
QT 7.5.5

~Matt

[Matt Slocum]

I love the new design and I love creative cow. You guys are awesome. You always raise the bar and improve the video world every day. I would just request an easy search bar on the home page and preferably on every page.

Thanks,
Matt