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Yes, whilst rebuilding, a second drive failure is usually catastrophic. If the new drive you inserted fails, then only the rebuild fails. Tape back up is still a good idea although large projects with tons of media can make it slow and expensive.
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That message can erroneously appear when rendering a sequence with still images that have pixel dimensions greater than 4k.
If there are any files in the sequence that have pixel dimensions greater than 4k, resize them first.
There may also be a corrupt file. Try rendering small sections of the timeline until you find the area that the render fails on. You should be able to narrow the problem down to single clips.
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That works, but the easiest way is to make a custom easy setup which will also let you save other parameters like device control, pre roll, I/O card output settings etc. as well as the sequence settings.
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Fair enough Andy. I wasn’t aware that FCP allowed proper jogging via USB devices.
So does the Mackie have smooth audio jogging and doesn’t overshoot?
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So Bob, what’s your redundancy plan if a motherboard or graphics card fails? Nothing is impervious to failure anywhere in the system. RAID 5 is a good compromise between a single drive failing and speed. There are other RAID configurations that will give slightly more security but may slow your drives as well.
As with anything, buy good quality, have redundancy strategies and if you have the budget for a spare MacPro in case one dies, then you might afford a second RAID5 setup that mirrors your main drive system and constantly backs up the work drive. i have three different RAID devices here and often back up current media and project files to a second RAID.
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I have the contour but stopped using it. FCP is the problem. It implements jog by +- 1 frame keystrokes. So the jog is just like hitting the arrow keys. It is clunky as hell so don’t blame the jog wheel.
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I think it is the difference between megabits and megabytes per second. Usually it is delineated by big M or small m.
FCP doesn’t change the data on ingest so both rates are the same.
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If the clips match the sequence settings, there is no reason to have a shift fields filter. Do you have shift field filters on any clips?
Either way that should not affect the fades. Search this forum for info on how to trash preferences and repair permissions. The strange behaviour may be related to this constant maintenance requirement.
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FCP 5.1 did capture HDV but there were only a few models of HDV camera in those early days and many reported problems with Canon cameras in particular.
It may be that the newer Canons aren’t recognised by old software.
FCP is now up to 7.0.1 so perhaps it is time to consider upgrading.