[Peter Dunphy]

I’ve double-checked I have more than sufficient handles on my clips (30 secs – 1 minute on each side for a simple cross dissolve one second transition).

Looks like it’s Final Cut being funky for me. I can manually fade using the opacity level in the meantime.

Really weird I can’t do normal transitions though – I’ve edited 6 projects in FCP prior to this.

[Peter Dunphy]

You’re a gentleman John, thanks very much will check it out now.

[Peter Dunphy]

I just got the following info about this issue!! Hope it helps!

Join Date: Oct 2008
The Audio!
A-Ha! It is the audio! I had the exact same problem. Once I converted the audio to AC3 it fixed the problem! I hope this helps.

Cameorn

[Peter Dunphy]

Hi Jim,

I’m afraid I’ve no idea how it just started to work normally again! No doubt I’ll be on here again sometime in the future!

I guess the best advice I can give, which is what I did, is to setup Final Cut so that it doesn’t open with a recent project. Then turn your Mac off and leave it off for ages, turn it on, run disc permissions, then turn it off again. Then, when you eventually load up Final Cut again, try editing a ‘fresh’ project. Then hopefully that will run at normal speed again.

Best of luck!

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Think I figured it out!

it worked once I adjusted in and out points on the timeline!

[Peter Dunphy]

Thanks Daniel

Have tried a couple of times now exporting to Quicktime (It’s a one hour HD DVCPRO1050i wedding video) but keep getting the ERROR: Out of disk space message. I’ve honestly tried searching for ‘ERROR: Out of disk space’ but haven’t found a decent solution. I suppose I’m getting the error because I’m out of disc space, but is there any way I can check my project’s size prior to exporting, so I’ll know how much disc space I need for the quicktime file please?

Currently I have 228 GB on my external drive onto which I’m trying to creative my quicktime file – I would have thought that would be plenty of space don’t you think? Pretty puzzled here :o)

[Peter Dunphy]

“Export from FCP ‘using current settings’ – don’t re-render. ”

When you say don’t re-render, by me not choosing ‘using current settings’ and instead selecting DVCPRO 1080i does that mean it renders afresh? So, if I choose ‘using current settings’ it won’t render afresh and the time taken to export to Quicktime will be lessened?

Thanks again for your helpful advice, helps make things a bit clearer for me.

Peter

[Peter Dunphy]

thanks Daniel much appreciated

peter

[Peter Dunphy]

Here is where I stand now. Any further suggestions will be really appreciated:

Your settings look alright…

1. Did you happen to run any upgrades on FCP/QT/OS during the project?

* Yes I updated to Final Cut Pro 6.0.4 during the project. I also launched DVD Studio Pro and Motion for the first time since the update, just prior to burning the DVD with DVD Studio Pro. Can’t recall if I updated the OS or QT during the project. Is there a way to check update history such as in Windows XP (I’m pretty new to Macs)? Perhaps the update during the project has caused the problems? It’s unusual though that it has now affected any other videoclips I now import into FCP. Perhaps a complete uninstall/reinstall might do the trick?

2. Are the files captured to a different machine? If they are, check that they run off similar Quicktime versions (and preferably same OS and FCP versions)

The files are captured to the same machine, just the external MyBook hard drive. No other machines used.

3. Do you have more than 10-15% of free space on all hard disks?

Yes I have more than 15% free space on all hard disks.

4. Do the videos look sped up before rendering? Or does it only happen after the rendering. If it happens after the rendering, tag the scratch disk to your system disk and render.

Yes sped up before the rendering I’m afraid :o/

Any further ideas more than welcome. Thanks for all your help.

[Peter Dunphy]

Here is where I currently stand with this Final Cut issue I’ve been having. Any further advice would be really appreciated. Peter

The playback in FCP is sped up? Fishy. Try playing the exported movie file in QuickTime Player and see if it’s sped up. It helps rule out FCP bugaboos. If it’s sped up in QuickTime Player as well, then there’s something wrong in FCP.

* Yep I’m afraid that the exported movie is sped up in Quicktime player also.

Are you sure you didn’t nest your timeline into a 29.97fps timeline? 25fps media played at 29.97fps would look sped up. Check all your Sequence Settings and list the information here.

* All seems to be showing as 25 fps okay:

Sequence Presets

Editing Timebase: 25 fps
field Dominance: Lower (Even)
Pixel aspet RationAL – CCIR 601
Video Processing:YUV allowed (8-bit)
White Points: White

Compressor: DV – PAL
Millions of Colours (24 bit)
No Data Rate Limit
No Keyframes Set
Quality: 100
Audio Settings: 16-bit 48.000 fHZ Stereo

I find it unlikely that you could have applied the same speed change to every one of your clips in your timeline. And not notice it before the DVD burn, especially. So first thing I’d do is backup your project file and date- and time-stamp it. Then trash preferences and check the project again.

* Time stamped, trashed all preferences and checked it again, still fast unfortunately

A file or drive corruption can cause speed problems on playback. Are your media files in the Western Digital external? (Spread the word: Don’t use MyBooks for editing — they blow.) Move the full-quality movie file off your external drive and into the system drive, then play it back from there. Still sped up?

* Moved it onto my system drive and tried playing from there – still sped up unfortunately the same as before.

The next step would be to dump your render files and re-render. Use Tools – Render Manager to do that.

* Tried this also, dumped all the render files and re-rendered but no joy

Look at the clips in your timeline and see if they really are sped up. It’s highly unlikely. But if their speed values are more than 100 per cent, then it’d be a lot easier locating a backup project file before this happened than to try to remove a speed change from hundreds of clips.

* All the clips still show as 100%

I’ve shifted some other video clips from my external ‘MyBook’ to my system drive and imported them into a fresh project. The message displays ‘Would you like to change the sequence settings to match the clip settings’ to which I always click okay. Shockingly, these clips, once imported into FCP, also now play at the same fast speed as the other project.

Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.