[Peter Stevens]

Interesting turn of events. I think my issue is the unity. Everytime we attempt to perform a digital cut from media on our unity it bumps out with either a dropped frame or audio underrun. If we then transcode the media to a local drive with new seq it outputs without any issues. Interplay does not seem to be part of the equation as I have successfully output seqs that had media living on local drives and have been checked into Interplay. That being said, does anyone have any input on what would cause the unity to effect digital cuts?

[Peter Stevens]

Unfortunately we have tried that trick and we ended up with the same failure rate during the digital cut. We also failed on a crash record, assemble and insert digital cut. What is weird is that it is inconsistent in where it stops during the seq, where the media is living and the number of tracks, effects and titles involved. The only common thread is that it is system wide. Anybody have similar issues.

[Peter Stevens]

That is exactly what I’ve been doing – banging my head against the wall. Not sure if I have more than one problem on the system. Avid is saying we need to test to narrow it down to 1 of 3 things. 1. Interplay (they tend to doubt it)
2. Bad house sync
3. Throughput issue.

As an added bonus we are now getting video freezes during playback and digital cuts.

Help!