[Rick Dolishny]

> AND see your text over whichever background frame (wherever your timeline cursor is parked) that you wanted

That’s actually a really huge deal, and missed sorely.

– Rick

[Rick Dolishny]

I still can’t believe the only standalone logger is TEP and it’s over $400 per seat. What a simple thing to do, too bad I’m not a programmer. 🙁

The problem with the Excel approach as far as I can tell you have to type in the colons, but of course it’s a semi-colon before frames. That’s asking for all types of problems if logged incorrectly. I wish Excel had a feature where I could just type 01010202 and it autoformats to 01:01:02;02. That would be great… alas only Discreet and Velocity have standalone loggers that I can tell, plus the pricey The Executive Producer.

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Sounds terrible.

Try leaving the Project, go to a Project you know works, then from THERE create a third Project. Create a timeline. Go to the corrupted timeline and select all and copy, and paste in the new Project.

Deselect in prefs “open last Project” or something like that.

Close FCP. Reboot, Open just the good timeline.

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Thanks and your suggestions got me thinking, ultimately a solution!

I clicked the network share on the dock and moved the window to the centre of the screen.
I trashed the little network icon our IT guy created on the dock.
I dragged the correctly positioned window back onto the dock.

Voila! Next time it opened it opened exactly where I wanted.

And yes we were playing around with different dual displays until we settled on the one I have now. That must have been a part of the problem.

Thanks bogiesan for getting me thinking. And thanks, too, for the OSX COW suggestion.

– Rick

[Rick Dolishny]

On a somewhat related note, can you disable fields when the playhead is paused/stopped?

It may be a hardware thing I’m using an AJA IO box. The stuttering vis while it’s paused it a bit disconcerting for some clients.

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Exit the FCP app.

Copy your capture scratch folder from your ext. HD to any other drive you think might work better.

Unmount the suspect drive.

When you relaunch the FCP Project it will complain about missing media… or maybe not. If it does, relink it by telling it the drive you have moved to media to. There is a check button to link all missing media the the new folder you specify.

You will likely have to re-render your renders, otherwise you’re on the new drives so go for it.

Good luck!

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Well, it looks REALLY bad!!! 🙁

Not just a frame dropped but almost a full second of playing catch up, and most times it aborts the PTT anyway.

Freeing up HD space and/or ejecting network drives helped get me through it.

Mixing down audio seemed to help overall too.

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Is it a process that runs in the background using up cycles?

Can I delete it and will FCP and OSX continue to run fine?

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

Craig, I was investigating why my machine is slow ‘sometimes’ (sluggish) and did the search and found the refs and was just about to ask the same thing.

It seems to be a render wrangler for Shake and Maya and I wonder if it’s taking up CPU time and if I can delete it.

Anyone?

– R

[Rick Dolishny]

That helped prevent most of the stops, thank you!

The drives are kinda full, that may be it. Just wondering what to expect if I turn off the “abort PTT” option. Will know tonight I think! 🙂

– R