[Robert Semeniuk]

Mark, you and I have very similar systems, right down to the problems experienced! I think you are being generous in writing things off due to “pilot error”. I am somewhat disappointed that I’ve got this MONSTER machine, with 6TB of storage on an external, fibre-channel G Speed drive, 6 gigs of RAM, and I still get these “hiccups”, weird stuttering video, and the frame dropping!

Mary Beth, the best I can do for you is to say I had the very same problem, and although it didn’t “solve” the problem, Command “R” to re-render the sequence, even if it’s been rendered, seemed to help.

I don’t know if I’ve got a compatibility issue somewhere or what, because as well as having the same problems described here my MacPro also “locks up” and becomes unresponsive, with the deliriously spinning rainbow forcing me to hard reboot.

You’ve got the right idea with the RT setting I think, I sort of go back and forth depending on what kind of mood I’m in. I find the frame dropping gets worse as I add effects and such. Command “R” can smarten it up.

Hang in there!

[Robert Semeniuk]

Forgive me…CalibratedQ? When I punch that into Google all I get are links back to this string of posts. http://www.calibratedq.com only gets me an error message.

I am quite new to all of this stuff and am looking for a way to get the video already ingested into my Macpro and FCP 6.0.2 out again so I can use it in a PC Avid suite.

It looks like I’ve been ingesting it incorrectly for dual purpose use. I have NOT been copying the BPAV files, to be honest I’m not certain what that is, although I’m sure I’ve seen reference to that somewhere either in FCP or on my Mac somewhere.

This is complicated by the fact that I am not a Mac guy and am learning on the fly.

Will CalibratedQ get me out of this jam where I need to export clips or video using something, so that an Avid Nitris on a PC can read it?

[Robert Semeniuk]

Thanks for the response Don. This whole thing has been quite a learning curve for me so I appreciate the help of people like you. When I get to work today I will try the steps you’ve laid out.

My confusion rests in the premise that every FCP project requires it’s own scratch disk and media associated with it. Using media from another project, I surmised from reading about FCP, is troublesome- if you change the associated projects media it starts to affect other alias projects. Hence every project has it’s own media. True or true?

There are a few things I have to clean up and I would think if the method described is successful, then that is how I shall proceed.

Thanks,

Rob Semeniuk