Crashing during playback
by Simon Chan
on
Feb 3, 2008 at 2:41:44 am
Final Cut keeps locking up and either crashes or gives me the spinning color wheel. I have tried tossing the prefs and it still locks up. I have tried and opened the Quick Times straight from the hard drive and they playback fine. Even playback in the timeline with just audio it locks up. Basically it will play for a few seconds and lock up. I have downgraded to QT 7.3.1 using Pacifist. The footage is DVCPRO HD 720p. Anyone else having this problem?
Simon Chan @ Artificial Army
G5 Dual 2GHZ 4.0 Gig Ram, Decklink HD, Atto UL4D, Huge 320R, Final Cut 6.0.2, After Effects CS3
Re: Crashing during playback by Lee Burrows on Feb 3, 2008 at 4:23:39 am
Hey Simon. That is weird. I assume you are capturing your files to the HUGE hard drive and not the CPU. It sounds like an external hard drive is not quick enough or your decklink card is not doing its job but that seems impossible.
You should try and test and drag a file from your external hard drive to your computer and see if that clip will play running off your CPU.
Good Luck
Lee
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Dual 2 GHz Processor
Power PC G5
FCP 5.1.4
Black Magic Decklink Extreme
Sony UVW 1800
Motion 2
Re: Crashing during playback by Jim Calahan on Feb 3, 2008 at 7:23:35 am
Were the QT files acquired in QT 7.4? You may have to recapture the footage or fix the files with something like Imagineproducts.com QT repair program.
Re: Crashing during playback by Billy Mabou on Feb 5, 2008 at 1:50:52 am
It could be a corrupted render file. When I run into something like this, I take my files offline (unmount the media drives) to narrow things down. You could try just taking the render files offline first. Quit FCP, then add an "X" or something into the Render Files folder name, then re-launch FCP. See how it plays. If this solves it, I'd just trash those old render files and re-render.
If this doesn't solve it, try taking all your media drives offline, or move QT files out in groups so you can narrow it down. You'll have to close FCP everytime you do this, mind you.
