Weird Glitch on FCP 7

So here's a strange one!

Been editing a twelve minute piece on FCP 7. A tutorial on changing spark plugs. Used a bunch of lower thirds for step numbers and some white highlights here and there. we did a two minute simple animation that used a few PSD files right in FCP. Everything was working great, no problems.

Then out of no were yesterday, all my sync was off by almost a second, but it did not reflect that on the clip itself. Any graphic; lower third, text, highlight that i had inserted would glitch on itself by basically repeating a few frames of itself half way through the duration of the clip.

I tried re booting the system as my thought was that maybe I had been rendering so much that maybe the computer just freaked out a bit...and nothing. I actually couldn't restart FCP after that cause it said I had no VRAM available to run the program.

then i deleted all of the render files, re booted and was able to get back into FCP. Then did a full re render of the timeline. That brought my sync back to vid/aud but the fix for the graphics is basically i take, say a three second lower third, grab one end of the clip, pull it as to shorten the length, drop it. Then resize the clip back to its original length, re render it... and now it works....

Totally scratching my head on this one...

Anyone have any idea whats going on?

Running a three month old tower with plenty of RAM and free hard drive space.

Thanks!

maybe open up a previous auto-save version of the project file (if that was the final version of the animation) and export-reimport the quicktime and work with that, otherwise you could try checking your frame rate on the sequence settings and/or copy-paste the material into a new FCP project file?

Bluey,

Sounds like a project-file corruption. I would disconnect all media and reconnect to flush the clip-project relationships.


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You think that maybe the sequence got corrupt somehow?

Hey Derek,

I'll try that out.

Thanks

And thanks Bluey!

What is your media? H.264?