Dropped Frames/Stuttering with HM100 footage

Pale green means "preview," which typically means your system will do its damnedest to play back in real time, albeit at reduced resolution. It's not guaranteed real-time playback.

hmm.. well can I get an answer to this?
why does the footage play back perfectly in the Quicktime program, but not in final cut?

Because quicktime may drop picture quality to keep up with real time playback. You could try setting it in FCP (playback quality, switch to dynamic or low)



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FEDFiLM, did you ever find an answer to your problem? I'm having the same issue and it's probably not hardware related. Although not the latest and greatest, I am running FCP 7.03 on an 8 core Xeon machine with 6 GB of RAM, with OSX 10.6.6 and have my media on an internal 4TB - RAID 5 setup (with 3.6 TB available). My RT is set at "Safe" (which I hate, because doing anything safely has always bugged me), and playback video quality is set for "Dynamic". My playback gives me the same results as you reported, "Dropped Frames / Stuttering with HM100 footage". I also use the HM100 camcorder, and like yours, it is made by JVC :-)

FEDFiLM Wrote:
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> hmm.. well can I get an answer to this?
> why does the footage play back perfectly in the
> Quicktime program, but not in final cut?

It probably doesn't play back properly in QuickTime Player. QT Player drops and blends frames to maintain playback speed. Quality is also reduced to maintain playback speed.

With FCP, it could be many different things. Bad render files, corrupted preferences, font issues, using a "non-editing-friendly" video codec in FCP, etc.


-Dave