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I'm doing my first MultiCam edit on a new (December 2010) 15" MacBookPro not my first MultiCam edit but my first on this machine. I'm getting a Dropped Frame Alert and playback stops often when switching between the angles. (I did not experience this on my previous machine.)
FC 7.0.3 OS 10.6.6 2.66 GHZ i7 4 GB Ram NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 7200 RPM 500 GB HD (2 partitions) 1 partition for video scratch I have 2 streams of DV (on a DV timeline) 4 Tracks of audio (2 tracks have audio from Cam 1 and 2 tracks from Cam 2 that are from a control device to later time the presentation slides to) Playback is set to Dynamic I have tried both Safe and Unlimited RT 1 Sequence open It's getting frustrating... any suggestions? Steve Steve FCPX FCP 7.0.3 Premier CS6 MBP Retina 2.6i7 16GB / iMac 27" 3.4i7 16GB
Sounds like you need a dedicated scratch disk, not a partitioned system drive.
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Interesting.... Using the Aja System Test... the video partition does a Read/Write test at a consistent 55 MB/s while the main partition with programs etc., is around 111 MB/s.
I did move the project to my older machine... it was worse.... never mind... maybe I'm on acid remembering that it worked on that machine.... maybe I was editing off of an external.... I was hoping that having the 7200 rpm instead of the 5400 would have made a difference. A good amount of my editing happens on the plane... and we all know how much room there is... Steve FCPX FCP 7.0.3 Premier CS6 MBP Retina 2.6i7 16GB / iMac 27" 3.4i7 16GB
That's what I hate about partitioning. The first partition is fast, the next one, depending on the size of the first partition, can be quite slow. An average of 50 MBs is good for dv, but all this happens on the system drive. I may turn off spotlight profiling on the media drive.
Why not use a portable FW800 drive instead? ![]() www.strypesinpost.com
You could always get a G-Raid mini which is bus powered and takes up very little room.
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