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Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoFor anyone who is technically inclined, the Instruments application that comes with Xcode 3.0, or later ( "Apple's Developer Tools" ), it looks like it can be used to record several aspects of FCP and the system when making it crash (as Ben has been doing purposefully). Here is a bit more info from the first page of the Introduction section of the Instruments manual: Instruments Userby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoBen King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll definitely be up to testing things a little > more nearer Xmas but I too have 3 onlines to get > finished before next week so won't be doing much > deliberate crashing! Oh, yeah, do real work first! > Will poke Jon Chappell a bit later with the > Developer Cattle Prod App and see if hby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoQuoteBen King Its by no means guaranteed so this is why I'd like more people to test it as I'm really not convinced that its down to CPU and not from slow storage (from my experience) like it used to be. Slow storage only ever seemed to hang the system or app but never actually crash the app unlike corrupt data or faulty soft/hard ware. I went back and looked at the first snippet of the crashby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoMike Chandler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dave--it was off the Leopard disk. The other two > Developer tools packages would load, but not > "tools" itself. Okay, sorry about that. You could always try to download Pacifist and use it to try to install the developer tools. > Is it time for me to switch to Snow Leopard? Any >by D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoMike Chandler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I couldn't get developer tools to install (error: > run tools preinstall script) If you tried to install the current developer tools, it probably won't work with Leopard (Snow Leopard is required). You should be able to install the tools from the Leopard OS installer DVD, or possibly find an older version oby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoMike Chandler Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I couldn't get developer tools to install (error: > run tools preinstall script) , so I used atMonitor > instead. Got the timeline to crash (Crash > Analyzer: MPEG MEdia) and stats at the time of the > crash were: > CPU 6-9%, > GPU 0% > VRAM 55% > > > While scrubbingby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoQuoteBen King I've just tested the same files off of the LaCie Rugged that does 60MBps R/W via FW800 and the timeline is simply more sluggish and prone to beach-balling but doesn't crash until the same over stressing of the GPU V-RAM. I am starting to think it really might be a GPU/Driver issue you know! Thanks for the additional test results. I haven't noticed FCP using more that aboutby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoQuoteBen King I have to say that I've also done a lot of mixing frame-rates in offline - unrendered - just until I'm happy to "Nattress" them (shameless plug there G ) or run them through Compressor et al. With no crashes until pushed to the limits. So although it could be a contributing factor to overloading the processors I wouldn't consider it THE single cause. Good points. Mixingby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoQuoteBen King If you guys want to test what your V-RAM is doing - then you'll need to run the OpenGL Driver Monitor app which you'll need to get from developer tools. Thanks for mentioning that utility. I have used atMonitor, as well. QuoteMike Chandler Project has 14 audio , 8 video tracks, but no Motion. It does have quite a mix of codecs and framerates: Pro Res 422 HQ 2398, PRO Res 422by D-Mac - Café LA Re: Change to correct tape format - 13 years agoI believe that the original series of HDV decks, like the M15U, only handle 1080i 50/60 formats (and can ingest 720p30). The replacement deck, M15AU, does support progressive HDV formats... --- So, you may be able to copy the tapes to memory card in-camera, or possibly to the hard disk unit. Afterwards, you could then transfer the content to your computer... However, I have limited experby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agojwatt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My problem is ours is a rather lean, > results/product driven operation so I don't have > or at least perceive I don't have the time to > experiment. Most of us are in the same boat... It's no fun spending time trying to troubleshoot issues... I would be very frustrated if my system crashed as oftenby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoHave you thought about trying to edit some of your pieces with FCP 6 (i.e., install FCP6/FCS2 on a new drive with your current setup)? I really doubt that the issue is exclusively related to HDV or XDCAM EX footage. I have been editing both formats extensively in the past few years and haven't had significant problems. You even mentioned that this behavior has occurred since FCP 7 came out (anby D-Mac - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD (tape) workflow?... - 13 years agoQuoteVPiccin I am just taking a guess here, using something I have observed doing web compressions from HD Digital Masters. I have found that you get better looking final results if you slightly blur the images prior to scaling and compression. Typically I use Episode for this process, and as part of their scaling engine they allow you to add a low pass filter. Basically this throws out the highby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoTom Wolsky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No. Energy Saver only effects the system drive. It > won't effect any externals. But, in a Mac Pro, wouldn't that setting also affect all internal drives (in the 4 bays)? -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agoTom Wolsky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Both of these sound like drive related issues. > Media not being delivered promptly, like when > called up from a sleeping drive that doesn't > respond quickly enough. (I've been following the thread out of curiosity. Thanks to everyone.) Tom, are you suggesting that this could be caused by an improby D-Mac - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD (tape) workflow?... - 13 years agoQuoteDanimal Questions... Firstly,does this look right? Anything you'd be doing differently? Dan, I would like to thank you for taking the time to clearly state your situation and for mentioning the details of your setup. If more people did this when they post, it would make helping them so much easier (and yield faster responses, no doubt). Generally speaking, your workflow choices seemby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 5 can't read HDV files - 13 years agoTom Wolsky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the application was properly installed it > should have the HDV codec. I don't believe 1080p30 > was available with that version, but I'm surprised > the QT player doesn't open it at all. I believe that FCP 5 had limited support for HDV (1080i60 or 1080i50 for 1080 formats). FCP 6 added progressiveby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Film School at NYFA or LAFS - 13 years agoLoren Miller Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Francis Coppola was a film student himself once, > remember that! ;-) His thesis was THX1138. I'm sure you meant to say George Lucas... "THX 1138" was based on Lucas's student film "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB". -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agoBen King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Though, I guess if you buy everything from one > > vendor, things are more likely to work properly... I knew that statement might be a little too open-ended (or optimistic)... Ben, thanks for clarifying that... I should have mentioned that some of the higher-end vendors, or even a few resellers,by D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >You'd think that since Snow Leopard has been out > for a year now that driver issues > >(SL and 64-bit compatibility) would have been > dealt with by now... > > Heck, I thought an esata to express card > connection would have been trivial to implement. > Apprently not. > >by D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the advice, Dave. I'm actually still > trying to figure out what really happened. I'm > suspecting the express card due to the kernel > panics, and maybe because I am running off the 64 > bit kernel and it may not be compatible. I'm also > not on the latest drivers (well, they were the &gby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Granted, I was a little complacent, and I > shouldn't have rebuilt the directory without > properly checking it first. Given that I should > have assumed the worst, I should have first > proceeded with cloning the drive (I'd be hard > pressed to find a store that stocks hard drives at > 2am), theby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Data Rescue did manage to salvage some > files, but none of big 20+ GB files. Wow, that's too bad... > I think something caused the RAID to write data > over existing files, and that created the issue. > I'm not sure if it is caused by the eSATA/Express > Card adapter or if the RAID card wentby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agografixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always assume that a RAID will fail just like > any single hard drive > > Um...no...that is so not true. In RAID 1 or RAID > 5, you simply pull out the bad drive, insert a > clean (matching) one & rebuild. Not all RAIDs fail > like Gerards and 99.9% of ALL RAIDs do not fail > like aby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Drive issues - 13 years agoWow, bad luck Gerard! I would be very careful before you continue what you seem to be doing. Since you have a RAID-1 setup, I would first "break up the RAID" before doing anything else. Otherwise, you will be simply duplicating the damage to two separate drives. Work on one drive at a time. It seems like the eSATA card may be at fault since you're were able to use the FW800 conneby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Advice simple fcp setup - need raid at all? - 13 years agoBen King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ah Dave ever the reader of small print! For most > people you might not notice those valuable seconds > or even minutes when rendering a lot of 3D will > mount up. > > You have to remember that pxl will be doing a LOT > of memory and processor intensive tasks screaming > all 24 virtual coreby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Advice simple fcp setup - need raid at all? - 13 years agoBen King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All the new 2009/2010 MacPros have Triple Channel > memory. > > Go for 3x or 6x Memory Modules in one of these > configurations: > > 06GB - 3x 2GB or 6x 1GB > > 12GB - 3x 4GB > > 24GB - 3x 8GB or 6x 4GB > > 48GB - 6x 8GB > > > To learn why you should goby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Advice simple fcp setup - need raid at all? - 13 years agoJeff Johnston Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "full kit from OMC for less than half the price." > > Ok, I'm on the cusp of ordering my new Mac. OMC? > Can you elaborate who/what that is? > > Thanks! > Jeff Johnston I think Joey meant to type "OWC" instead of "OMC," the former stands for Other World Coby D-Mac - Café LA Re: Advice simple fcp setup - need raid at all? - 13 years agopixelpoetic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ram, ugh. I went for the most I could afford, 16gb > at 8 X 2gb strips. I know you should try to do 2gb > a core, but that is what I could get. Am I screwed > with that? Starting with the 2009 Mac Pro models, there are two virtual cores per physical core, effectively doubling the number of actual coreby D-Mac - Café LA Re: FCP 7.0.3 frequent crashes - 13 years agojwatt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The graphics card is an ATI Radeon 1900. There have been reported issues with the ATI Radeon X1900 XT graphics card. FYI, there is a firmware update for that card from Apple (it came out a few years ago, so you may have already installed it). Also, some batches of this card have exhibited overheating, artifactingby D-Mac - Café LA |
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