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I’m experiencing dropped frames in Final Cut Pro; what can I do?

April 26, 2017cut dropped experiencing final frames I’m Pro

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I’m experiencing dropped frames in Final Cut Pro; what can I do?

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1) Ensure FCP Canvas and Viewer zoom setting is set to Fit-to-Window. 2) Ensure FCP user preferences -> Audio Quality Playback is set to Medium or High s/b Low. 3) You may have corrupted FCP preferences and or POA cache file. Delete them from: /user/yourusername/library/preferences/fcp user data. Note: Close FCP before deleting these files. After deleting these files, FCP will prompt for a project setting and scratch drive. 4) Virus checking software – Disable it. 5) Dropped frames can occur due to poor RAID performance. Check the following: a. Make sure drives are striped as OS Extended (not journaled) b. If installed, check and make sure that the SCSI card firmware and driver are current. c. If installed, make sure active SCSI terminations are lighting up green (differential mode) and not red (single-ended). d. Slow drive: If you have four or more drives, create two RAIDS and test each RAID independently with 8-bit uncompressed. Generally the RAID with the slow drive will drop frames

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1) Ensure FCP Canvas and Viewer zoom setting is set to Fit-to-Window. 2) Ensure FCP user preferences -> Audio Quality Playback is set to Medium or High s/b Low. 3) You may have corrupted FCP preferences and or POA cache file. Delete them from: /user/yourusername/library/preferences/fcp user data. Note: Close FCP before deleting these files. After deleting these files, FCP will prompt for a project setting and scratch drive. 4) Virus checking software Disable it. 5) Dropped frames can occur due to poor RAID performance. Check the following: a. Make sure drives are striped as OS Extended (not journaled) b. If installed, check and make sure that the SCSI card firmware and driver are current. c. If installed, make sure active SCSI terminations are lighting up green (differential mode) and not red (single-ended). d. Slow drive: If you have four or more drives, create two RAIDS and test each RAID independently with 8-bit uncompressed. Generally the RAID with the slow drive will drop frames.