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Issues with FCP on intel iMacs with external drives
I ran into alot of dropouts and corruption when capturing from tape into FCP -- but only when I had external FW and USB drives connected. Once those were physically disconnected, I haven't had a problem. (dismounting them ain't enough, I had to pull out the cables)
Another issue might be a Leopard 5.2 issue -- while editing, the USB drive went to sleep. Even though FCP is not using that particular drive, it caused a stall, beachball, and then BOOM! FCP bailed out. What I've learned: Keep all unused external drives and devices unplugged during capture and editing. This was not an issue with my G4 1Ghz Dual PowerMac -- perhaps the bridge controller for the USB and FW ports has changed in the newer Macs -- I dunno. Anyhoo, thought I'd pass that along. |
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Check out this article from Latty Jordan's Final Cut Pro Tips site for good tips on using FireWire drives. Here are a few of the more salient points: Quote:
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No, never use USB drives for editing -- but even my USB keychain 'thumbdrives' caused havoc.
I also lost a session in FC when a fw drive refused to wake from sleep. Save and save often. Did NOT know that about Firewire throttling back to the slowest device in the chain. Thanks. |
What's a good / cheap firewire800 external hard drive?
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Ted: my current setup is a white iMac 2.16GHz w 2GB with 3 external FW400 drives from different manufacturers hooked up and I'm rock solid. Knock on wood...
OSX10.4.1 FCP6.0.3 QT7.4.5 |
Greg: G-Raid or LaCie are pretty much the "big boys" here, followed by Western Digital MyBooks (which I'm not a fan of for editing).
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You may have a program running in the background that is using up the bandwidth although I couldn't say which. I run a G5 with 4 external FireWire 800 drives. Sometimes there's a USB thumbdrive attached, sometimes a portable FireWire 400, and it never chokes up. |
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WD MyBooks
are you guys using the "regular" (black plastic?) MyBooks or the brushed metal/aluminum (not sure which it is) MyBook Studio Editions?
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The black plastic "cheap as they come" Costco special is what I've been referring to. A great home computer expansion for sure but... <insert my regularly scheduled rant here>
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I vouch for Disksomnia too. It has a info window that pops up upon every boot and can`t be turned off, but... what the hey.
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Go into "Energy Saver" in System Preferences and uncheck "put Hard Disks to sleep when possible". That has solved disk spin-up problems on all my Macs running Final Cut.
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