Dropped Frames

What format are you working in? What drive is the material playing back from? What computer is this? How fast? How much RAM?

iBook? MacBook? PowerBook? MacBook Pro? What drive is the material playing back from? How full is the drive? If it's the internal drive you're likely to get dropped frames if the drive is fullish or been used for a long time. RAM is a little low. We really should 1G or better for recent versions of the application.

You should add physical RAM, a RAM chip. It's not software.

OK, let's talk about this drive. It's holding your media I take it. Is there a camera connected? What kind of drive is it, and how is it formatted? You can find out the formatting from Get Info for the drive.

"It's an MS-DOS File System (FAT32)"

That's the problem. You really need to copy the material off the drive, zero erase it, reformat it as Mac OS Extended and copy the material back to it. I'm surprised you were able to capture to that drive without problems.

You connect another hard drive to your computer. You can daisy-chain chain the drives if you have to, from the FireWire port of the computer to the FW of one drive and from the second port to the second drive.

STOP: DO NOT DO THIS.


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Message was edited by: Tom Wolsky

Message was edited by: Tom Wolsky

I just checked up on your drive. It's a Western Digital Passport, which from all I can find is a 5400rpm USB drive. In addition to not being correctly formatted, this is a USB drive, which is not supported by Apple for use with video applications, and it has a slow spin speed that makes it very marginal.

You should have a 7200rpm FireWire400 drive with an 8MB cache, or something better than that, FireWire800, eSATA, or better.

That drive is just not good enough for digital video.

Yes. Did you capture your video from your camera to the WD drive? If so look inside the Capture Scratch folder and see if the files are named something like Name-av1 and Name-av2. Do you have any of those?