For some reason I cannot add freeze frames anymore. I have tried several projects and none responds. Although the FF appears does appear it only has 8seconds and I cannot enlarge it with the change duration facility... Any ideas please?
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Try deleting preferences.
If you still have the issue after deleting preferences, suggest selecting the project and from the File menu, Delete Generated Project Files > All Render Files.
Russ
Under what heading is "preferences"?
I will try on Thursday when I am next at the studio. Thank you very much
I will try, thank you very much!
Sots62 wrote:
Under what heading is "preferences"?
I will try on Thursday when I am next at the studio. Thank you very much
To delete preferences, hold down the Command and Option keys while starting FCP X. A dialog will appear. Confirm.
You will then have to reopen the library you were working on, but none of your content is affected by this.
Corrupt preferences are the most common cause of erratic behavior in the application.
Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
Try deleting preferences.
Hope that works. When I started using Media 100 back in 1996 or so, that was what we had to do to solve every weird or inexplicable issue with the software, delete the prefs. Silly that after 20 years, that's still the first thing we are asked to try.
Two decades ago, Philip Hodgetts created a script to easily purge the Media 100 prefs. There is a similar freebie available from Digital Rebellion that saves a copy of your good prefs. When needed, you delete a suspect or corrupted prefs file and replace with a copy of your known prefs. Free.
Thank you all! I will certainly try it! By the way perhaps you could advice me on buying a faster external hard drive. I have a limited graphics card but I have recently add 16 GB of Ram to my computer, now I have 24. All my footage is in external hard drive with plenty of room. I was told that a thunderbolt hard drive would make a difference to my editing. At the moment I am trying to edit a 4K video 1h20minutes long and I cannot really see what is going on because in some sections it gets fractioned or slowed down...
Should I buy a Thunderbolt hard drive? Which one? Will it make a difference?
Thank you again!
For a single external drive (i.e. not a RAID, where you'd have 2 or more drives in an external enclosure working together), there is no advantage to use Thunderbolt, as USB3 drives are cheaper and you won't feel the difference. The reason is that the limiting factor is the speed of the drive itself, not the connection. Both USB3 and Thunderbolt have a lot more bandwidth than what a single drive can use.
should I buy a Raid drive, whatever this is... forgive my ignorance but I am very new at all these...
Sots62 wrote:
should I buy a Raid drive, whatever this is... forgive my ignorance but I am very new at all these...
No. My point is that a USB3 drive will work for you.
You don't need a RAID. RAID is fast and expensive. I dare say that if you needed it, then you'd know it.
Hi,
I have cleared preferences but the problems remains... any ideas??
EWhat exactly are you doing? What exactly happens? Post screenshots.
I am trying to add freeze frames to my project. I have never had problems before but now i cannot. A thin line (freeze frame) is added to the project with 8 seconds but i cannot change duration.
What are you doing to make the freeze frame?
SHow your editing preferences.
I have been doing it tin he same way for months, it always worked!
FCPX problem with add freeze frame
