[Waddy]

I recently had severe performance issues with FCP. The playback was out of synch and jittery. The scrub bar was not moving fluidly over the timeline.

I installed a new hard drive and put all my video and audio on it. I repaired permissionns. I mixed down audio.

The problem persists. Is it possible I have a virus? I have also been having some really bad problems with Explorer.

I have one other theory for my FCP problems. Is it possible that I have not gotten rid of all the files that were on my master drive? I thought I threw all those in the trash. Could FCP be referring to them somehow? The reason I think that might be the case is that I never had to tell FCP to look in the new drive for the files, it just pulled them up automatically without any prompt.

If anyone can help, my business would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks

-Waddy

[Uncle Skeleton]

if you didn't empty the trash on your first files, I'd say there's a very high chance FCP is still using those

[Waddy]

Thanks for the tip, I think you were right.
I finally emptied out the trash, but I'm still having problems.


I'm using a G4 running OSX.2.6, FCP 3.0.4, 512mb ram, and now, an extra 107mb of extra hardrive space devoted specifically to FCP files.

I have been trying to import some photos (aprox. 50mb each). The photos show up, but they are scrambled, not suitable for air. A few times, I had an error saying not enough memory. My playback and performance has once again become slow and jittery.

How am I supposed to allocate more memory? I thought I did this by installing a drive that is properly configured as the slave. In my prefs, I have the slave drive set for Video capture, rendering, waveform cache, etc. Is there something I have not done with this new drive that I should have.

As always, thanks to everyone for all the help.

-Waddy

[Uncle Skeleton]

memory means RAM. I was going to suggest you need more RAM anyway, but you implied that it used to work fine (I think). Also, OS X uses a lot of hard drive space for Virtual Memory, and if you don't have about 2 GB free on your boot drive, you should probably clear up some space there.

If problems persist, try creating a new user on the machine and using that. Also try it in OS 9. These are steps in trying to narrow down the source of the problem

[itistoday]

Yeah, 100 megs is WAYYY too little space for FCP. Have at least 5 gigs free when making movies.

[Uncle Skeleton]

yeah I assumed you meant 107 GB, not MB, but forgot to ask (especially since you have 50 MB picture files)