I've been working on a project for a week or so now, and after running out of space on my main drive, moved the entire thing to an external SCSI disk hooked up through my Adaptec 2906 SCSI card.
It all ran perfectly before that.
After moving it to the SCSI disk, and attempting to play the sequence, immediately frames are dropped, and several seconds in the warning is shown. The video barely moves, and when the stills are showing, it looks... chopped up at the edges of objects. As one might expect if it was compressed; though I've not seen artifacts like this before.
After moving it back to the fast master drive (IDE), the same problem has shown itself.
I copied it over ethernet to an iBook which once played it fine; and, once again, the problem manifests itself.
On the G4 (the main system), even playing back the individual scratch files (QuickTime movies) shows the exact same problems.
The iBook doesn't (I don't think... I can't check at the moment).
I've erased the entire system (both drives), fused all partitions, put the system, scratch, FCP and the project on the fastest drive, and nothing.
Reinstalled FCP - no go.
I just reinstalled QuickTime but can't reboot to test that at the moment; lets hope its the problem.
But, alas, it seems like its all very corrupted. I don't get it.
Making a new project and importing a clip shows the same prob.
I'm gonna rebuild the volume now, and in the morning, see if reinstalling QuickTime helped.
If not... I'll carry out the standard troubleshooting procedures.
Any ideas?
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