8string
Well-known member
I'm continuing to have problems with relatively 'long' L&T clips. I have been shooting interviews, they go on for, say an hour. I setup L&T to watch them, and cut quotes out of the interview. Lately, as I have been approaching the last 3rd of the clip, the arrow that shows where in the clip timeline you are starts jumping ahead, and I cannot put it back where I last was. The footage actually is fine. It's the L&T that seems to be having problems. I can sometimes start the clip from the beginning, but it often jumps again when it's at the 2/3rds mark (roughly). I can not manually reposition the tracker to the 2/3rds area, without it jumping forward to near the end. This happens with numerous different clips, stored on diferent hard disks. I have tried trashing prefs, running DU (no problems found) etc. No luck. It comes right back. I reboot, etc. No luck . I am running a Mac Pro w/one internal drive for OS and program file, one raided set of drives 1T x 2 internal, 1T G drive external, 2T G drive external where the copied original footage is. I've also tried moving original footage to the 1T G drive. No change to the problem.
Eventually the clip might stutter, but that hasn't happened since I trashed prefs.
These problems do not happen in short clips.
Questions:
Has anyone else seen this with AVCHD or some other format?
If so, is there a cure?
Is this the preferred way to handle long clips in FCP? Meaning do you create subclips from the master clip during L&T , or do you normally import the whole clip and subclip it in the editing viewer window? I do it this way to try and minimize the size of the clips being imported, to save hard disk space.
Eventually the clip might stutter, but that hasn't happened since I trashed prefs.
These problems do not happen in short clips.
Questions:
Has anyone else seen this with AVCHD or some other format?
If so, is there a cure?
Is this the preferred way to handle long clips in FCP? Meaning do you create subclips from the master clip during L&T , or do you normally import the whole clip and subclip it in the editing viewer window? I do it this way to try and minimize the size of the clips being imported, to save hard disk space.