Posted by Bill Fright on 12/27/77 11:33

etrenkamp wrote:
> Bill,
>
> Thanks for your help. To answer your questions:
>
> Is this the same machine, OS and FCP versions you used for the first
>
>>edit? What are these details anyway.
>
>
> Yes. I'm running FCP4 on on a G4 dual processor.

Play fair and give me versions please. Updates to FCP4? OSX ? Duel Mhz?
RAM?
>
>
>>Do you have FCP on the system drive and sources and rendering to a
>>second HD?
>
>
> Yes. I have three hard drives and one external fire wire drive. I run
> FCP off of the main OSX drive and have my media and render files on the
> external fire wire drive.
>
>
>>How long is the title animation and is it an AE file?
>
>
> The title sequence is less than a minute. It's not an AE file, it's
> stills with animated titles using FCP's Quicktime filters.
>
>
>
>>Have you checked the title animation carefully? Is it performing
>>redundant tasks? If you could briefly explain the complexity that might
>>help.
>
>
> I went through the title sequence last night and it's fine. By dumping
> my existing render files and re-rendering the sequence section by
> sequence I discovered that the problem is in the audio of the last 10
> minutes of the sequence. It took less than four hours to render
> everything else, but it took almost 6 hours to render the audio of the
> last 10 minutes. Unfortunately, I discovered this at about 7am this
> morning and had to leave for work before I could investigate further.
> However, whenever I tried to play one of the rendered sections (not in
> this troublesome last 10 minute section) it would play for about 1
> second and then a "Drop Frame Error" message would appear. I had no
> other applications running and no other windows open. I have 3 gigs on
> each of my 3 hard drives and 30 gigs left on my firewire drive and my
> trash is empty, so I don't think it's a memory problem.

Depending on your system 3gig hard drives may not work.

You have to share system and program stats. You're asking for help and
not providing fundamental clues!
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>
>
>>What is the total length of the show?
>
>
> The total length is 40 minutes.
>
>
>>How long did it take to render the last time you rendered it?
>
>
> I can't remember exactly as it was some time ago, but it couldn't have
> been more than a couple of hours.
>
> Your advice about running in a new project and reconnecting the media
> makes sense. I will try it as soon as I get back home. Any idea what
> might be causing the drop frame message?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>

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