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ploomit
12-01-2008, 02:38 PM
Im trying to play my film on final cut and it won't let me and says there re dropped frames. It gave me sereval suggest but I'm new to final cut and don't know how to do it. One of them is lowering compression data rate.
NerdWithNoLife
12-01-2008, 03:13 PM
Are you playing the video through firewire (like back to a camera or Dazzle) as it plays back? You may want to do an audio QuickMix; that helps.

Also, can you describe the hard drive you are using? External hard drives through firewire are slower than internal ones tied right into the system. It's good to use a separate hard drive than the one running your OS to store/playback your video and audio, but you want to attach it internally, or to an ATA card.

Are you working with HD footage? That can take a toll on even the best systems. Speaking of systems, make sure yours can handle video editing. Adding RAM doesn't hurt. Oh - and definitely make sure you render all non real time effects!
ploomit
12-01-2008, 03:20 PM
Its a internal hard drive. not in HD. I nevered rendered Ill try that
ploomit
12-01-2008, 03:56 PM
It gave me these suggestions:
lower preferance for real time audio tracks
lower compression data rate
close open sequences.
It gave me two other things but i tried them and it didn't work
Sacman
12-01-2008, 04:46 PM
If your hardrive is severly fragmented, it will cause dropped frames on a capture. First try to defrag your hardrive. If that does not work, I would suggest purchasing an external harddrive and capture to that. It will work wonders.
ploomit
12-01-2008, 05:30 PM
does it matter that it only pops that up when im cropping?
Sacman
12-01-2008, 10:21 PM
Good question and I don't know. I just know that I was having severe dropped frames when captruing and having very poor playback issues everywhere until I finally found an article about fragmented harddrives. I bought a 250GB external drive and restored my machine. All my problems have gone away. And even though I am getting video through a USB 2.0 port, I have seen no issue with it.

Luck,
NerdWithNoLife
12-02-2008, 12:00 AM
I had an issue like that once. I was either cropping or resizing the video (can't remember which) and it forced me to rerender the entire sequence. So unfortunately that may be normal behavior for this program.