Final Cut Express problem

[BRanger62]

Okay here me out.

I'm shooting my first short film in months. I need to edit this peice by peice because it will take so long to finish.

So, I borrowed the local studios GL1 and shot at a 24 fps rate for the film look.

I got this final cut express 2 years ago so it may need an upgrade.

But every time I want to capture somthing on FCE it freezes about 5 mins into the tape. I only have 6 mins of footage.

I cant figure out whats wrong. And I want to finish this film.

PLEASE HELP!

[etentertainment]

Since you're using Final Cut, I'm assuming you have a Mac.
Since you have a Mac, I'm assuming you have iLife.
Since you have iLife I'm assuming you have iMovie.

Think about capturing the footage iMovie, then importing
it into Final Cut.

[BRanger62]

I forgot to mention that. It does the same thing on iMovie

[nooneimportant77]

then final cut is not the problem. what the the specs of the computer?

[BRanger62]

what do you mean?

[HunnyBunchFilms]

Do you have Final Cut Express HD?

[nooneimportant77]

how much memory do you have? how much ram do you have? whats your processor speed? how many processors do you have? are you capturing to a different hard drive then you're editing on?

[etentertainment]

What happens when you playback the tape in the camera/ deck?

[BRanger62]

I do have FCE HD and it has been working fine up untill this point.

I am low on memory, and I do have a separate hard drive to save to, but I havent saved anything before I capture the project. Should I do that?

The rest I do not know of.

[BRanger62]

Nothing happens with the playback, its fine

[etentertainment]

I doubt it has anything to do with the memory.

[etentertainment]

How about you capture 3 minutes of it, stop. Then save it and open a new project...try capturing the other 3 minutes of the footage and see what happens.


See if it will get stuck at the same spot.

[BRanger62]

i'll give that a try, thanks

[etentertainment]

Let us know what happens!

[BRanger62]

it doesnt do anything at the same spot.

But i remembered that i had tried this before by importing the last min and it was fine. Then I imported the rest and I let it completely import all the way and it froze at the same spot.

[etentertainment]

Okay....so if you just import 3 minutes; save and then import the other 3 minutes, you should be fine.

[BRanger62]

sounds good to me, thank you

[etentertainment]

No problemo usted.

No problem.