Still having dropped frame problems in 720p

This situation will not go away. I can play 1080i all day but try to play a 720p sequence and frames drop
every few seconds. In the browser and in the timeline. Doesn't matter if the media is on an external SATA array or on the internals. The playback stalls. This has gotten extremely frustrating. Any help the the folks in the know?
Best,
Tom

I agree with Tallguy. It's either the higher frame rate, the type of compression or both.

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I'm still receiving dropped frames on my capture, which throws my audio wildly out of sync.
This is an FCP 3.0 running on a 10.4.9 Mac OS X computer, a G5.
I have:
Switched from both Safe RT to Unlimited RT.
Made sure there aren't multiple firewire drives plugged in.
Captured directly to my internal hard drive (as opposed to my external G-Raid)
Switched cameras.
Switched mini-DVs.
(I've also done that thing where you go into User Preferences, Go to Spotlight, Click on Privacy and drag your capture folder into the bin...which didn't work)
I've concluded it must not be the camera itself if two different cameras are both dropping frames, probably some setting in FCP I don't know about.
If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it, Thanks.

SInce you list an iMac as your computer your options are limited as the usual fix for this problem is adding a second firewire bus and you can't do that with the imac.
But to clear something up, earlier you wrote...
Sorry, I'm running my camera through the firewire device....and capturing all the media to my internal hard drive.
The only hope you have is that you can capture directly to the system drive. To do this, just plug the camera into the computers FW port. Disconnect any other FW devices including the external drive.
If that works you can transfer the footage to the FW drive after capture.
Might also try the spotlight fix again although I don't know how it works if the scratch drive is your system drive.
rh

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Upgraded hard drives and memory on my Macbook Pro 2011 15inch:
Hard drives = LaCie 3TB Thunderbolt (external) & WD 750GB (internal). Both are 7200 rpm.
Memory = 16GB Corsair RAM
Editing video files recorded with a Canon T3i (1080 @ 24fps, 720 @ 60fps).
Using FCPX from my internal drive and editing files from my external drive, I still get dropped frames. Anyone have experience with this or know how to work around it without using proxy media, etc.? I was hoping Thunderbolt and increased memory would help me edit smoothly on FCPX. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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hi
yes it does matter h264 is NOT and editing codec it is a delivery codec. Dropped frmaes or stuttering do matter when you edit because you cant possibly edit to music if some of the the frames are stoicking for 4 frames or more.
Google h264 and prorez and see the difference between the way they are encoded. Very simply h264 stores a lot of informtion in key frames. if you edit a piece of footage thgat os h264 sometimes these key frames are cut away and they have to be remade on the fly. That is why yo can see dropped frames, or stuttering on edit points.
Some people mistakenly think fcpx cannot handel it, even though Quicktime or VLC can play it perfectly.
ProRez 4444has alpha channel information as well, unless you specifically need this, ie you are compositing layers and need the transparecy information, stick to proRes 422. Dont know why the computers heating up? Maybe its as fed up as you?
hth
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Yes during panning or zooming I can see that frames are dropping in the stats panel.
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The native frame rate for the cam is 29.97, but as an output, averaging in the dropped frames the rate may drop as low as 27 or 28fps according to the stats panel. The difference being the number of dropped frames.
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Shane's Stock Answer #12: Dropped frames on capture/playback
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1) Do not capture to your main system drive. Since it is busy reading the operating system and application files, it will intermittently drop frames during capture. Capture to a separate internal drive, or external hard drive (firewire and eSATA for example).
2) Deactivate any anti-virus/filesaver software, including Norton and Virex. For some reason these programs think that the large files created when you capture media are in fact caused by some sort of virus, and they try to prevent this.
3) Check the format of the drive you are capturing to. It should be Mac OS Extended, journaling off. If it isn't, copy your files from it and re-initialize it. If it is any other format, you will encounter problems. If not at first, then eventually.
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http://www.digitalrebellion.com
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I am working with FCP 5.1 on a MacBook Pro. I am bringing in footage from a Canon GL-1 via firewire. The footage on the tape is non-drop frame timecode, and I have created a new setup to capture it, but for when I went to capture, a dialog box popped up that warned me I was about to capture non-drop footage to drop-frame clips. I captured the clips, and in the bin the clips show up as 29.97 frames. I put the clips on the timeline and the audio is out of sync. What is going on??? Can anyone help me?
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