Deleting Drop Frames these days?

In the old days you just held down Alt while dropping in your background image and one of the options was to replace drop frames (what IS the point of those anyway?) along with the background picture from the Theme (how I wish you could just start with a blank project! - sigh)
But now, (iDVD 7.1.2) that option is no longer there. I just get 'replace background' or 'make a slideshow.'
Surely there must stil be a way to delete these annoying boxes - or am I being even more of a dork than usual?
Many thanks
Tom

And while I'm here - where is the highlight colour box these days? I can find the text colour box, but I don't want text, just frames.
IIABDFI
(If It Aint Broke Don't Fix It, Mr Jobs))

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Ability to Recover Dropped Frames in Spanned MTS Files?

Hi everyone,
I know there's a previous thread about an issue similar to this, but it's been a long time since someone commented so I'm trying to get a quicker more specific answer here. I'll keep this short:
Using a Sony NXCAM, and I was not aware of needing to use the Content Mangement Utility to export footage onto my editing machine. I realize this is how you get the spanned MTS files back into a single file. I now have over 200 GB of footage shot over a week long period. I just copied over the MTS files ONLY to my editing machine each day, then reformatted the cards to make space for the next day's footage.
Now, when placed in the timeline, all the clips have the dropped audio frames where they were split.
My question is, is there a way to recover/recombine these files AFTER they've been taken off the memory card, and I no longer have anything but the MTS files only - not the PRIVATE folder, or any of the accompanying stuff.
Am I SOL here? Or is there a way to recombine the spanned files at this point?
Using Premiere Pro CS5.5, but also have access to CS6 if needed.

I was not aware of needing to use the Content Mangement Utility to export footage onto my editing machine.
You don't. In fact, I always recommend no special software is used. Just Windows Explorer or Finder. BUT...you do copy over the ENTIRE CARD. Once on the hard drive, you do not delete, rename or otherwise alter the contents of any of those folders.
The dropped frames you're seeing are common when you do not copy over the entire card. I am not aware of a fix.

OK, Dropped frames due to firewire+external hard drive+camcorder?

I have an iMac 2.4GHz , 1G Memory (I know this is less than ideal). I have a Firelite Smartdisk 120G plugged into iMac firewire. I am daisychaining my CanonZR500 into the external drive. When I capture video I have lots of dropped frames.
Anyone tell me why? Do I need a better external drive?
Thanks

Not all Canon cameras have connection issues, but hanging around this site I've come to recognize their ability to connect in FCP is the most problematic of all the camera brands. If you have a Canon camcorder, and can not get it to connect up with FCP, the following is a way to sort through the issues and get it to work. Some are elegant - some are ugly.
Before we go any farther -
• You should be using 'Firewire Basic' as the control protocol. If you aren't, go change it and try again.
• Also, verify that you have a solid installation of Quicktime. You may want to reinstall it using the 'delete receipts' method. Do a quick search here on the site - it is mentioned daily if not hourly.
With some confidence that the software installation and camera settings are correct ... the most direct solution is to purchase another, non-Canon device to use as your capturing machine. The Sony DSR-11 is highly recommended for DV work. A deck will save wear and tear on the camera's lightweight drive mechanism and will allow you to permanently connect a NTSC/PAL monitor for proper viewing. If you are working with HDV, you may have other issues ...
Beyond that, the path you take depends on the model of computer you own.
1. If you have a G5 tower or a MacPro, capture to a second internal drive with only the camera attached. If you need to move material to firewire drive, disconnect the camera. A second internal drive is quite inexpensive these days if you do not already have one.
2. If you have a G5 tower (PCI) MacPro (PCIe), G4 powerbook (PCMCIA) or MacBookPro (Expresscard 34) with an available slot, purchase the appropriate firewire card for the slot. Connect your camera to the card and you should be good to go. The new card creates a unique bus and will avoid collisions with the external drives.
3. If you do not have a slot or a second internal drive and you are stuck with the camera, welcome to the camera/drive shuffle.
• shut down and remove the external hard drive(s) from the system
• connect the camera directly to the firewire port of the computer
• start the camera then the computer
• capture to your internal (system) hard drive
• shut down the camera and computer
• disconnect the camera and reconnect the external hard drive(s)
• start hard drive(s) and computer
• move captured files to external hard drive(s)
• edit
If you output back to tape or wish to view your work on an external Video (NTSC or PAL) monitor, you need to set up the camera to use the firewire out as the A/DV converter or VTR - which means reversing the steps:
• copy the file back to the internal drive
• shut everything down
• disconnect the external drive(s)
• connect the camera to the firewire port (and the TV to the camera if needed)
• start the camera then the computer
• play the file.
One caveat here - You may have difficulty getting the file back to tape without dropping frames. Playing files off of the system drive is very demanding and they may have a hard time keeping up.
All in all, if you do not have the option for second bus (i.e. iMacs, eMacs, iBooks, MacBooks) you may want to think about a computer with expandable options next time.
There is the option of capturing using iMovie, but that brings on it's own set of problems and is not recommended.
Good luck.
x

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

When i am logging/ Capturing my mac is telling me that i am getting dropped frames. would i need to get a LaCie Hard Drive?

To be honest, I've had 2 Lacie drives crash out of 2 bought. That's not a good track record for me.
Your best bet (I'm a computer professional, for what it's worth):
Get a hard drive case or enclosure that supports firewire 800 and put your own PC hard drive (SATA for example) 7200rpm or higher hard drive into it.
Let me explain a bit more. External hard drive manufacturers often put no-name hard drives into fancy cases to cut costs and that's how they make a profit. I've have had nothing but problems with with these types of drives. (Like Lacie) You are much better off getting some type of decent drive enclosure and getting your own GOOD hard drive. I would highly recommend Seagate, I have NEVER had a problem with a Seagate drive in 20 years of owning PCs and Macs. Western Digital is also a good brand (though I had 1 crash). These are the types of drives you would put in your Mac Pro. You want to get an SATA hard drive.
I have owned several external cases where the case electronics fried, but the hard drives were still in good shape. Take the hard drive out, put it into a new case you're good to go!
For video you want to make sure that your hard drive case supports Firewire 800! This is mandatory.
My personal favorite, (and I own 5 of these) is Vantec's NexStar hard drive enclosure. They accept any SATA 3.5" drive (I bought mine from a company called ComputerStop). I have yet to have a single problem with any of them. They are solid aluminum casing, you can literally throw them into your backback, drop them on the floor and your hard drive is fairly well protected from impact damage (at least you won't break the case with anything short of a sledgehammer). I am currently looking at getting a second one of these:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/173
(My bad, this is an IDE case up to 750GB)
This the one you want:
http://www.vantecusa.com/gl/product/view_detail/354
As far as the hard drive, you can get a Seagate Baracuda drive 1TB at 7200rpm drive for about $60. The case and hard drive together, maybe a few over $100 for the whole thing. With shipping, and tax figure about $150.
Don't let the price fool you. It will rock.
Story: I got an iOmega "raid" case with two Seagate drives in it and the iOemga case fried, but the hard drives were still good. Fortunately, they were in two removable trays. I put them into two "rocketfish" hard drive cases almost 3 years ago and I am still using them every day today.
Moral of this story: It's the quality of the hard drive that matters, not what case it's in.
Is it hard to set up?
Not at all. You put the hard drive into a tray, (with Vantec case), screw it in. It only goes in 1 way. Plug in a power cable to the drive. Slide the tray into the case (carefully, don't munch the power cable!) and screw it in place. You can literally do it in 10 minutes or less. There are, of course instructions, but if you are reasonably clever, you can literally see what plugs into what just by looking at it.
Sorry for the long reply, but I have a lot of experience with external drives and I hope this helps others.
Finally, when you make it to the big time you can spend $400, get yourself a firewire RAID enclosure and you can upgrade to 4 external hard drives in 1 enclosure. Figure $800 for that set up, but you can go up to 12 TB of drive space with that, or up to 3TB if you are running redundant discs. But that's a whole other ballgame...
Peace.

Non Drop frame capture causing out of sync clip?

Hi, All,
I've been having trouble with sync issues on an hour long tape capture.
The material was captured from a Canon consumer DV cam (z80) using firewire into my powerbook g4. (The material on the dv tape was originally recorded in Video 8mm and transfered to the Canon via firewire from a modern Sony Digital 8 camera.)
The sync on the DV tape looks fine when I play it back through the Canon camera. So I'm guessing that I might be losing sync because the camera is dropping frames that don't want to be dropped. I tried to change the video capture settings to non drop frame (in the device control tab of FCP5's audio video settings preference window,) but as soon as I start the capture from the canon, the settings on my log capture window automatically revert back to drop frame. (I don't know this for a fact, but I do notice that the ":" in the timecode box turns back to ";" every time I start the capture.
Does this sound like it is, in fact, a drop frame problem? And if so, is there any hope of getting a canon consumer camcorder to capture at non drop frame rates?

Well, after trying most of the suggestions here, I did find a reasonably hassle free workaround to capturing the hour and fifteen minute footage of 8 bit 32 kHz video to FCP with minimal sync slippage over the length of the footage.
I finally gave up on capturing the material in FCP and instead hooked the canon z80 up to an old version of Toast Platinum 6 I had on my computer. Toast creates a raw quicktime movie file with the extension .dv. Toast then allows you to edit that quicktime file, add chapters, button pictures, etc. thereby making a new file to replace the raw QT it first created. After some experimentation, I discovered that the original raw QT file Toast creates can simply be dragged intact to the FCP browser window, where it becomes a clip with minimal sync problems. I would caution against trying to use the second improved QT file that Toast creates after you've edited your file, as this second QT movie seems less stable than the raw one it first creates.
A final caveat for Toast users. Make sure you set the preferences so that they don't DELETE the original file it creates. There are settings that will tell Toast to do just that either After a Day, After a Week, When You Close the Program or Never. I'd set that to Never, since it can be highly unpleasant to discover that your program has deleted the very file you were planning to work with.
Hope this is of some help.
Thanks to all who pitched in and offered suggestions. Your help has been invaluable!
I now mark this issue Solved. Or at least as Solved as I plan to get it!

Constantly dropping frames

I am randomly getting lots of dropped frames when recording with OnLocation on lengthy recording sessions (1-2 hours). Like, several seconds will be missing. Sometimes this happens frequently, sometimes (but rarely) not at all. And sometimes recording even stops, as Windows says its lost the connection to the camera.
I'm using OnLocation on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo. I've used it under new installations of XP and Vista with Boot Camp. I've tried recording to a 3rd partition setup as FAT32 or NTFS, as well as to the Macintosh partition with MacDrive. And I've tried two different firewire cables.
Sometimes the buffer bar will be full, or it will say the hard drive is not fast enough, but I want to say this isn't always the case (but I'm not 100% positive as I can't watch OnLocation the whole time I'm recording).
What could be the problem??
Thanks
Zach

Wow, Ultra on a MAC,,,, Are you recording to tape or direct to disk? Are you recording HDV? m2t files have a long GOP structure, only 2 I frames per second. this means if you drop one I frame you loose a half second of video. I would try using new tapes made for HDV and cleaning the tape heads. If your doing regular DV, then I'd say it would have to be the MAC, Bootcamp not working right with Ultra as almost any computer these days will record DV direct to disk or clean tape heads and new tape. Danny

Dropped Frames in the Xsan environment

Hello Everyone, I have just setup a SAN network and have been experiencing dropped frames when capturing HD Pro Res 422 on my two client computer at the same time. I have been successful capturing on one computer at a time and playing the same capture scratch footage on both systems at once with 5 streams of video playing on both system with effects, opacity changes and have experience no problems with that.
Let me backup and give all the information I can about our setup.
We did a clean install on a G5 with the latest version of Leopard and 3Gb of Ram for our primary MDC. We have 2 client computers (1 acting as the backup MDC) These computers are both Brand new G5's with 6Gb of Ram and Dual 3Ghz processors. All CPU's are Running the latest version of Leopard.
We are using Xsan 2.1 for the admin, a 16-drive Vtrak Promise RAID system for storage, and qlogic 5600 Sanbox for the Fiber Switch.
For RAID'ing the storage together, we following the Apple spec's for setting up our arrays in conjunction with the Promise Drives. We have 2 drives in RAID1 for our metadata LUN with additional drive tasked as a spare to this LUN. We then RAIDed 6 drives together in RAID 5 (3 from each RAID Controller), we then repeated this process to create 2-6 Drive LUNS. Out last drive was tasked to be the backup for both of these LUNS.
We setup our volume with the RAID 5 Drives Arrays to be Our Data (Video Capture) and the RAID 1 drive to store our Metadata and Journal Information. If any more info is needed to help you answer my issue, please let me know and I'll answer you as best I can.
In my testing of the system, I setup our two client computers to capture as we would in a Real World 2-editor project. Everything was going fine until I tried to capture on both systems at the same time with the PRO Res 422 HQ codec. Am I pushing the system too hard? I wouldn't think so as two streams of that footage should be topping out at 50-60mb per sec, and with my AJA speed Test I am getting write speeds of 300mb per sec and read speeds of 400 mb per sec.
Also in my Vtrak Promise Logs, I see a "Entering Critical Mode" warning just as the dropped frames occur.
There is also no consistent point at which the dropped frames occur, sometimes it's 30 seconds in, sometimes 15 minutes in, and both systems drop the frames at the same point one system never keeps on going if the other drops frames.
In my Xsan Admin I have the folders that I am capturing to set to the "Video" affinity so I know that the footage should be headed to my Raid 5 drives.
Sorry about the long post, just wanted to give as much info as I could on the first go around, any help is greatly appreciated! I'll be working this problem all day tomorrow, Hope to have the system up and running next week, but I want to really test this out as much as I can in the meantime, thanks in advance!!
-Casey

Just wanted to report that the dropped frames issue has been solved for the time being.
I contacted Promise Support and in viewing the logs discovered we had a faulty drive, even though we had a backup drive tasked to the array where the bad drive wasm we had PDM enabled on each array so the Promise Tech guy said that would lead to performance issues.
So even though the SAN would work, if you put a lot of stress on it, it would fail. So here's what we did:
1. Initialized the fauly drive and tasked it as the spare to the new Metadata LUN
2. Disabled PDM on each array
3. Hook up fiber connectivity between previously empty ports on our Promise Box to our fiber switch.
I have been capturing 2 streams of HD Pro Res 422 HQ for the past 30 minutes on both systems with no issues,
I really want to put the system through the wringer and make sure our current setup can handle some demanding stresses. Is there a good test that anyone can recommend? We only have 2 clients on our SAN.

Capturing non-drop-frame as drop-frame??

I have to capture a bunch of amateur tapes shot with various cameras. Ultimate destination is NTSC DV. I have a sense that if I capture the non-drop-frame in a standard NTSC DV setup that I might have some buggy problems. Or at least the batch capture is telling me so.
I've never come across this problem before. What should I do? I'm just trying to build a movie database for a CEO using all the stuff he's collected from various sources - wanting all the captured material to be easily editable in FCP.
Any help would be most appreciated,
Ben

Well, after trying most of the suggestions here, I did find a reasonably hassle free workaround to capturing the hour and fifteen minute footage of 8 bit 32 kHz video to FCP with minimal sync slippage over the length of the footage.
I finally gave up on capturing the material in FCP and instead hooked the canon z80 up to an old version of Toast Platinum 6 I had on my computer. Toast creates a raw quicktime movie file with the extension .dv. Toast then allows you to edit that quicktime file, add chapters, button pictures, etc. thereby making a new file to replace the raw QT it first created. After some experimentation, I discovered that the original raw QT file Toast creates can simply be dragged intact to the FCP browser window, where it becomes a clip with minimal sync problems. I would caution against trying to use the second improved QT file that Toast creates after you've edited your file, as this second QT movie seems less stable than the raw one it first creates.
A final caveat for Toast users. Make sure you set the preferences so that they don't DELETE the original file it creates. There are settings that will tell Toast to do just that either After a Day, After a Week, When You Close the Program or Never. I'd set that to Never, since it can be highly unpleasant to discover that your program has deleted the very file you were planning to work with.
Hope this is of some help.
Thanks to all who pitched in and offered suggestions. Your help has been invaluable!
I now mark this issue Solved. Or at least as Solved as I plan to get it!

Drop Frame and Non Drop Frame

Does QuickTime Pro 7 allow you to select between drop frame and non-drop frame?

I don't understand your question.
QuickTime Player will automatically reduce the implied frame rate to maintain the file playing. You can observe this by viewing any HD movie trailer on a non supported OS.
Frame rate drops so much that the file is nearly not viewable yet the audio portion continues to play back without issue.
The QuickTime author can't set these parameters and QuickTime Pro users can override the issue by selecting to "Play All Frames". This can quickly bring playback to its knees on older systems but it will not drop any frame during playback. It may take two days to view each frame of a 1080 HD movie trailer on a G3 but you should see each one.

Dropped Frames -- Releted to Capture?

I was quickly working on a project for old friends, which I have now easily been able to finish to satisfaction, but got some dropped frames warnings during the process, which it did not hurt to ignore. Now I want to analyze why this happened?
I had some previously footage on DV tape that had been copied from VHS, via VCR to camcorder in VTR mode -- no problem with these in FCP, utilizing In/Out timecodes. However I had to quickly review a lot more old VHS tapes, and chose to use my Canopus ADCV 110 to allow for rapid review and selective capture. Furthermore, it seemed much easier to do this in iMovie HD, capture selectively, and then export as QT dv, and import into FCP. All this seemed to work, and I could edit. But exclusive to those clips captured in iMovie and exported, I started to get this warning about dropped frames.
Was this caused by the path of capture/export directly, or did the fact that I exported to the same scratch disk drive as those clips captured directly in FCP matter? Although using my new Mac Pro, I was still using my LaCie FW 800 disk as capture scratch. Is it the lack of timecodes on those assets captured via the Canopus, and should I expect the same issues if I capture via the Canopus, but in FCP? Part of the reason I used iMovie to capture, was I couldn't figure out how to monitor the sound from the VCR, which had no headphone jack, if reviewing via the Canopus and FCP.
I love the Canopus, but have not made extensive use of it in this situation. However, I believe it actually gave better quality than "remastering" to DV tape, first, btw.
Ernie

I have also come to the same conclusion. I've been capturing video just fine and now I get this "dropped frames during capture" error message.
SAME computer
SAME external 7200 rpm drive for capture
SAME fire-wire cable
SAME camcorder
SAME mini-dv tape
I upgraded to OS 10.4.9 and iTunes 7.1.1 a few days ago and only now am I receiving this error message. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Dropped frames on Flash playback

so we've heard the grumblings from Steve Jobs about the inefficiency of Flash and that's why Apple won't let it work on iPhones/iPods and apparently the iPad. Yesterday in a web interview someone from Adobe conceded that Flash uses more resources when running on a Mac than a PC. After this long intro, my question. I have a white 24 inch iMac (2.16 Ghz) and for the past several months I have noticed it struggles to play Flash content in full screen mode (audio is fine, but video drops frames and sometimes lags slightly behind audio). I have noticed this on Hulu and other sites that use Flash for video. There are no issues with youtube, iTunes or other full screen video applications. Anyone else experience this issue? Any work around?

HI Michael,
Try uninstalling then reinstalling a fresh copy of the Flash Player plugin.
Uninstall Flash
Install Flash
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Empty Cache. When you are done with that...
From the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari / Reset Safari. Select the top 5 buttons and click Reset.
Since you are running Snow Leopard, make sure Safari is running in 32-bit mode, not 64. Right or control click the Safari icon in the Applications folder, then click: Get Info In the Get Info window click the black disclosure triangle next to General so it faces down. Select 32 bit mode. Also, (in that same window) make sure *Safari is NOT running in Rosetta*.
Web pages now include a small icon or 'favicon' which is visible in the address bar and next to bookmarks. These icons take up disk space and slow Safari down. It is possible to erase the icons from your computer and start fresh. *To delete Safari's icon cache using the Finder, open your user folder, navigate to ~/Library/Safari/ and move this file "webpageIcons.db to the Trash.
Then repair disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
Carolyn

Dropped frames on capture

FCP 4.5
last week all workflow was fine.
yesterday (saturday) I could NOT even capture 1 minute of DV video without aborting after 20 seconds due to dropped frames. I wiped a drive clean thinking too much fragmentation. The only thing that changed is I updated OS from 10.4.8 to 10.4.9 when it came out. I could however capture my DV using iMovie, export it, and work as normal in FCP. I hope FCP v6 comes out soon like at NAB next month and I get back to normalcy.

What I really want to do is go back to the previous version of Quicktime I was using (7.13) -- and I can't. I have deleted everything even resembling Quicktime from my system, as well as all the .plist files and prefs, and yet the 7.13 installer will not install; it says that I have a newer version (7.15) installed. Where else does Apple hide Quicktime prefs information?
Re-installing 7.15 did NOT solve the problem. Here are some more details:
When capturing from Final Cut Pro and iMovie, I get 50 or 51-frame gaps. Audio continues to be captured, only the video cuts out. Each gap seems to be 40 to 60 seconds apart. These gaps are actual holes in the data. Cinema Tools diagnoses the clips as damaged.
I removed the camera from the equation by using a different camera for capture.
I removed the media from the equation by using another DV cassette that I recorded recently and was able to capture from (last week) with 100% success.
I don't think QT is a factor either, because I deleted and removed all QT software and rebooted, and FCP still runs and still has the problem. I don't think QT is used unless you actually export from FCP.

What am I doing wrong? Dropped frames on a 1.4MB Quicktime file?

I am new to all this and get more confused by the day.
So, it looks like HD express runs and is supported on Macbook, so, why is just importing a 1.4MB quicktime file plays fine in preview, but drops frames in canvas? Having used PC programs I am not used to these kinds of problems and wonder if I have something set up wrong!
I have external HD and 2 GB DDR.
The demo flash preview on the website makes it look like you can do all sort of things!
I also set up the system correct, at least I think I did! *User Settings, Program Settings, etc.
PS the file is 18 seconds long...
Thanks!

The standard QT file from the net? What's that? Every file on the net seems different. Sorenson, Flash Video, H.264. What does item properties say the clip is exactly? Most of these compressed formats don't play back in vieo editing applications properly. They're delivery formats not intended for production. FCE is DV and HDV only video editing application. Those are the formats it works with.

FMLE 3.2 capturing fewer frames after 8 hours of recording but no 'dropped frames' reported

A client of ours is capturing 20x live streams via FMLECMD directly to F4V files (15min chunks) for ~21 hours a day. They're finding that after approx 8 hours of recording, FMLE gradually reduces the number of frames it's recording & the resulting files have very choppy playback (no dropped frames are reported). It eventually crashes on most of the machines before completing a day's work. Some machines also display a C++ error message on crash whereas others just freeze up.
One PC was set to capture a blank input & doesn’t exhibit this behaviour ie captures at the initial/specified framerate even 20hrs in. Please see the profile xml below.
The spec of the capture workstations is:
HP Z200 i3 i3-540/3.06GHz/2GB/160GB Hard Drive/DVD-Writer/ Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD/Windows 7 Professional
Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro in each, running Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder 3.2 (scripted to launch via CLI with no preview). These PCs are fresh out-of-the-box & have never been online.
As an immediate/short-term workaround, we've set a restart interval for FMLE of 5 hours but this compromises the recordings as the stop/start process obviously results in a loss of recording time & requires manual file renaming. Please note, none of the machines are streaming - just capturing locally to F4V.
--- Profile XML ---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<flashmedialiveencoder_profile>
<preset>
<name>Custom</name>
<description></description>
</preset>
<capture>
<video>
<device>Decklink Video Capture</device>
<crossbar_input>2</crossbar_input>
<frame_rate>25.00</frame_rate>
<size>
<width>720</width>
<height>576</height>
</size>
</video>
<audio>
<device>Decklink Audio Capture</device>
<crossbar_input>0</crossbar_input>
<sample_rate>22050</sample_rate>
<channels>1</channels>
<input_volume>75</input_volume>
</audio>
<timecode>
<frame_rate>5</frame_rate>
<systemtimecode>true</systemtimecode>
<devicetimecode>
<enable>false</enable>
<vertical_line_no>16</vertical_line_no>
<burn>false</burn>
<row>Bottom</row>
<column>Left</column>
</devicetimecode>
</timecode>
</capture>
<process>
<video>
<preserve_aspect></preserve_aspect>
</video>
</process>
<encode>
<video>
<format>H.264</format>
<datarate>200;</datarate>
<outputsize>720x576;</outputsize>
<advanced>
<profile>Main</profile>
<level>3.0</level>
<keyframe_frequency>5 Seconds</keyframe_frequency>
</advanced>
<autoadjust>
<enable>false</enable>
<maxbuffersize>1</maxbuffersize>
<dropframes>
<enable>false</enable>
</dropframes>
<degradequality>
<enable>false</enable>
<minvideobitrate></minvideobitrate>
<preservepfq>false</preservepfq>
</degradequality>
</autoadjust>
</video>
<audio>
<format>MP3</format>
<datarate>48</datarate>
</audio>
</encode>
<restartinterval>
<days>1</days>
<hours>5</hours>
<minutes>00</minutes>
</restartinterval>
<reconnectinterval>
<attempts></attempts>
<interval></interval>
</reconnectinterval>
<output>
<file>
<limitbysize>
<enable>false</enable>
<size>10</size>
</limitbysize>
<limitbyduration>
<enable>true</enable>
<hours>0</hours>
<minutes>15</minutes>
</limitbyduration>
<path>C:\VideoServer\XXX\XXXXX.f4v</path>
</file>
</output>
<metadata>
<entry>
<key>author</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>copyright</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>description</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>keywords</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>rating</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>title</key>
<value></value>
</entry>
</metadata>
<log>
<level>100</level>
<directory>C:\logs</directory>
</log>
</flashmedialiveencoder_profile>

The video framerate is 25fps. Timecode is embedded every 5 frames.
Capture starts at 25fps & continues capturing at that rate until around 8
hours. After which it gradually reduces the captured framerate till it
crashes or completes. This behaviour is exhibited on all 20 Pcs. The CLI
reports no dropped frames at all.

Why am I suddenly getting a "Dropped Frames" error?

Hi,
For two years I was working on a large project in FCP 6 where I was able to do quite a bit of work without ever getting "dropped frames." Recently I deleted this entire project and loaded footage for a MUCH smaller project. This current project is MUCH less demanding. Fewer effects, fewer timelines to work with. Same exact system. Nothing has changed... except now... the mos rudimentary effects will give me dropped-frames upon playback. I know I can toggle a playback settings but how in the world is this suddenly necessary with a project that is 5% as demanding as my previous project??
In particular, the dropped-frames occur when I'm...
* generating basic text and adding a fade to the text
* cropping part of one shot
The specs are the following:
+ MacPro 2.8gb 8-core, 16gb RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.4, four internal hard drives at 500gb each
+ My OS and the FCP program are on Drive 1
+ My audio is on Drive 2
+ My visuals are on Drive 3
+ My FCP file and the render files are on Drive 4
+ The project itself is using footage from a Sony EX1 camera. I'm using audio from AIFF files. The progrmam is 2 minutes in duration. I'm using very little effects at all. 1 track of video. Four tracks of audio.
What's going? Why am I now, with this new/smaller project, suddenly getting dropped frames? Was the deletion process the culprit? What can I do?
Thanks,
Shanked

Download and run the demo version of iDefrag : http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
Click the drive in question wait for it to build the map then switch to the tab labelled "Files" at the bottom of the window. Sort by #Fragments and the highest will be likely culprits. If you do buy this software change the algorithm to "Optimize" for best results for video. Run it using default settings for the rest of it.
For anyone else reading this I DO NOT recommend using defrag tools on the system drive or a RAID drive. This WILL make things worse for you. Only for use on single drive scenarios. The best way to defrag a RAID array is to move the files off to another drive, wipe the RAID clean then transfer the files back again (You can do this for any file system to improve performance). This will sort the files out again. OSX manages the rest until there is only 10% of your drive left (depending on how much deleting and writing of files happens in between - it's that which cause fragmentation).
In terms of the 'size' issue (which you have no real issue with) I guessed that you meant the duration and complexity of your sequences. It's true that sometimes if you have a lot of sequences open these will use up valuable RAM (as FCP is only 32bit it can only utilize 3GB of RAM at most) and so when it is trying to buffer, cache and output the video it can trip over itself. But your current problem is definitely down to dataflow off the drive and into FCP in time to decode and display the next frame. If it can't do it in time (within 0.03-0.04 seconds) then if detects an error and because you are in SafeRT mode it stops playback and displays the Dropped Frame error window.
Pi

Deleting Drop Frames these days?

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