Dropped Frame Error Message During Playback in Snow Leopard

I have FCE 4.0.1 and I just recently upgraded to 10.6.1 and now I keep getting these error messages during playback saying Dropped Frames. Its telling me to try lowering my audio playback quality, increase my ram, etc.. Before I upgraded to Snow Leopard I never got these errors. I have a 8 core Mac Pro with more than enough ram and hard drive space and again this wasn't happening until I upgraded. Can someone assist and tell me why this is happening and what can fix this issue.

You can try trashing your preferences and rebooting and repairing permissions and running Disk Utility, the usual maintenance suggestions, but I think the real issue is the OS and software installation, and the only way to fix that is to redo it.

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Drop frame error message during playback

HELP! There is absolutely NO reason this should be happening. My time line will playback for about a minute or two and I get this error message about dropped frames (lower your real-time playback, close open sequences, etc. blah, blah).
I'm editing a HD 720P60fps project, with no files to render. My output settings are correct for my HD flat screen and my reference monitor. I'm using a Matrox MXo2 box for my A/V input/output, with the latest version of software, etc. SDI out to my reference and HDMI to my Panasonic Plasma.
I'm totally stumped at this point. any help will do. Usually easy set-up works every time, but it hasn't so far...thanks.
I have an Intel G5 Mac. Version 10.5.6 of Leopard. 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor. 10 GB of 800 Mhz ram.

You gave us a lot of information, but not where the media is stored. What sort of hard drives are you storing this media on? That is a HUGE factor in dropped frames issues.
EDIT: OOP...this didn't go thru fast enough...hee..
Shane
Message was edited by: Bela Legosi

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If you have FCPX (10) you can upgrade for free at the MacApp Store.
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I recently upgraded to FCP 6 and I'm getting error messages when playing back video from my timeline saying there are DROPPED FRAMES. Sometimes it comes up with RED lettering and I get worried -- like my system is gonna crash or something. Should I be worried?
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I'm editing several DVCPROHD 720p60 projects and cutting them in FCStudio is like butter on a Dual 2 G5 connected to a FW800 G-Raid. I needed to time remap a clip and lo and behold, some dropped frame errors. Recreated and retimed several times with the same error. Dropping down the playback quality fixes this but wondering if it would be a normal occurance to see this with DVCPRO HD footage.
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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?
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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.
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