FCP HD Filling up G-Raid completely and crashing on capture
Help! I'm losing my rag with this!!
I am running the first version of FCP HD on a Dual 2gb G5, capturing Analogue video through an ADVC110 Firewire unit.
Every time I try to capture the G-Raid fills up completely and the the FCP itself crashes. The only way to fix the machine is to reboot it and delete the massive Scratch Cache created on the external drive.
I have tried:
correct easy setup
limiting the total time of captured clips
limiting the total size of captured clips
Can anyone help?? Thanks in advance
Alex
Could be a FW device conflict. How are you setup for capture... drive into one port ADVC into another?
What happens if you disconnect the FW drive and try to capture directly to the system drive. If that works you may have to go that way and then transfer the footage to the FW drive for editing.
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