Fcpx choppy editing/ frames dropping

Hello, i am using a 15" macbook pro with a i7 processor and 4gb of RAM. While using fcpx, i always drop frames during editing and it is very choppy. Any suggestions such as settings or anything?

MPEG-4 is not a supported format. This media needs to be converted before being used in FCP. You can use Compressor or MPEG Streamclip. High data rate, high frame rate, HD media requires a fast computer and fast drives for good playback.

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The error message:
Aborted ETT/PTV – Dropped Frames
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- Increasing the speed of your system and/or disk drives and/or network connection.
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I tried all the fixes stated above and the problem is not fixed.
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FCPX XML import error "edit frame boundary"

Hello,
I'm attemting to import an XML file into FCPX from Davinci Resolve and am continually getting an error log message which contains the following: "the item is not on an edit frame boundary." I'm working with raw CDNG files from a 5D Mark III in Resolve and trying to export quicktime files in a roundtrip workflow.
I'm working on a 23.976 timeline and everything appears to be set up correctly in Resolve. It exports the quicktime files and the XML file. When I import the XML into FCPX, the error code appears (see below). The new clips appear in a new event and a project is created, but the project settings have changed from "1920 x 818" to "1280 x 720" and the frame rate has changed from 23.976 to 60p. These settings cannot be modified in the project settings. I can see the new timeline but it doesn't play normally. I think it has something to do with a framerate mismatch or timecode problem, but I'm not sure, I've checked everything I can think of. Incidentally, the other side of the workflow (exporting XML from FCPX to Resolve) works just fine. Really hoping to be able to take a graded timeline back into Final Cut for finishing. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Hi,
You open XML file you will see xml file will contain many task tag <Tag>
<Task>
<UID>1</UID>
<ID>1</ID>
<Name>task1</Name>
<Active>1</Active>
<Manual>1</Manual>
<Type>0</Type>
<IsNull>0</IsNull>
Every task will start with <Task> and task Name will come as <Name>task1</Name>. You can find all the line with <Name>task1</Name> then you can copy all the task in excel truncate <Name> and <Name>
then you will have only name of the task then in the 2nd column of the excel you can paste tasks from MPP fiel then you can check easily which task is not present in the xml file.
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Severe frame dropping with Mac QT export.

I've noticed some weird behavior of Quicktime Pro (mac version).
Quicktime(mac) is not able to handle video files exported by QT itself correctly.
Further converting QT MPEG4 videos with QT(mac) will generate choppy videos, which appears to have some frames dropped.
I've prepared a sample video below.
Source: http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/source.mp4
Codec: MPEG4/AVC H.264
The above video file can be played back smoothly with QT in both Mac and Windows. However viewing the video frame-by-frame (with mouse scroll) in QT(mac) reveals that QT is dropping about half of the frame.
(say from 10F to 35F, all odd-numbered frames were skipped.)
If the above video is exported again with QT pro in mac, the product will be half of the actual frame rate (half were dropped).
Converted by QT(mac): http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/mac.mp4
Converted by QT(win): http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/windows.mp4
The video converted under Windows by QT-pro is doing fine, no frame drop was observed.
I've already tried updating QT, reinstalling QT, but no luck.
Does anyone know what would be the cause, and can it be solved?

Yes they are correct now. Their file size is different.
Windows version: 9,248,985 bytes
Link:http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/windows.mp4
Mac version: 9,963,051 bytes
Link: http://bdweb.no-ip.com/documents/qt_sample/mac.mp4
I have no idea why they have such a huge discrepancy, but on second thought, it isn't THAT strange when I saw the same software encodes the video in such a different manner. Strange still!
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Transitions double 1st frame/drop last frame: a solution

I have found that Transitions in iMovie 5 are problematic. The first frame in a Transition doubles and the last frame drops out. This is not noticeable in a slideshow but can be very noticeable in an exported video.
Transitions cannot be edited frame by frame unless one exports video out to a camera and then imports it back into iMovie. The original clips and transitions are now seamless clips. One can delete extra frames and then find and import the missing frames from original sources. HOWEVER, this process is incredibly frustrating and time consuming.
THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET INTERESTING.
To avoid the above, I thought I would add textless Titles over a few key clips and transitions where the glitching is most obvious. I had noticed that Titles longer than the clip they were inserted into, merge together the clip with its transition and following clip.
i.e.,
1. DEselect 'Over black' in the titles window.
2. Select a title format and then a length longer than the 'glitched' transition.
3. Split the clip so that the Title can be inserted.
4. Insert a TEXTLESS Title that spands the clip, transition and into the next clip.
5. Then edit out duplicate frames and insert missing frames from the the now 'single' clip.
STILL just a piecemeal. STILL labour intensive.
THIS IS WHERE IT GETS MORE INTERESTING.
I tested this on a couple of clips and, LO AND BEHOLD, 'Title-merging' a clip with its transition and following clip results in the duplicated first frame of the transition DISAPPEARING and the previously dropped frame of the transition, REAPPEARING. A fix.
One could blanket a video with long textless Titles (i.e., 45 seconds at a time with Rolling Credits) to fix the transition glitches.
I know that this is not a great solution, but it does allow me to export video with the quality I need.
Is there a better solution? (I find it ironic that years later, iMovie 2.1.2 is still, for me, the most successful of all the iMovie applications.)

the duplicated and dropped frames move to the beginning and end of the added short (4 seconds, for example) texless title. Using a longer title (10 seconds, for example) fixed also this.
if I understand your original reply correctly, it is important that the blanket transition ends in the middle of a clip and not a transition.
In my tests I used a blanket title (did you invent this descriptive word?!) that spans some of the previous clip (I split it 1-2 seconds before the transition so I could add the blanket title), the transition and some (1-2 seconds) of the next clip.
If it ends in a transition, the transition plays and then the ORIGINAL clip plays, duplicating the first part of the clip.
I didn't quite follow. I just tried this with a 30 frame transition. Then I added a 1:15 blanket title 1:00 before the transition (so the blanket title ended in the middle of the transition). Result: The first frame of the blanket titles was duplicated and the last frame of the blanket title was dropped. Otherwise it played as expected.
shift select the clips to establish a total length of the video clips and them add a title that ends just inside the last clip.
Yes, I did just that to measure how long a title was needed. In my tests it seemed that it was important that the blanket title wasn't very short (<4 seconds) because then the problem frames were just moved to affect the title. Using a longer blanket title (10 seconds) seemed to fix the problem for both the transition AND the blanket title.
<div class="jive-quote">With a textless title blanketing an entire video, my COMPRESSION TIME to Quicktime is incredibly shortened (1/3 to 1/2 the time).
That's interesting. I've noticed that simple projects (i.e. not much cuts) export faster than real time to Full Quality .dv. But complex projects take MUCH longer to export as .dv. AFAIR this didn't matter in iMovie 1-4. Maybe the blanket title simplifies the relevant parts of the project?
[sigh] I wish we didn't need to be aware of the plethora of obscure gotchas and workarounds like this. I don't expect there to be an iMovie HD 5 update anymore. I guess some bugs will be fixed and some brand new bugs will be introduced in v6.
The same thing happened with iMovie 4 bugs. ...So this time I thought to quickly gather AND report all iMovie 5 bugs to Apple so they could quickly fix them during the first months. ...but it seems that the iLife team just isn't granted enough resources to fix them. Many known old bugs are again just described in the knowledgebase articles.

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4209 Frames Dropped - 2 minutes of preview

I'm pretty sure I didn't used to have this problem, just playing back video in the program window, but now suddenly, it seems PP6 can't playback HD video in the program window / preview. Don't even bother trying to scrub through the video, that's a disaster.
So, to comply with the guidelines, here is everything I know about the situation. I'm even happy to post the raw footage if you think it would help.
What version of Premiere Pro? 6.02
Have you installed the recent updates? Yes, the updater indicates no updates available
What operating system? Mac OSX v10.8.3
What type of computer? Macbook Pro Retina, 2.6GHz Intel Core i7, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3 Ram
What type of video card? NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Hard drive? Solid State Drive
What kind(s) of source footage?
File Path: <SNIP>/AVCHD/BDMV/STREAM/00043.MTS
Type: MPEG Movie
File Size: 1.3 GB
Image Size: 1920 x 1080
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz - compressed - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
Total Duration: 00:08:03:00
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Project / Sequence type: I made the sequence by taking the footage and dragging it to new sequence, so the sequence would be the exact type of the source footage. The footage is of panning horizontally of a lake with mountains in the background. It has audio, but I don't play it back.
If you are getting error message(s), what is the full text of the error message(s)? Of the 8 minutes of source video, I took a 2 minute 20 second cut. Put it into the sequence by itself, no effects, no zooming, NO alterations of any kind. Put the marker at the beginning and let it play in the program window at full resolution. I got 4209 frames dropped in those 2.5 minutes
What were you doing when the problem occurred? Nothing else was running, it was after a fresh reboot, only started PP6. Just playing back the video at regular speed with no alterations.
Has this ever worked before? I've edited HD video before, about 3 months ago, I didn't seem to recall this issue.
What other software are you running? Little snitch network monitor, and a CPU monitor
Do you have any third-party effects or codecs installed? No
Tell us about your computer hardware. Be especially certain to tell us about third-party I/O hardware (e.g., AJA, Matrox, Blackmagic, MOTU). See above, it's a MacBook Pro, so I can't really add anything to it.
Are you using Mercury Playback Engine GPU Acceleration? Yes. I have turned off the "enable graphics switching" in the power section. I have tried all 3, software, CUDA and OpenCL, usually leaving it on CUDA.
CUDA Drivers? CUDA Driver Version: 5.0.59, no newer update is available
GPU Driver Version? 8.10.44 304.10.65f03
Does the problem only happen with your final output, with previews, or both? Previews, I haven't bothered to try to render it out. I'm still trying to edit the project together.
What else?
Sometimes I get an all RED screen in place of the footage in the program view
I notice that one core is indicated to go FULL red / usage just before and during frame drops, the other 7 cores are green / unused
This happens the most with resolution set to FULL, but also occurs in 1/2 and 1/4 resolution.
Scrubbing through the video is useless
The audio (when I do have it enabled) never drops

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To those of you who have been struggling with the AVHCD bug and waiting for months to a year to use Adobe Premiere to its full potential... If you don't already know...
Adobe CC introduced another major bug!
I have been following threads about the AVHCD bug for months so I felt an obligation to inform the community members I have suffered alongside.
I am also trying to inform you because Adobe won't. Yet again, they are disastrously failing to inform customers of avoidable problems.
If you upgraded to Premiere CC to fix the AVHCD problem, you could be out of the frying pan and into the fire like I was.
The new bug is described in this thread. http://forums.adobe.com/message/5490602#5490602
Bug Overview:
After saving multicam edits, and reopening a project, multicam edits may loose their link to the location in a clip. The result is that every angle switch restarts at the beginning of a clip. Many of us have lost hours of work like this. The problem may ocurr at any point and ruin work performed prior upon saving and re-opening.
There is a work around described on the thread above to prevent the problem from occurring, but once it does, a project is lost and can only revert to a backup.
I hope this spares some of you the trouble and loss of being struck by the second bug in a row like I was.
I also hope to enlist the help of some of you who would like to join me in demanding that Adobe communicate more openly with their customers.
Again, many people have also been hurt by Adobe's failure to inform customers of a huge problem that they knew about prior to the release of Premiere CC.
Like the AVHCD bug, so many of us could have been spared weeks to months of lost wages and clients if Adobe simply informed Premiere users that there were some issues with the update. As people could have stayed with CS5 for a while to avoid the AVHCD bug, users on this thread could have stayed with CS6 for a while until the Multicam bug was fixed, if they needed that feature.
On that thread, I posted the request I quoted below. Please join us in demanding greater responsibility for communication from Adobe.
please join me in making a feature request:
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What is this error: "The item is not on an edit frame boundary."?

I exported XML from one computer and imported into another and got the message: Final Cut Pro encountered an error importing the XML file. The error log says: "The item is not on an edit frame boundary (durations+"80679599/3000000s": /fcpxml{1}/project{1} /clip[934]/video[1]/@duration). What does this mean???? I searched discussions and found no mention of an error or anything else having to do with edit frame foundaries.
The library involved was copied to another computer, the project edited, and exported as XML back to the original computer. With the above error message. All the event clips came across fine, but the 4 projects that were in the Event did not import back to the original computer.
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Mac OS 10.9.2
FCPX 10.1.1
Source material in "Original" H.264 format. Edit format is native format.
Does this mean I have to use all I frame format to use XML import/export??
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Hi,
I searched for the similar error log, the issue is finally solved by adding more drive space even though they though there is plenty space already.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/d06c9b2c-0bc1-44c6-b83a-2dc0b70936c4/the-item-could-not-be-indexed-successfully-because-the-item-failed-in-the-indexing-subsystem?forum=sharepointsearch
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/480369-the-item-could-not-be-indexed-successfully
From your decription, the issue seems to occur to your full crawl. There is one point in best practise for crawling:
Run full crawls only when it is necessary, the reasons to do a full crawl are as below:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219577.aspx#Plan_full_crawl
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn535606.aspx
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Edit frame in external editor?

Sorry for the newbie question. Is there an easy way to edit frames in an external editor (Photoshop, whatever)?
I have some video take from film that has some scratches I'd like to clean up. It's only a handful of frames, so it would be easy to do in a photo editor. I suppose I could export a frame or frame sequence, edit them, and import them back in. The problem is that I'd need to match up the stills to their original frames, make the the right length, etc. Not impossible, but certainly not simple. I'm hoping there's an easier way?
By the way, I tried the manual "object remover" method, which involves a cloned clip placed over the clip in question, and cropping/transforming to cover the scratch with a section from somewhere else, but in this particular instance there's no easy place to get a cover-up section that matches. (Hope that made sense.)
Ideas?
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Thanks for the reply. I have SliceX, but as I mentioned in my post, for these particular videos, there's no good area from which to clone. I suppose it would be possible, but *very* tedious to get the selection that exact. Perhaps I'm just not coordinated enough.
I've discovered a workflow which works well for me - easier than I thought it would be. I'll show it here, in case it helps anyone else:
Isolate the frames in question by using the Blade tool and separating them into their own section - this makes lining up the result frames easier when you paste them back in.
Export the section as a frame sequence.
Import the frames in iPhoto. I know, this sounds silly, but actually, iPhoto's Touchup tool is awesome for tasks like this. Way better (to me) than Adobe Photoshop Elements.
In iPhoto, when you start editing a frame, it has a strip at the bottom showing all the frames, and it's easy to switch between frames. This makes it easy to verify your touchups against the other frames.
When done, I choose to drag the files from iPhoto to a folder. I suppose you could also import them inside FCPX from its reference to iPhoto - but this seemed easier to me. Perhaps I'm wrong - I will try the other way next time.
iPhoto does reduce the image quality slightly - I'm guessing this, since the file sizes are much smaller. But for what I'm working on, it's not noticeable.
I drag the photos back into the Event, and into the original timeline.
I select all of them, hit Ctrl+D and change the duration to 1 frame.
Voila! Done. Not so hard after all. I'm amazed that iPhoto makes this so easy.
The only thing that iPhoto does that makes this a slightly longer process, is that when you switch from frame to frame, it resets the Zoom & Pan, and un-selects the Touchup tool. Not that big a deal, but if you've zoomed and panned to a specific place, it would be nice if all the frames opened up the same way, so you can check your results against the other frames. I wonder if Adobe Photoshop Elements does this - I'll have to check. As I said, not the end of the world. But *so* close to perfection...
All in all, I can remove a scratch from, say, 15 frames, pretty quickly. I'll have to time myself next time I do this, now that I've got the workflow down.
Dan

Frames drop constantly, how can I fix it?

I have FCPX, mountain lion, and a 1920x1080/60p Sony camera, and my frames drop on all my videos.

Probably better to post in the FCP-X forum, here.
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I have recently purchased a new Sony 32" LCD TV that only has supports a frame rate of 50Hz. However, this means that when I attach my macbook via a VGA cable to the TV to playback things on my Mac every few minutes the frame drops off for a few seconds and the screen goes blank saying there is no signal and then the picture reappears (the sound is not effected).
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I have looked at iMovie 11 which has a Precision Editor which would work to edit as I want but for that I would have to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard which I don't want. It would export H264.
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How can I edit these videos precisely and produce H264? Is there another application which would work better (and doesn't cost a fortune).
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Frame dropping when Chinese Pinyin-10 key Keyboard pops up

Almost all the Apps are effected by this issue in iOS 8.1, even you creating a new message can cause this noticable frame drop when Chinese Pinyin-10 key keyboard pops up.
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I have to use full keyboard instead now. Please fix this.

Kurtis614 wrote:
I bought my device from China-Unicom.
Thanks, I was curious because I think only devices bought in china have the Chinese Pinyin 10 keyboard, it is missing for everyone else.

Frame-Dropping Issue.

Hello, this is my first post, and I have a Frame-Dropping issue.
I am making a video on FCP and during playback, when I reach the end of the video (there is still audio in the background), it says there are some dropped frames. I tried switching from Safe RT to Unlimited RT and back again... many times. But when I start the playback from a second or two from the end of the video, it works fine. Can someone help me?
Many thanks in advance.

#12 Dropped frames on capture/playback
Shane's Stock Answer #12: Dropped frames on capture/playback
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58640
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.
4) Trash the FCP preference files. Use FCP Rescue available here:
http://www.fcprescue.com
5) Make sure that the hard drives you are capturing to are fast enough to handle the footage being captured to it. A regular firewire 400 drive cannot capture uncompressed HD, or even uncompressed standard definition. A RAID array of drives might be in order for these formats.
Shane

How frame drop test is executed using PQA in TestStand ?

Can someone shed some light on the frame drop test which is executed using PQA in TestStand ? Also, what is the use of reference stream and trigger in the frame drop test ?
According to the manual, the Dropped Frame processor computes the difference in pixels between consecutive frames. So, in this scenario, how does the processor compare the framedrop of the test stream with reference stream (if any).
Thanks

Hello Enigma123
The Dropped Frames processor returns a metric that is the average of the absolute difference between each pixel in a frame compared to its following frame. Depending on scene transitions or a known video playback performance, you can use this processor to determine if you are missing frames. For example, imagine two 3x3 images
2 2 2           1 1 1
2 2 2     &    1 1 1
2 2 2           1 1 1
The average difference between these frames is 1. A media reference stream is not used with this processor when it runs. However, and I always recommend doing this for unreferenced tests, a data reference can be created from a reference stream to compare with future tests results. The data reference is a calcuated set of metrics that corresponds with a given PQA acquisition/processes or a set thereof.
Here is the process I would take for unreferenced tests.
Take a reference video that you know plays back properly.
Set that you wish to create a data reference, acquire that video/audio stream and perform and activate the desired processors.
Now, select that you would like to use that data reference for future acquisitions.
Perform new acquisitions using the same processors and observe the new results stream
You will see your results stream now centred at zero according to the following calculation (Test Results - Reference Results) / Reference Results [Relative Difference]
If you see any major deviations, this is a probably cause for a concern, in our case, for dropped frames
Let's continue this discussion in the following location:
PQA Help
http://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-VideoMASTER-and-NI/PQA-Help/m-p/2305242/
Thank you.
Sincerely,
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