FinalCut Pro 5.1.2 - droped frames - MacBook Pro
Hello, every time I try to record from my Sony TRV900 DV camcorder via FireWire to my new MacBook Pro 17" (Core 2 Duo) FinalCut Pro 5.1.2 slows down and stops the recording and brings an error message: encountered dropped frames.
Same FireWire cable and camcorder works fine with FinalCut Pro 5.1.2 on my old Mac G4.
What can I do?
MacBook Pro 17" Mac OS X (10.4.8) FinalCut Pro 5.1.2
Welcome to the forums.
Are you capturing to an external drive that is NOT your main system drive? If you are capturing to your system drive, most likely you will encounter dropped frames. Your system drive is busy doing things like managing the system, so it will access system resources and stop the capture. Sometimes this happens a lot, sometimes very infrequently. But it is best not to capture to your system drive.
And while I would recommend a firewire drive, your computer has only one firewire bus and often this too leads to dropped frames, but not all the time. Happens for some, not for others. You can solve this by getting a PCIexpress firewire adapter to add a firewire bus, OR...the another option is to get a CalDigit eSATA drive and PCIexpress card.
Shane
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