If the problem persists later on, but to a lesser degree, we'll find an external hard drive with an eSATA connection, connect it to the tower via eSATA, and boot the system off of that drive instead.
#Final cut pro 7 10.7 pro#
Something about having two slower connections seemed to bog Final Cut Pro down to nothing but pinwheels, and as soon as we switched out the firewire 800 cable for an eSATA cable, the problem went away. For the external hard drive storing our media, we switched the firewire 800 cable out for an eSATA cable (which has a faster connection). Our two external hard drives involved in this operation-the system drive we boot off of and the external hard drive that stores all our media-were both connected to the computer via firewire 800. In case anyone in the future has this problem, we've found a solution that works. My sequence settings look like this, which works brilliantly with my footage (no render bars-green, red, or otherwise):Īny help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. I'm editing EX-1 footage, and my Easy Setup looks like this: The computer's processor is 2x3.2 GHZ Quat-Core Intel Xeon, memory is 8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-Dimm. Not sure if it's of any help, but here's some additional info: (7) Broke my larger sequence into many more tiny sequences of about five minutes each (and man, it takes forever to edit this way, and doesn't help that much). (5) Checked to make sure I wasn't editing in some silly format like h.264 (5) Repaired disk permissions, verified disks, etc. (3) Rebooted the whole computer in safe mode (holding down the Shift key) I've searched multiple on-line forums, and have already tried the following:
#Final cut pro 7 10.7 mac#
when I edit the project on a Macbook laptop, the project works fine, despite the fact that this Mac is immensely more powerful than the Macbook. The problem is specific to my Mac computer. I am editing a project in Final Cut 7.0.3, and about every 5-10 minutes I have to stop editing for 1-3 minutes while the pinwheel of death spins 'round and 'round.