[MacDV] Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem

[Jim Hebert Photography]

I had a similar problem and had the external drive go out. I was the board
in the drive. I bought an enclosure kit at comp usa and installed my old
hard drive. Works just fine, actually better, and easy to do. Jim

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Subject: [MacDV] Bizarre Final Cut Pro Problem


Hoping one of you experts can help.

Using an Emac 10.2.8, older Firewire 120GB hard drive, FCP 4.1, Canon
XM1 (Like GL1)

Up until Monday, I had no problem downloading dv to either the Emac or
a couple older external 120GB firewire hard drives.

Now - if I download 6 minutes or more to an external, I take the risk
of having the computer's color wheel spin forever.  What is happening
is that every so often the 900MB or so clip is downloaded as a 65 - 98
GB clip and overloads my system.  Each time the external hard drive is
left with 1.43GB.  I erased this external drive only 7 to 10 days ago,
and am fairly certain it worked for downloading before Monday.  Then I
try force quit after force quit which usually but not always works.
After restart, I then trash the massive clip and start again but waste
huge amounts of time.  It even happened with a shorter 4 minute clip
once.

The Emac seems to run fine otherwise except slower after each of these
incidents.

Thanks for any suggestions
Lynn


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