Ed Fiebke
October 7th, 2009, 07:03 AM
Hello -
I've encountered a strange happening when editing the video with Final Cut Pro (version 6.06). A couple of times yesterday, when editing a Standard Definition video, my "workhorse" hard disk drive was showing that it had some minor errors that needed to get fixed when I used the Disk Utility program. The repairs were quickly fixed, thankfully. But it happened TWICE yesterday.
I have an older Mac Pro computer, purchased 2+ years ago. It has the original system drive. However, a few months ago, I "upgraded" the three other hard disk drives to 1 TB's. All three drives are SATA WD Cavalier Black drives by Western Digital with 32 MB cache.
My Intel-Mac computer: Xeon 2.66 (Quad); 8 GB's RAM; 4 Hard Disk Drives, 1st = 250 GB's, the other three are 1 TB's in size; MOTU 2408 MK3 audio for audio; NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT for video. I'm still using the Leopard 10.5.8 operating system.
To give a brief description of my drives, Drive 1, of course, is the system drive; drive 2 is my instrumental software drive where I house various instrumental libraries; drive 3 tends to be my "project drive" where I put audio and video files to be edited; and drive 4 (at present) is my rendering/cache drive. With regards to Final Cut Pro, I've designated the 4th drive to do the temporary rendered and cache files.
To give a brief description of what's going on, basically I noticed that the temporary rendering process was acting kind of sluggish when using Final Cut Pro. So, I activated the Disk Utility program which I then found out that Drive 3 had some "minor errors" that needed repair. (Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact nature of the error, but it had something to do with head file name of the drive, or something like that.) Again, this happened TWICE yesterday.
One of the things that I was doing yesterday was going in and out of the LIVE TYPE program, which I use to create titles. I'd create and render a 10 or 15 second title then go right into Final Cut Pro and add those newly created files to the sequence.
By the way, I use the Standard Definition QuickTime files during the recording and editing process.
One more thing to add. This problem is not new. I've had "minor" disk errors in the past with older drives and "older" versions of Leopard. In fact, I lost the original Drive 3 (and a whole lot of unbacked-up projects). I think that drive was just old. But I did receive the occasional and similar disk errors on that drive.
Finally. . . with the exception of not purchasing the Final Cut Studio upgrade and the upgrade to Snow Leopard yet, everything is updated. This includes the QuickTime program and all support programs for the "Pro Applications".
Any ideas to what may be happening? Is there anything that I should be doing to help prevent these "minor disk errors"?? Although I've been doing this for a long time as a hobbyist, I am NOT an expert video recorder/editor.
Thank you in advance for your time and thoughtful comments/suggestions.
Ted
I've encountered a strange happening when editing the video with Final Cut Pro (version 6.06). A couple of times yesterday, when editing a Standard Definition video, my "workhorse" hard disk drive was showing that it had some minor errors that needed to get fixed when I used the Disk Utility program. The repairs were quickly fixed, thankfully. But it happened TWICE yesterday.
I have an older Mac Pro computer, purchased 2+ years ago. It has the original system drive. However, a few months ago, I "upgraded" the three other hard disk drives to 1 TB's. All three drives are SATA WD Cavalier Black drives by Western Digital with 32 MB cache.
My Intel-Mac computer: Xeon 2.66 (Quad); 8 GB's RAM; 4 Hard Disk Drives, 1st = 250 GB's, the other three are 1 TB's in size; MOTU 2408 MK3 audio for audio; NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT for video. I'm still using the Leopard 10.5.8 operating system.
To give a brief description of my drives, Drive 1, of course, is the system drive; drive 2 is my instrumental software drive where I house various instrumental libraries; drive 3 tends to be my "project drive" where I put audio and video files to be edited; and drive 4 (at present) is my rendering/cache drive. With regards to Final Cut Pro, I've designated the 4th drive to do the temporary rendered and cache files.
To give a brief description of what's going on, basically I noticed that the temporary rendering process was acting kind of sluggish when using Final Cut Pro. So, I activated the Disk Utility program which I then found out that Drive 3 had some "minor errors" that needed repair. (Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact nature of the error, but it had something to do with head file name of the drive, or something like that.) Again, this happened TWICE yesterday.
One of the things that I was doing yesterday was going in and out of the LIVE TYPE program, which I use to create titles. I'd create and render a 10 or 15 second title then go right into Final Cut Pro and add those newly created files to the sequence.
By the way, I use the Standard Definition QuickTime files during the recording and editing process.
One more thing to add. This problem is not new. I've had "minor" disk errors in the past with older drives and "older" versions of Leopard. In fact, I lost the original Drive 3 (and a whole lot of unbacked-up projects). I think that drive was just old. But I did receive the occasional and similar disk errors on that drive.
Finally. . . with the exception of not purchasing the Final Cut Studio upgrade and the upgrade to Snow Leopard yet, everything is updated. This includes the QuickTime program and all support programs for the "Pro Applications".
Any ideas to what may be happening? Is there anything that I should be doing to help prevent these "minor disk errors"?? Although I've been doing this for a long time as a hobbyist, I am NOT an expert video recorder/editor.
Thank you in advance for your time and thoughtful comments/suggestions.
Ted