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Scott Barnhill · June 10th, 2009, 05:23 PM

Anyone else have a problem with their ext. drive ejecting itself in the middle of outputting a long movie?
I'm running a Mac Pro 8 core machine with FCS2, my movie is 90 min. Should I break up the sequence in to like 3 smaller ones and combined them in DVDSP? It takes forever in compressor to make the .m2v files for DVDSP. I'm using the 6mbs 90 minute DVD setting in compressor.

Everything is on an external drive (Seagate 750Gig) except the apps.

Any suggestions on work flow to this point?

Thanks

Robert Lane · June 10th, 2009, 05:59 PM

Take that machine and the drive to the Genius Bar at an Apple store. There's something very wrong with hardware communication for a drive to be "ejected", there's nothing in DVDSP that would cause that to occur. My guess is that there's something going on with the mainboard and only a tech can drill-down and find the problem.

Scott Barnhill · June 10th, 2009, 06:12 PM

well I just got home to check it again after outputting half the movie in compressor. This time the drive didn't disconnect but it only output the sound file ".ac3" and not the video".m2v".

Scott Barnhill · June 10th, 2009, 08:22 PM

I just posted out a 13 minute clip from the same FC timeline in compressor with the same settings and it worked fine. It seems that whenever I post more than a half hr I have problems.
Any suggestions?

Robert Lane · June 10th, 2009, 09:43 PM

The same advice applies, Scott. Either there's an issue with the mainboard (heat possibly) or you've got some corruption in software. Either way this behavior is so odd (never heard of it before) a trip to the Genius Bar is warranted.

Scott Barnhill · June 10th, 2009, 10:07 PM

got it....

Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a shot

June 10th, 2009, 05:23 PM	#1
Scott Barnhill Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego, Ca Posts: 31	External Drive Quits Anyone else have a problem with their ext. drive ejecting itself in the middle of outputting a long movie? I'm running a Mac Pro 8 core machine with FCS2, my movie is 90 min. Should I break up the sequence in to like 3 smaller ones and combined them in DVDSP? It takes forever in compressor to make the .m2v files for DVDSP. I'm using the 6mbs 90 minute DVD setting in compressor. Everything is on an external drive (Seagate 750Gig) except the apps. Any suggestions on work flow to this point? Thanks Last edited by Scott Barnhill; June 10th, 2009 at 08:23 PM.

June 10th, 2009, 05:59 PM	#2
Robert Lane Go Go Godzilla Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ USA Posts: 2,823 Images: 15	Take that machine and the drive to the Genius Bar at an Apple store. There's something very wrong with hardware communication for a drive to be "ejected", there's nothing in DVDSP that would cause that to occur. My guess is that there's something going on with the mainboard and only a tech can drill-down and find the problem.

June 10th, 2009, 06:12 PM	#3
Scott Barnhill Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego, Ca Posts: 31	well I just got home to check it again after outputting half the movie in compressor. This time the drive didn't disconnect but it only output the sound file ".ac3" and not the video".m2v".

June 10th, 2009, 08:22 PM	#4
Scott Barnhill Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego, Ca Posts: 31	I just posted out a 13 minute clip from the same FC timeline in compressor with the same settings and it worked fine. It seems that whenever I post more than a half hr I have problems. Any suggestions?

June 10th, 2009, 09:43 PM	#5
Robert Lane Go Go Godzilla Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Scottsdale, AZ USA Posts: 2,823 Images: 15	The same advice applies, Scott. Either there's an issue with the mainboard (heat possibly) or you've got some corruption in software. Either way this behavior is so odd (never heard of it before) a trip to the Genius Bar is warranted.

June 10th, 2009, 10:07 PM	#6
Scott Barnhill Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Diego, Ca Posts: 31	got it.... Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a shot