Need help with Final Cut Pro 4

[ladyjazz]

Hello there,

I am just starting to learn to use this vast and amazing software...
I've done several hours of tutorials and now I'm trying to capture video to my computer but while I do so, the capturing stops and I get a pop up window that says " dropped frames have been detected"
I read something in the help menu that I should set the analogue data rate somewhere to 3 mb/sec, only I have no idea what that means nor do I know where to set this preference.:hmm:
If you have any clue what and where this might be , please help me out!

Thanks in advance!
Cheers

[Billy_Black]

Try defragging your HD that has the most space available and capture to it.

[ladyjazz]

Hey and thank you for your suggestion.
How do I go about doing this though?
Any advice?

[Billy_Black]

At least do a standard Windows defrag. Many will use a dedicated external firewire HD for their work.

Some thoughts here:

http://www.geniusdv.com/fcp-output-problems.php

http://www.geniusdv.com/final_cut_pro_courseware/finalcutpro_capturing.php

[ladyjazz]

Does that work for Mac OS X as well?

[Billy_Black]

The links are all MAC. Doesn't the MAC have a way to defragment the hard drives?

[ladyjazz]

Thanks so much, these tutorials actually helped. It was a questions of settings.
Thanks again, you saved the day :)