Hackintosh for Final Cut

[c0d3_z3r0]

I built a hackintosh because I needed more power than my Macbook Pro had.

The hackintosh is running very well.

My only problem is that when I use Final Cut Express 4 and I play the video from the time line it shows me a warning about dropping frames and to set it to Safe RT and lower the playback quality, I did and it still drops frames.

The weird thing is that if I reboot and continue working it doesn't drop frames, it starts dropping frames after the computer has been on for a couple hours.

What should I do?

(Other than reboot when it drops frames)

 

The specs are on my sig.

 

I looked everywhere and I couldn't find a solution.

[Lanceomni]

I built a hackintosh because I needed more power than my Macbook Pro had.

The hackintosh is running very well.

My only problem is that when I use Final Cut Express 4 and I play the video from the time line it shows me a warning about dropping frames and to set it to Safe RT and lower the playback quality, I did and it still drops frames.

The weird thing is that if I reboot and continue working it doesn't drop frames, it starts dropping frames after the computer has been on for a couple hours.

What should I do?

(Other than reboot when it drops frames)

 

The specs are on my sig.

 

I looked everywhere and I couldn't find a solution.

 

Are you rendering before playing? If you are working with video which is compressed you may want to look into converting to an uncompressed format as this will greatly reduce render times and avoid some dropped frames.

[c0d3_z3r0]

I use the Render All - Both audio and video setting to render and it still has the dropped frames.

 

I captured vhs tapes on windows and transcoded them to dv on VisualHub with the (ready for final cut) setting to work in Final Cut.

 

Also on that dropped frames message it also said something about the hdd speed.

I'm using a separate WD Black 640 GB for my scratch disk and the drive also contains the dv files I encoded with VisualHub that I'm using with Final Cut to edit.

Is that a problem?

[Lanceomni]

I use the Render All - Both audio and video setting to render and it still has the dropped frames.

 

I captured vhs tapes on windows and transcoded them to dv on VisualHub with the (ready for final cut) setting to work in Final Cut.

 

Also on that dropped frames message it also said something about the hdd speed.

I'm using a separate WD Black 640 GB for my scratch disk and the drive also contains the dv files I encoded with VisualHub that I'm using with Final Cut to edit.

Is that a problem?

 

Not to the extent that it is causing dropped frames. Is the drive internal or an external. I remember getting dropped frames by having the preview window set too large on my 24" display but that was probably due to the fact I was on a slow G4 laptop.

[Beerkex'd]

Sounds like CPU/FSB timing issues to me.

 

Is your CPU speed and FSB recognized correctly?

[c0d3_z3r0]

Not to the extent that it is causing dropped frames. Is the drive internal or an external. I remember getting dropped frames by having the preview window set too large on my 24" display but that was probably due to the fact I was on a slow G4 laptop.

It's an internal plugged into the mobo, Is having the preview window at 100% ok or should I make it smaller?

I'm also running on a 24" Monitor.

 

Sounds like CPU/FSB timing issues to me.

 

Is your CPU speed and FSB recognized correctly?

 

Yeah, The speed shows up correctly on the system profiler, and the speed is also correct on cpu-x.

 

 

EDIT: I think I might have found the solution to this problem, Whenever I turn my monitor off and then turn it back on the image on the monitor is frozen for a sec and then it shows a solid blue screen like if it was detecting a display and it comes back with no problem.

I was editing on Final Cut and It started dropping frames (I'm using Unlimited RT when I tried this), So I paused playback and turned off my monitor and then back on again, resumed play of the video and it didn't drop frames again, I guess it's just software that's the problem, the drivers for the video card I'm thinking, I didn't have this problem on my MBP because the hardware and software were made to work in that same configuration from the start.

[anthosT]

It's an internal plugged into the mobo, Is having the preview window at 100% ok or should I make it smaller?

I'm also running on a 24" Monitor.

 

 

 

Yeah, The speed shows up correctly on the system profiler, and the speed is also correct on cpu-x.

 

 

EDIT: I think I might have found the solution to this problem, Whenever I turn my monitor off and then turn it back on the image on the monitor is frozen for a sec and then it shows a solid blue screen like if it was detecting a display and it comes back with no problem.

I was editing on Final Cut and It started dropping frames (I'm using Unlimited RT when I tried this), So I paused playback and turned off my monitor and then back on again, resumed play of the video and it didn't drop frames again, I guess it's just software that's the problem, the drivers for the video card I'm thinking, I didn't have this problem on my MBP because the hardware and software were made to work in that same configuration from the start.

 

 

Hi c0d3_z3r0!

But are you running FC on a laptop?

I do not understand from your signature...

I am trying to get information on which laptop is fully compaticle with 0sx86 Leopard in order to run Final Cut on it, even if in Low Res.

If someone of you knows something about this, please let me know.

A macbook pro is too much expensive, and I need a portable editing station hackintsoh laptop...

 

thanks,

Anthos