More dropping frames troubleshooting in FCP

By Greg Pak

Today I frustrated the heck out of myself trying to output my feature "Robot Stories" from Final Cut Pro to tape using my 533 MHz dual processor G4. I'd recently installed new drives and reinstalled all my software -- and the sucker kept interrupting the output with dropped frames.

Eventually I figured it all out -- and it was all stuff I should have known. I turned off file sharing. I disconnected from the internet. And I set the hard drive to never sleep. And it finally worked.