Always stops while editing - showing a slade

Hi together,

Hopefully anyone can help me with that issue. I don't know what this can be.

While I'm editing my footage sometimes FCPX stop to work and showing me a grey slade in the preview screen. Don't know what I did in the last days. I only installed a full version of Filmconvert and deleted the preferences using the Preference Manager.

While FCPX stops I don't get the "ball of death" I can do everything in the software but there is no reaction anymore with the footage. When I wait several seconds or minutes or switch the projects I edit in, it starts to work again.

Very strange behavior in my eyes.

My footage is on a Software RAID0 (2x3TB Seagate, USB3, Dockingstation) using the DisK Manager of Apple.

Attached also a screenshot.

Thanks for the help!

Michael

Hello Michael,

Have you been able to work on this same project without any stalling before, or has it been happening since you started using this setup?

What is the format of the video you are editing?
Do you work with optimized media?
What are your Project settings?

-Ronny

he ronny,
thank you for reply.

the first 5 days were good...yesterday the problem starts....
I use footage from my 5D in h.264 transcoded into optimized media (HD). I let FCPX manage the media by its own (maybe there is the problem?).
I don't know why this behavior started. Totally no clue. Today I deleted the preference files again...and it worked for a while...

Michael,

When you say "I let FCPX manage media by its own", what do you mean by this?

On what drive is your Library stored? On the USB RAID or on your internal drive?

-Ronny

Its all on the USB RAID.

I mean that the original footage is in the library...not outside...(maybe it should?)

No, that wouldn't make a difference since you have optimized the media to ProRes. Optimized and Proxy media are always stored inside the Library (for now).

When this happens, is it only the timeline that you cannot play and view anymore or does it also affect skimming or playing clips in the Event?

-Ronny

As far I remember it affected the timeline and the clips in the event...but I have to check that again...

This is the screen shot I did yesterday...today I did't work long in FCPX. Tomorrow (its night in Europe) I will check what exactly stops to work.

Yep, way past midnight here ace well, so I'm off to bed.

But your screenshot shows exactly what I thought. You get this grey slate in the Viewer when your Project is selected (yellow line around the Project) in the Library Browser. I wish it would not do that, I have submitted feedback about this.

Anyway, this should go away as soon as you click inside the timeline or in a clip in the Event. Does this not happen?


-Ronny

ronny courtens wrote:
Anyway, this should go away as soon as you click inside the timeline or in a clip in the Event. Does this not happen?


-Ronny

No, nothing happens then. When I go over the footage with the skimmer in the timeline I only see the skimmer following my mouse movements, nothing else. Also the external drive is not responding. The status LED (read/write) is off. When I switch to another project (using the left/right arrows), wait a bit and switch back to the "broken" timeline it works again (also the HDD "wakes up").

So its late. Have a good night there

This has been reported by one of our editors as well. I haven't figured out why it's happening yet. Sometimes double clicking on the project that is selected will resolve the issue. If that doesn't do it then you have to do as you said and select a different project, wait, then select the offending project again.

Here is a screenshot of my system when a grey Slade started showing up in the preview window. Odd.

This problem popped up for me recently. As others have said, sometimes it can be cleared by clinking into the project, but that has been working less and less lately.

tg

Ok, after 4 hours editing today I had no problems with FCPX. Maybe cleaning the preferences helped. Lets have a look in the upcoming days.

Have a great weekend!
Michael

I have experienced this problem over and over again over the last few days of editing my first project with FCPX 10.1.1.

I've clearly narrowed down how and when it happens. Whenever make a selection in the primary timeline, and the delete the selection, the timeline gets stalled. The viewer shows a slate with the name of the current project, and nothing will make the timeline play again until I skim over the timeline with the mouse so that some piece of video is displayed. If I switch to another program and back again, that also solves the problem. It seems like some kind of odd bug, because I can't really see any benefit to it. Anyone have an idea why it might be happening? Could there be some kind of setting which enables/disables this behavior?

I have noticed this too and with some experimenting I managed to get around this by selecting "Show Event Viewer" in the "Window" menu.