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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
OT: Migration Assistant - Words of Wisdom? - 16 years ago
I'm about ready to transfer all my programs/settings from my older iMac to new iMac. I planning on using the Migration Assistant to move everything, particularly FCP, etc., to the new iMac (4gb ram, 1TB internal HD). I couldn't resist. It looked so darned cool!! Besides, the sales clerk told me I had to buy it after I licked the screen and drooled on the keyboard...... Any warnings or words oby CyWar - Café LA
Re: MacJanitor and Leopard - 16 years ago
Thanks, Scott I've been running the most current version of MacJanitor and I do the daily when I first start my iMac (before I do anything else). I was just wondering about it. I can see your point: it deals with the Unix operating system, not the OS.xx running on top of it.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Phony FireWire event - 16 years ago
Personally, I use the tinfoil as a little hat I wear...... you never know who's listening to your thoughts... Maybe the "American Community Survey" group?...by CyWar - Café LA
MacJanitor and Leopard - 16 years ago
Any concerns about using the current release of MacJanitor on Mac's running Leopard? I've been running it regularly using the "Daily" function, but am just wonder if it fully understands Leopard (or does that really not matter).by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
To Jude: Thanks for your suggestions. I ran 2 tests today of a 10 minute video. 1 with the 500GB drive directly attached via firewire 800 and 1 with the 500GB daisy-chained off the 1TB drive (attached directly to the FW800 port). My Auto Save Vault is on my boot drive. All my media files are on the 500GB drive, along with the project file (neat for ez backup). I did not notice any apprecby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
Thank you all for your comments. This new setup appears to perform better (faster) than my previous setup. All the media I'll be using for any project will all be on the 500GB drive. I'll keep the project files on my boot drive and also have set the Auto Save Vault to the boot drive. I've currently got about 150GB left on it from the original 250GB. I'll give it a good test sometime later thisby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
Thank you so much, Scott, for your suggestion. I just tried an small experiment with just the 500GB drive attached (not daisy-chained) and it appears that the render and export process is much faster. Since I don't work on FCP projects all the time, this seems the most viable solution. One other question: Is it OK to keep the FCP project file on the same drive as the scratch disk and media.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
Scott Taylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- "You could keep the 1TB out of the chain while editing, only hooking it up for archiving, if it concerns you. To Scott: You are saying that having all my media (my original clips/footage) for a project in a folder on the same drive I use as my scratch disk is an OK practice? If that is so, then my solution is reby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
Why not buy get an extra firewire port so both drives operate with maximum efficiency? From: stypes I am working on an iMac and not aware of any way to add an extra Firewire port. Is there such a method?by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
"Media"?? Are you referring to just the original clips/footage I am editing or are you also considering all the render files, etc., on the scratch disk as "media"? The 500GB drive is exclusively used as my scratch disk only. Is the fact that it is daisy-chained to the 1TB drive problematic? All my media (to me that is the original clips/footage I'm using for a project) iby CyWar - Café LA
Scratch Disk Setup Question - 16 years ago
Searched the group, but did not find a specific answer for this question: Several years back, when I first started editing with Premier Pro, the recommendation was that the scratch disk be on a different drive than where the program itself was installed. Does this hold true for FCP? I currently have a 1TB G-Tech G-Raid attached on the FW800 port of my iMac, with a 500GB G-Tech G-RAID daisy-by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Is Firewire 800 raid ok for HDV and DVCPro editing - 16 years ago
If I'm in the wrong pew in this church, tell me to leave... I have a 1TB G-RAID on my iMac FW800 port and then have a 500GB G-RAID daisy-chained to the 1TB drive. I use the 500GB strictly as the scratch disk for FCP and the 1TB as location for stored clips. I am using a Sony HD-SR1 to capture HD footage which I log and transfer via FCP from the camera to ProRes422 1920x1080 30p 48 kHz. My projby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Best way to record from cable TV. - 16 years ago
Take a look-see @ EyeTV for Mac. I just put a splitter on my TV cable, put one end into the EyeTV unit, stuck in a USB port in the back of my iMac and I have channels 2 through 99 that I can view and RECORD! Then I use it to output the recorded video into the format I want. I believe it also has a way of hooking to your VCR and/or DVD player and can also handle HiDef (apparently from a HiDef anteby CyWar - Café LA
Re: OT - soft rant... new chicklet keyboard - a few days forward - 16 years ago
I dumped the Apple keyboard and "mighty mouse" and installed a LogiTech S350 Laser Wireless keyboard with 2-button mouse (able to right-click without darned Control Key+click of the Mighty M). Am much happier with this keyboard, the feel and touch of it. Just my humble opinion, of course.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Got Leopard? Post your problems/joys/thoughts here - 16 years ago
Installed Leopard last night; had absolutely no install problems (took less than an hour). So far everything seems to working as should be. My projects are minimal, so storage is not a problem. After Leopard was installed, I turned on TimeMachine and backed up my entire 250GB internal system disk (had about 82GB and took about 45 minutes) to the G-Raid external on FireWire 400. Thanks goodnessby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Who is jumping into leapord?? - 16 years ago
Apple just sent me an email telling me my upgrade was shipped today. If the Gods really like me, FedEx may deliver it tomorrow at my office. Then I can spend a happy weekend upgrading (and, hopefully, not upchucking!). If all goes well, will report. If all goes wrong, I'll report anyway...by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Importing from hard drive type camera - 17 years ago
Hope this helps. I have a Sony HDR-SR1 30GB hard drive. If you plug the USB cable from the camera to the Mac, you should get a drive called "No Name" on your desktop. You can open that and drag the MPEG files directly to the desktop. The audio is buried in thte "transport stream". I use MPEG Streamclip to convert to a .mov file with audio which I can then import into FCP. Thisby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Migration to new iMac - 17 years ago
Thanks all. Will try the "Migration Assistant" first. If that dosen't work correctly, I'll restore the new iMac to its original condition and then manually copy/move my files and reinstall all the applications.by CyWar - Café LA
Migration to new iMac - 17 years ago
Couldn't resist. Bought the new iMac, 4GB RAM, 1TB harddrive, etc., etc. Apple's home office must love me! (Well, at least my credit card!) Am wondering if the "Migration Assistant" will move my current install of Final Cut Pro Studio to the new iMac or will I need to reinstall from the program disks? I'll be taking all my installed program off the old iMac and installing on the newby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Quicktime clip audio on Mac but not on PC - 17 years ago
Everything on the PC (WindowsXP) is working fine; QT does just fine now that I turned the audio on. Somehow something changed the audio drivers to another setting for a driver I don't have. Sometimes Windows Update makes odd changes to my configuration. Oy! I think I need an upgrade for my brain instead..... Thanks everyone.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: Quicktime clip audio on Mac but not on PC - 17 years ago
OK everyone, now I know I'm an idiot.....!!! Was just reading some other post about a client that was driving them nuts, claiming there was no audio on any of the PC's in her office when playing the DVD. Turned out she had the audio turned off on the PC's...... duh!!!! "Say what??!!!", said I..... went and checked and, sure enough, my audio was not turned on either..... Now they pby CyWar - Café LA
Quicktime clip audio on Mac but not on PC - 17 years ago
Dumb question, I know. But, when I make a QT clip from FCP, it plays just beautifully on my iMac (video and audio). However, when I copy the file to a CD or DVD and take to my office and copy to my PC (WindowsXP), the video plays just fine, but there is no audio...!!?? I've tried various export formats in FCP, but still get no audio at office. I'm sure I'm missing something here, but darned ifby CyWar - Café LA
Re: YEA! Success @ Last!! Sony HDR-SR1 AVCHD video into FCPS2 - 17 years ago
Michael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Show of hands. How many are working with this cam? > OK let me count. Uh...CyWar. Hmmm....need 50 more. OK, that's 3 of us.... only need 48 more.... ;-)by CyWar - Café LA
Re: FCPP / AG-HSC1U & AVCHD format - 17 years ago
matthewgoodfield Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi > > I have a sony HDR-SR7E > > It support AVCHD as well > > But when I connect my camecorder to my mac through > USB 2.0 , and open FCP2 6.01 > > I clikc on the log and tranfer windows , nothing > happen , I also selec the path where to find the > footage ,by CyWar - Café LA
Re: FCPP / AG-HSC1U & AVCHD format - 17 years ago
Not sure if this applies to your questions, but I play around with a Sony HDR-SR1 which records HD 1080i in the AVCHD format on an internal 30GB harddrive. When I plug the camera into my iMac with the USB2 cable and then open FCP, if I select "Log & Transfer" all the clips on my camera appear and I can capture them in FCP. It bring the AVCH footage into FCP as Apple ProRes 422 or Apby CyWar - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 Log and Transfer MPEG2 - 17 years ago
Sorry Victor. Again my apologies for thinking the post was about the HDR-SR1 and not the HDD DCR-SR42 (don't even know what that camera is). Just didn't read it correctly (jumped to a conclusion???). Sincerely hope I didn't mislead the party in the Spanish group asking the question.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 Log and Transfer MPEG2 - 17 years ago
My apologies. I read the first post incorrectly. Maybe need new glasses?? Sony HDD DCR-SR42 is the camera you were talking about. My post was regarding the Sony HDR-SR1 camera I've been playing with. Hope my post didn't mislead. Again, apologies.by CyWar - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 Log and Transfer MPEG2 - 17 years ago
Besides the USB port, the camera has A/V Out, Component Out and HDMI ports. I have the same camera and it appears it does not want to see or recognize the directory structure where the SD MPG files are recorded on the camera hard drive. If I plug the USB cable into the camera and my iMac and then use Log and Transfer it will automatically "see" the AVCHD footage (as far as I has discby CyWar - Café LA
Re: YEA! Success @ Last!! Sony HDR-SR1 AVCHD video into FCPS2 - 17 years ago
bkenwell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm trying to get a Sony HDR-SR1 to work with fcp > 6.0.1 with no luck. I'm getting an "invalid > directory structure" error when trying to add > clips to the log and transfer interface. I'm using > a macbook pro core duo2 with fcp 6.0.1 Do i need > to modify the directory of the sony drivby CyWar - Café LA
Re: Pro App Updates this afternoon - 17 years ago
Dave Hardy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also for folks requiring AVCHD, that's now > implemented throug Log & Transfer. > > Dave Thanks, Dave. This solved the frustrating problem with getting AVCHD video off the Sony HDR-SR1 camera to edit in FCPS2. Not the best buy I ever made, but now I can at least experiment with HD video. I "by CyWar - Café LA
