• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP 5.0 on Intel Macbook Pro

  Posted by Donnierae on September 28, 2006 at 3:58 pm

  hi, need some confirmaton from you pros.

  System: MacBook Pro, Duo Core, 2GHZ, 2G RAM, x1600 Radeon, FCP 5.0 installed on internal drive. I installed FCP 5 on my system from my friend’s disks so that I could learn the program. I purchased an excellent tutorial book FCP 5 by Diana Weynand from the Apple Pro Training Series. I’ve been doing the tutorial, learning the program, and I fully intend on purchasing the Intel latest Universal version of FCP as I continue. I’m just in learning mode now and I’ve come across a problem, but I suspect it’s related to my Intel system running a non-universal code version of FCP 5.0

  The tutorial comes with video footage and sequences for learning. I’m at the video transistions section now and I keep getting the “dropped frame rate” window appearing any time the playhead comes to a cross-dissolve I’ve made in the timeline. I’ve adjusted all the RT settings as per their suggestions, and it will play only in the lowest quality settings. Audio cross-fades are no problem. Just video effects are the problem. I can playback video that they’ve rendered and put onto the disk for me to see, but if I create the effect the playhead stops a few frames into the effect. Same with any other effect that takes speed.

  Do you think this is because I’m using 5.0 on an Intel machine and I need 5.1.2 to process properly?
  Or could this be something to do with the bus speed of the internal drive requiring that I get an external drive?

  Thanks for thinking about this.
  Cheers.
  Don

  Don Dewar
  VideoBOOST! Communications Group
  Vancouver, BC

  Jerry Hofmann replied 19 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jeff Carpenter

  September 28, 2006 at 4:10 pm

  According to Apple 5.0 doesn’t work at all on Intel Macs. So the fact that you have it working at all is above and beyond anything they’ve promised. I’m certain that any problems you have are related to that. Once you get 5.1 you should be fine, it’s been perfecly fine on my Macbook Pro.
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  Jerry Hofmann

  September 28, 2006 at 4:12 pm

  Could be a combo of both… but in any event, you’re use of the software is illegal. I’d buy that software right now… and buy another drive to store media on.

  Jerry

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