• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  That Damn Color Ball!! – Crash

  Posted by António Carvalho on February 20, 2008 at 5:17 pm

  Recently, when i want to play a video in the timeline, i get the color ball, and it stays there until i force quit.
  The system works fine, only Final Cut Pro not responding.

  I’m working on a project timeline with this settings:
  HDTV 1080i(16:9)
  Square
  Upper Odd Fields
  Pal
  Apple ProRes Codec (HQ)

  My system info:
  Mac OS Tiger
  2×3 GHZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  9GB 667 MHZ DDR2 FB-DIMM Memory
  All software updated

  Hardware:
  Connected via PCI Extreme 4LANE to a BlackMagic Multibridge Extreme
  Firmware and software with latest updates

  If someone has an ideia on this, i’d appreciate the help

  Mark Maness replied 18 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Rainer Wirth

  February 20, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  Try repair your permissions in the Disc programm of your system.

  Rainer
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  Mark Maness

  February 20, 2008 at 8:35 pm

  I would also suggest that you remove the one gig of Apple memory bringing your total to 8 gig. FCP works best in multiples of 4 (and works with 2 gig, too). So you can have it configured to 2 gig, 4 gig, 8 gig, 16 gig. This is the specs from Apple and I haven’t had a single issue with this.

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  Jeremy Garchow

  February 20, 2008 at 9:38 pm

  [Wayne Carey] “FCP works best in multiples of 4 (and works with 2 gig, too). So you can have it configured to 2 gig, 4 gig, 8 gig, 16 gig. This is the specs from Apple and I haven’t had a single issue with this.”

  Here’s the white paper on that:

  https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304492

  Also, what kind of drives are you playing back from?
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  Mark Maness

  February 20, 2008 at 10:46 pm

  Good catch, Jeremy!

  I was going to paste that in and got side tracked while editing…

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  Schazam Productions
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