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update to 6.0.4?
Our production house is currently running 10.4.11 on Mac Pros. Our FCP is either 6.0 or 6.0.1, depending on which machine you set at. We have ten edit bays connected to an XSAN running 1.1. We have been having several issues since we installed our system about 8 months ago (migrated from an Avid workflow to FCP workflow).
Some of our issues include repeated FC crashes, render files going offline, edit to tape crashing/shutting down FC, etc. We are getting pretty good at trashing preferences.
All of our machines have the following spec:
Mac Pro dual quad 3.0GHZ Xeon
8 GB Ram
512 MB Radeon 1900Because of the issues we have been having, we have been skeptical about updating as to not introduce additional problems to the system. However, if the updates will address many/most of our current issues without introducing others, more hostile issues, it would be worth the update.
Any advice from the COW experts?
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My system is quite different from yours so I can’t really give advice. But I can tell you that I was getting LOTS of crashes, kernel panics, etc. on my new Octocore. I spent hours with AppleCare and ended up zeroing out the hard drive and building up from scratch last week. I re-built with the latest OS update; ditto for FCP and QuickTime. I’ve done only limited work on the system since then but at least it’s been entirely stable.
Clearly there was some nefariously broken code somewhere deep down there. I have no idea if your problem source is the same, of course. Zeroing out is a real time-consuming pain but it ended up solving — I hope — my problem. And, in reference to your real question: so far so good with 6.0.4 for me.
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I don’t know about XSAN, but other than that, going from 6.0.0 to 6.0.4
will address many of your issues, at least it has for me. 6.0.0 was trouble especially.I’m running the latest everything as of two weeks ago and have not seen any issues.
OS 10.5.4. FCP 6.0.4, Quicktime 7.5. KONA 3 drivers 5.1, all good here.
You should check with people who know XSAN to see if it’s ready for the updates
and update XSAN too if called for.Dan
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FCP 6.0.1 loses rendere files and updating FCP will fix that. 6.0.1 was not a very good release.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306068
What kind of RAM do you have and it is setup properly? Follow this for instructions:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304492
Do you have capture cards?
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Good questions, Jeremy.
I was going to ask the same thing. Let me add (or re-iterate), look into your XSAN software and make sure that it is up to date.
You might just want to look at upgrading your XSAN software to the 2.0 version. I have heard of all kinds of horror stories with people using the XSAN in their systems. You need a dedicated person to maintain it properly. BUT… once it is configured fro your facility, it should be great!
Now, concerning your issues with FCP. Version 6.04 solved alot of these issues, but, as you know there is always going to be bugs with ANY software. The trick is to minimize them.
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