• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP 5 and a Canon GL1: missing scripts

  Posted by Dustin Lee on July 7, 2009 at 4:19 pm

  Ok, I know this is a rather “un-rad” topic, but I can’t find the answer anywhere. Yes, I used the search function a lot before I posted 😉

  I recently bought an old copy of Final Cut Pro 5 off a friend when he went with another (cough* ppro *cough) software solution. I had grand plans of using it to play with some footage from a little Canon GL1 (I know, please keep the laughter to a minimum). Long story short, it can’t recognize the camera, therefore it can’t capture anything.

  Apple says that I need the ‘CMP Override’ and ‘DV Tuner 2’ scripts to get them to play nicely. They said to look in the disc’s Extras folder, but they’re not there at all. I only see files for the DVX 100, and a few other random files/folders.

  I’m starting to wonder that, since the camera is pretty old, they just don’t include the scripts for it anymore. I can’t find them on Apple’s site, either.

  Does anyone know where I can get these scripts?

  Dustin Lee replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Dominic Witherow

  July 15, 2009 at 3:14 pm

  You don’t need those scripts for FCP 5, only for FCP1. There are a number of potential reasons for this problem, so try these:

  1. reboot the computer
  2. plug your camera into your computer via firewire and switch it on in VCR mode
  3. open FCP
  4. make sure that your easy setup is ‘Firewire Basic’.
  5. try capturing

  If that doesn’t work, then you should locate your FCP preference file and delete it. The file is called “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist” and is located in your ‘preferences’ folder (there are usually 2 of these, one in your root ‘library’ directory and one in your user ‘library’ directory. FCP will start up again with the default settings, so you will have to reset scratch disks etc, but it usually fixes whatever is wrong with the app.

  Finally, you may have a Quicktime problem. Every time there is a QT update you run the risk of breaking FCP. In this case I suspect it isn’t that, as yours is a very common issue, usually fixed by the first two methods.

  I hope this helps?
  Dominic
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  Dustin Lee

  July 15, 2009 at 3:45 pm

  Thanks very much! I’ll try your suggestions out when I get home.
  Best wishes.

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