2 Technical Issues with Final Cut Pro 7

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2 Technical Issues with Final Cut Pro 7

Rafael Amador replied 15 years ago 6 Members · 24 Replies

Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 12:50 am

Thanks, Jeff.

This is the 49th clip I’ve tried to edit in FCP7 of this sort and only the 2nd or 3rd that’s had the issue. The rest have worked swimmingly on a timeline that also has tracks from my Canon 7D.

I just restarted the computer and, as in the previous 1-2 cases, it resolved the issue. For now…

Very strange…

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Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 12:57 am

Well, I spoke too soon. It started again.

Notice on the screenshot that the clip in question only fills a portion of the canvas, but when the red flash occurs, it covers the entire canvas.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

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Jeff Greenberg
May 9, 2011 at 12:59 am

Yeah, I don’t think that ProRes was ever checked for those frame sizes. Try Photo-Jpeg @100% or uncompressed and I bet it goes away.

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Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 1:10 am

Apple Photo JPEG did the trick.

How did you know that, genius?? 😉

Seriously, these codecs confuse the hell out of me. I’d have had no idea that it might be a codec problem and, even if I had somehow deduced that, I’d have had absolutely no idea which one to try next. I’d have probably tried the other APR codecs next, I suppose, just because those are the only ones I’ve ever used and have always worked well.

Thoughts?

THANKS!

🙂

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Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 1:12 am

ARGHHH!!!

I SPOKE TO SOON!

I left FCP to write that post, went back, and the red flashes of doom were back!

What the deuce???

Ran through the timeline unrendered, everything was fine. Rendered it, everything was fine. Went to Safari and returned, all hell had broken loose.

🙁

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Jeff Greenberg
May 9, 2011 at 1:21 am

Lol and I thought I was going to sleep tonight.

Yeah, I’m suggesting that you transcode all your 320×240 material to a different codec than ProRes. I suspect – merely suspect- that prores was tested at SD 720×480 and higher.

When you see that red screen, something’s not right in the video pipeline.

I did some quick searching around…and found this Fix my red screen.

I’m not endorsing it, or know about it. I suspect that the video pipeline/driver is screwy since 10.6.6 – that apple has the wrong nVidia driver (I’m not personally seeing it, because I’m running later driver for CUDA stuff from NVidia.)

I was going to point you to the direct link on nVidia’s web site, but hell, just try that Fix my red Flash app and let us know.

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Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 1:25 am

Ummm… OK, man… I’m reading a bit about the driver update on the NVIDIA site.

My thesis defense is tomorrow, so if this F’s up my system, I’m going to sic the Evil Video Monkey on you!

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Jeff Greenberg
May 9, 2011 at 1:26 am

If it screws up your system, I’ll personally get on the phone tonight and offer to help. No charge.
(alternatively, I’ll give your thesis defense)

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Stretch Ledford
May 9, 2011 at 1:30 am

Jeff, can you check this link? The fine print makes me a bit nervous.

https://www.nvidia.com/object/quadro-macosx-256.01.00f03v7-driver.html

To wit: “The NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for Mac requires Mac OS X v10.6.5 or newer to run, however because OS X does not yet have native support for the Quadro 4000 for Mac, users must install this driver before installing the hardware.”

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Jeff Greenberg
May 9, 2011 at 1:39 am

Ok, I think there are two parts here.

First, I think what’s wrong is the cuda drivers in 10.6.6/7

I don’t know what the FIX MY RED FLASH thing does (I’m not able to go test it tonight…)

Basically, apple updates the drivers with the OS. Meaning you could wait months for an update for a graphic card.

You should figure out what graphic card is in your system and grab the latest drivers. You may want to also grab the current CUDA driver as well.

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
I downloaded the cuda driver for mac.
Then, I downloaded the driver for my card (MBP, 9600M) by checking the driver. (which you might not have to do.)

Last – no first, I’d suggest downloading the COMBO updater from apples site – 10.6.6 or 10.6.7 because reinstalling the COMBO update sometimes repairs odd shit.

Best,

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