Any Positive Reports FC5 and Tiger???

[Jerry Witt]

I have a dual 2.5 G5 and got FCP Studio yesterday. My system had Panther installed, but after reading that Motion would take advantage of some of the newer features in Tiger, I decided to make the jump. I installed Tiger, Installed FCP Studio and two hours later (lots of discs) I launched FCP. I have no problems to report, but I only played around with footage already on the system.

I’ll be doing more this week and will report any problems.

[Tom Matthies]

New 2.3Ghz running Tiger. Installed FCP5 Production Suite. Called up a few projects and so far, so good. It’s a little weird though. On clips that are offline, the playback will stall with dropped frame warning while playing the red “off-line” screen. I don’t remember it doing that on the old systems. I’ll get the rest of the files transferred and hook up the Aja LA over the weekend and give it a good test. Hopefully all will be well. I’m keeping the old system on-line for the time being however.
Keep your fingers crossed! Film at eleven.
Tom

[Michael Horton]

For the benefit of those new to FCP and online forums that discuss it, you will find very few positive comments about Final Cut 5 here. It is just the way it is on forums dedicated to troubleshooting problems. People post here when they have problems, they usually don’t post here when they don’t have problems. So take all these “FCP 5 and Tiger Sucks” posts with a grain of salt and be cautious of what you believe, good or bad. Just read the manual carefully and you should be OK. Have a problem? Then count to ten before you post here and while you are counting, go back to the manual to see what step you may of missed.

Michael Horton
lafcpug
https://www.lafcpug.org

[Ric Christoferson]

Thanks Michael, I could not agree with you more.

In our business we only hear about it if there is a problem. If no problem we rarely hear anything.
No News is Good News…

I was hoping to get some feedback on success stories with FC5 on 10.3.9 and Tiger to help me deside about which OS to install on.

I’ve heard of several setups with Tiger and FC5 working O.K. – still a little early to feel comfortable.

Not being a patient person I went ahead and wiped the drive and did a clean install of Tiger, updated to 10.4.1, repaired permissions and then installed FC5 and repaired permissions again.

All is well. But as with all of us, I’ll be doing tests and trying out features in the weeks to come.

I’m got a simple 30 second spot due next week so that will be a great opportunity to do a test drive.

[Eda]

Having a great time on Tiger/FCP 5 here.

Did a clean install to a seperate partition (wiped first), and it seems much more stable than
previous versions.

I’ve spent that last several days doing multicam (sorry, multiclip) edits. After some initial
work flow problems, we are now getting better through put than from our Avids of about
the same age. For offline, this will revolutionize our workflow. I’ll let you know how the
online goes.

FWIW, this is on a MDD Dual 1.25 G4 with 1.5 G of RAM, using acient (i.e 2 year old) Raids.
I’m pretty psyched!

HTH,
eda

[Dave Jenkins]

So far so good, we did a clean install. Used compressor, seemed fine Motion is much faster. Telestream’s WMV plugin works in Compressor. Mastered to tape with AJA IO with beta driver no problem.

Dajen Productions
Santa Barbara, CA
G5 Dual 2 Gig – AJA IO & LA
Huge 1.2 Raid
FCP 5-OS X 10.4.1-QT 7

[Andy Edwards]

Unplugged all my firewire drives, SATA Array, AJO IO and went against the grain and upgraded Tiger ontop of Panther vs. clean install. I cloned my system drive with Super Duper first, so I have a back up to go back to if I really want to. Upgraded to 10.4.1 and repaired permissions. Installed FCP Studio Bundle. Repaired permissions. Opened up a DVCPRO HD project and got asked if I wanted to throw out all my previous render files for some new setting…caught me of guard an did not choose best setting…chose normal. The project played back fine on my monitor.

Opened up a AJA IO 8 Bit project file and it played back fine. Went to try out the new export audio to Sound track Pro. The project opened up fine. I attempted to try the new AJA IO monitoring in STP and got the spinng wheel of death. Had to force quit STP. read about the new beta drivers and downloaded and installed…..why not, what do I have to lose now 🙂 Installed the new drivers and deleted the FCP prefs and POA cache. Fired up FCP and exported the project to STP again. Its working now…yeah.

I have not put this system through a major battery of tests, but what I need in STP was my main goal. I’ll probably do a flush and fill in the next few weeks when I upgrade the system drive to a 250 gig SATA vs. the standard 160gig. For now, I’m playing with fire for the upgrade vs. clean install, but it is working. So there…..a positive report 🙂

system details
G5 dual 2 ghz
3 gigs ram
Tiger 10.4.1
FCP 5 Production Studio
AJA IO 2.0b1 beta drivers
Burly Box 1.2 TB SATA Array
Sonnet Tempo 4X4
Adaptec Firewire 8300 card
3 lacie 500 Firewire drives