FCP 10.0.5 fixes found

[Mark Dobson]

[T. Payton] “Try creating a new user account in Lion. See if it still has a problem with the new user account.”

Yup – still got the problem with new user account – so it’s a bit of mystery.

Fortunately I can use the Digital Color Meter to get my RGB values and manually insert them.

[T. Payton]

Mark,

That narrows it down to a system level problem.

I would try to do a Lion “Restore Install”. Boot up and hold Command R, when the recovering menu comes up choose to reinstall Lion. Make sure you don’t erase your disk just install over your current. It will do its thing for quite a while (like a good hour, it will download Lion from Apple) and replace the core system components and leave all your data in tact.

Oh before you do that I would ensure you have a good time machine backup of your Mac.

Here is some more info:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/18730/how-can-i-reinstall-mac-os-x-lion-without-erasing-data

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Mark Dobson]

Hi T,

Well it seems a bit like using a sledgehammer to open a nut but having backed everything up I’m going to give it a go.

I’m a big fan of the App store as it makes jobs like this so much easier.

I’ll let you know how it goes.

Incidentally do you have any thoughts about the advantages of installing SSDrives on a Mac Pro. With the MacPro replacement probably at least a year away it would be great to have a more responsive machine.

Well it would be great to have FCPX working faster!

Thanks

[T. Payton]

If the color picker is busted, I think something else must be broken also but why don’t we try this. Shoot me an email at my name creative cow name without the period or space at onecreative and then not dot com but dot net.

Perhaps i can just sent you replacements for the color picker and the nut will be cracked much faster.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Steve Connor]

[Mark Dobson] “Incidentally do you have any thoughts about the advantages of installing SSDrives on a Mac Pro. With the MacPro replacement probably at least a year away it would be great to have a more responsive machine.
“

I’d be interested in some thoughts about that as well.

Steve Connor
“The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel”
Adrenalin Television

[T. Payton]

I don’t have any experience with SSDs in my MacPro. But I’ve seen some other guys on the cow talk about it. Check this out from OWC, this is out of control for a MacPro. 600MB+/Sec.:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe/OWC/Mercury_Accelsior/RAID

A blurb on BareFeets about it:

https://www.barefeats.com/hard150.html

From my experience, speeding up FCP X seems all about the GPU. I have a rather inexpensive 5770 in my 2006 MacPro and frankly it is working just dandy in FCP X.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jeremy Garchow]

SSDs will increase your boot time if that’s important to you.

It will increase your file transfer time and if you put a couple of them together, it will increase your multiple stream count. It will not, however, increase any CPU cycles.

Jeremy

[Dave Jenkins]

I couldn’t open projects in 10.0.4 & 10.0.5 fixed that!!!

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