FCP 5.0 Woes!

[Gunner Jones]

Ooooh. This sounds ugly.

If you have not tried trashing prefs, do that first. If Batch Capture does not behave normally after reboothing, I’d suggest reinstalling FCP.

Finally, if these two things don’t work, reinstall Tiger using Erase and Install. Then reinstall FCP 5. Update QT to 7.0.1.

O&O-Gunner Productions
FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Uwe Klimmeck]

Had one strange thing a few days ago.
Same as Wayne, but 10bit material and DecklinkPro. FC5 didn’t do anything when I tried to batch-capure a logged clip. Quitting FCP didn’t help, but a restart did.
So I did not take much care ’cause it worked from then on.
But maybe we should have an eye on it ?

Greetings
Uwe

FC Studio / DLpro / SDconnect / Dual 2.7 / Dual 1.4 / Dual iPod / http://www.fcpmunich.com

[Mark Maness]

I’ve tried it and Batch Capture opens the Log & Capture window then opens the Batch Capture dialog box and then it all closes. That’s all it does.

[Mark Maness]

Oh yes… That works just fine. But you’ll haave to capture it using DVCPRO50 because there isn’t any IMX support in FCP 4.5. The footage looks great.

My whole beef is that I spent $699 for the FCS Upgrade from FCP 4.5 and then we spent the $495 with Telestream for the MXF Import plugin so that we didn’t have to digitize anymore. You know, save time. Obvisiously, it doesn’t mean save money. Myself and a co-worker went out to NAB and talked directly with Telestream and Apple. Apple failed to mention that IMX support only applies to IMX 50 as native and compatible with 40 and 30 m/bits. And here’s the real kicker… It only works with Mirror Door G4s and G5. Not the QuickSilver 2002 model that I have because the bus speed is too slow. But Apple will still say that it works with all G4s.

So my advice to you. If you have a QuickSilver 2002 G4, you’d better upgrade it to a G5 before upgrading to FCP 5.0 or FCS, otherwise the software upgrade is absolutely no going to benefit you at all. Well, except for Soundtrack Pro. So until I can upgrade the computer, I’ll have to Log & Capture and Batch Digitize in DVCPRO50 all the IMX 40 footage that I have (which is about 13 shows) until I reach a show that will be shot in IMX 50. So much for convience…

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions