FCP 7 Voice Over freezes program with OSX Lion

[Sean Lander]

Also having the exact same issue. Funny because last night I recorded some voice overs with my Blue Snowball directly into the Timeline but today there is nothing I can do to stop FCP 7.03 from crashing. Even if I select a different source to the default (iSight) it crashes.

Let’s hope there is an update to Lion that fixes this behaviour.

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[Mark Chomiczewski]

Did you do anything since yesterday? Update anything? How long since upgrading to Lion where v.o worked?

Do you have FCPX installed as well? Same partition?

There must be some bullet to slay this thing….

Thanks

Mark

Mark

[Sean Lander]

Installed Lion the day it came out. Had no issues. Have also installed FCP X recently and have recorded voice overs in it just fine. Even today.
Yes they are on the same partition. Tried re-installing FCP and then added QT 7 as Lion deleted it. Still no good.

I have no idea what I did differently. Last night when I used it it crashed too but on relaunch all was fine. Today I can’t select anything other than default in the Tool without it hanging. Have ditched prefs etc. At a loss to figure it out, but I’ve wasted too much time on it already I need to get back to cutting.

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[Sean Lander]

One thing I did do was go to the Mac App Store and buy a little program called “SimplyRec” as looking at Audacity I kept thinking I’d been transported back in time by 10 years. Awful.

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[Mark Chomiczewski]

You’re talking about today after the v.o issues or in between the issues?

I just went into Soundtrack to do my v.o’s. I don’t have time to figure this thing out either. I hope Apple takes care of this issue. Seems like a Lion issue to me.

Cheers!

Mark

[Sean Lander]

Yeah today after issues. I got it to work but it isn’t pretty. Open Voice Over, Select your mic then quick as hell click in timeline. All is fine.
Make sure you switch back to whatever you had before when you close the tool otherwise next time you open it CRASH!

The other problem I’ve been having with Lion is iChat, I wonder if these problems could be related?
Anyway I’m happy with SimplyRec for now.

I’ve posted this problem on the Apple forums as well to see if anyone else is having similar issues

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[John Oselette]

I have had identical issues. I too have used my Blue Snowball for 3 years with no problems in Final Cut Pro.
It happens to me on my iMac as well as my MacBook Pro. Both of which have had OS X Lion recently installed.
Quick workaround I use is recording the VO in QT 7 and importing back into FCP as suggested in an earlier post.