FCP7 with Mavericks

[Brad Geiszler]

I just installed Mavericks on my system (running FCP 7) and the audio playback plays out if sync. I have a black magic Intensity Pro that I run through my surround sound system. Before I upgraded, playback was fine using this setup. The clips are converted from a Canon 7D to ProRes LT. The sequence is about 20 mins long. I never upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7. Instead I upgraded directly to 10.9. My computer specs are below. Does anyone know how to fix this or what might be causing this playback problem?

MacPro Dual 6 core 2.93Ghz
32 Gb Ram
Ati Radeon 5870 HD
Intensity Pro
Nvidia Quadro K5000

Cheers,

Brad

[Arya Boustani]

Hi there,

Well, just some typical tech formula:

– try a new session, throw a pro res footage in the time line and play back. Is it still out of sync?
– try a new session with NTSC setup with NTSC footage. Is it still out of sync?

If any of those play in sync, I imagine you need to wait for Apple to upgrade the OS. You can report it to them. I just did that for Premiere Pro not picking up my graphic card Open CL in the settings.

If BM hardware had a driver installed previously, then it could be the case that the driver is not streamlined with Mavericks.

Good luck.

[Roli Rivelino]

I imagine that Apple has absolutely no incentive whatsoever to make the new system work with what is essentially defunct software. They kicked us editors in the nuts once by discontinuing it and replacing it with a child’s toy, so why would they bother to fix any issues?

Sorry more an observation than an answer to the original question.

https://www.rolirivelino.com/

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Christopher S. johnson]

Sync fixed! New AJA driver 10.4.9. Maybe BM too???
Some have wanted to know. It took a couple of tries at driver updates from AJA, but I can finally say that Final Cut Pro 7, on Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9), with an AJA capture & monitoring card (io XT for me) for feeding your client monitor, is feeling reliable after testing. There were some crazy lip sync issues at first, but the new drivers from AJA (10.4.9) fixed it. So like the famous Monty Python line goes, “not dead yet!”
Maybe Blackmagic has a fixed driver too?

-Christopher

[Ron Colberg]

I just purchased a new MacBookPro with Maverick’s OS. I am trying to install my Final Cut 7 application. There is a little check box next to Final Cut Pro on the install page, but I cannot check it. All of the other boxes are checked. The disk I have in is the install disk for my upgrade from Version 6. My new laptop will have nothing to do with it (I guess that should have been obvious to me). I am moving on to Premiere and, maybe, FCPX, but I love FCP7 and would like to keep using it on my spiffy new computer. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Ron Colberg

[Andrew Johnstone]

I wandered into an Apple store yesterday and my first Q to one of the apparent Geniuses on hand was “will Mavericks run FCP7”?

I am in the middle of transferring my edit work flow to Premiere Pro (which feels very familiar to any FCP7 users BTW) but needless to say I have an archive stuffed with FCP& project that I want to be sure will still be accessible through any future upgrades.

There are several options here – the first is to keep an old machine capable of opening FCP7 projects knocking about in my office just in case.This is not a preferred option! The second is to export EDLs or some such into a format that will allow PP to re-create the edits in their entirety, but I am not sure that this is possible or even what to do – although I rough-cut (and even final cut) my own films I am not a post workflow specialist. Help on this would be appreciated.

FCP7 remains a very important tool to me. As I have mentioned on other threads, all the content that I produce for BBC still requires a FCP7 workflow, so dumping FCP7 is not an option at the moment. But future proofing my archive is important.

Thanks for any help.

Andy Johnstone
Wild Dog Limited
film & multimedia production
http://www.wilddogworld.com