Final Cut 7, Snow Leopard, and XDCAM…..is it safe yet?

[Tim Allison]

No, it is NOT beating a dead horse, and I wish I could give you an authoritative answer. But we decided NOT to go to Snow Leopard at this time. On the OS, we’re at 10.5.8 and we did go all the way up to 7.0.1 on Final Cut. Even where we are, we’re having some minor problems with our F75 decks; they mount the XDCAM disks, but that disk does NOT show up on the desktop. Everything else about it seems to work.

[Tim Allison]

Clark….you have to use XDCAM Transfer, but that hasn’t been a problem for us. I’ve never hd any problems with it. Log and Capture within FCP does not work.

[Chris Sinclair]

if your discs don’t mount, pop them in the U1, and using the U1 Utility software, click “disc” then “format” and it will update the disc from it’s old database structure it shipped with and change it to the updated version that your decks are probably running. Then it will mount to the desktop provided that you’re deck is plugged in (PC REMOTE should be displayed on the deck). You can’t mount a disc using HDSDI, in case. Has to be firewire.

hope that helps.
Chris.