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Final Cut Pro 3 Bug
Howdy,
My new boss’ final cut pro 3 is on the fritz. Here is how he describes it:
The problem — it won’t play any of the digitized clips. When you try to play, the cursor gets stuck, and then at times jumps a few seconds forward, or just gets stuck completely. Same with new clips that I digitize off a tape.
Why I think it might be a virus? If you leave FCP on for a coupla days, a strange balloon with texts begins to crawl across the timeline. This computer is not connected on line, but a virus may have entered through imported media on a DVD/CD.He suggested reinstalling Final Cut, or perhaps even Mac OS 9.1.2
Please help!
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4 Replies
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[andandrewrew] “The problem — it won’t play any of the digitized clips. When you try to play, the cursor gets stuck, and then at times jumps a few seconds forward, or just gets stuck completely. Same with new clips that I digitize off a tape.”
Sounds like the hard drives are way too slow for the media.
[andandrewrew] “Why I think it might be a virus? If you leave FCP on for a coupla days, a strange balloon with texts begins to crawl across the timeline.”
That’s Bruce the Wonder Yak. He’s an easter egg that’s been in the application since day one. He’s not a virus, that’s normal to see him if you leave FCP on for a few days.
You really might want to think about upgrading. FCP 3 and Mac OS 9 are both dinosaurs today.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Actually, FCP 3.0.2 running in OS 9.2.2 with QT 5.0.6 is a legendary stable setup… Not the latest, but you knew that already.
The media drives have to be formatted Mac OS extended, and they must be fast enough… what are they? Firewire?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
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Thanks Jerry…
the internal media drive is HFS+, Mac OS Extended… it doesn’t say it’s “journaled” – might this be an issue?
Some media is also on the OWC Mercury external drive, connected via firewire.
Another reply to my post says that the hard drives are probably way too slow… should the boss forget about reinstalling Final Cut and/or Mac OS and just upgrade?
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Are viewer and canvas set to fit to window?
Did you trash your preferences?
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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